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News Release from: Cadence Design Systems | Subject: Open Verification Methodology
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 February 2008
Open Verification Methodology is
enhanced
Distributed under the standard open-source Apache 2.0 licence, the OVM source code, usage examples and documentation may be downloaded free of charge from OVM World.
Cadence Design Systems and Mentor Graphics Corp have announced an enhanced release of the source-code library and user documentation for the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), the industry's first open, interoperable SystemVerilog verification methodology These enhancements are the result of feedback from the growing user community at the OVM World site
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 11 Jan 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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To further support these users, Mentor Graphics and Cadence - joint developers of the OVM - are launching a series of worldwide activities.
Distributed under the standard open-source Apache 2.0 licence, the OVM source code, usage examples and documentation may be downloaded free of charge from OVM World.
In its first month, this site has gathered more than 1700 registered users representing more than 700 companies.
Registration allows users to download and to participate in a lively online forum in which they can share information, ask questions of OVM technologists, and propose ideas for enhancements to the library and methodology.
Users will be able to learn more about the OVM and its applications at the Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition (DVCon) in San Jose, from 19th to 21st February 2008.
OVM World activities sponsored by Mentor Graphics and Cadence include a Tuesday morning tutorial, a Wednesday evening cocktail reception, a Thursday morning technical session, and a Thursday lunchtime user panel.
Users will have the chance to meet at a series of worldwide seminars over the upcoming months.
These free seminars, jointly sponsored by Cadence and Mentor Graphics, will be held at more than a dozen locations in North America, Europe and Asia.
A follow-up OVM World event is planned for the 2008 Design Automation Conference (DAC) to be held from 8th to 13th June in Anaheim, California.
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