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News Release from: Accellera
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 December 2006
Unified Coverage Interoperability
Accellera has announced that its Board of Directors approved the formation of the new Unified Coverage Interoperability Technical Subcommittee (UCI TSC).
Accellera, the electronics industry organisation focused on electronic design automation (EDA) standards, has announced that its Board of Directors approved the formation of the new Unified Coverage Interoperability Technical Subcommittee (UCI TSC) The committee is charged with defining standards to enable sharing and analysis of coverage data generated by different tools during the verification process
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 8 Nov 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Coverage data is typically used during verification to determine if the verification goals have been met when using different tools and methodologies.
The growing complexity of designs now requires that coverage data be shared among different tools to achieve verification closure.
The UCI standard will provide a consistent way to quantify and share coverage data for today's and the next generation of EDA tools.
"Electronic designers need a common standard for measuring their verification coverage when using tools from multiple sources and suppliers," stated Shrenik Mehta, Accellera chair.
"Our new committee is chartered to define a standard way to quantify the coverage metrics across software simulators, hardware accelerators, symbolic simulators and formal tools".
The goals of the UCI-TSC include: *Defining standard coverage models for commonly used metrics, *Identifying interoperability requirements among various coverage sources, *Defining a standard that allows coverage data to be exchanged among different EDA suppliers' tools, *Defining standard formats for representing coverage data, *Encouraging user and EDA technology advancement for the next generation of coverage solutions.
The UCI standard will include terms and definitions of code and functional coverage metrics, data formats and an Application Programming Interface (API) specification.
UCI is open for all interested parties to participate.
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