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SystemVerilog pioneers recognised by
IEEE
Dennis Brophy and Dave Rich have received the IEEE Working Group Chairman's Award for their contributions to the IEEE1800-2005 "SystemVerilog" standard.
Dennis Brophy and Dave Rich have received the IEEE Working Group Chairman's Award for their contributions to the IEEE1800-2005 "SystemVerilog" standard The award, which was presented by IEEE1800 Working Group Chairman Johny Srouji, took place at a ceremony held last week in San Jose
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 21 Feb 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Brophy's and Rich's recognition further establishes Mentor Graphics' leadership in SystemVerilog development and adoption since the IEEE1800 standard is critical for new verification methodologies.
The award was given to only seven out of over one hundred individuals who serve on various IEEE committees.
Dave Rich, Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Test Division Verification Technologist, having served on several IEEE and Accellera technical committees, has expert knowledge of design languages.
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Rich was involved in the development of Superlog, the predecessor to SystemVerilog.
For the IEEE1800 Working Group, he developed a significant number of technical enhancements, corrections, and clarifications that were incorporated into the newly delivered standard.
Rich has been instrumental in reviewing the work across all technical committees for this new SystemVerilog standard.
Dennis Brophy, Mentor Graphics Design Verification and Test Division Director of Strategic Business Development and Secretary of the IEEE 1800 Working Group, received the IEEE award for his ability to drive industry-wide consensus with EDA vendors, system houses, and semiconductor suppliers who participated in the IEEE1800 initiative.
He is also a board member of the IEEE Standards Association and its Corporate Advisory Group.
He is a major catalyst to fostering the use of the IEEE Corporate Programme for EDA standards and has helped forge a strong relationship between the IEEE and Accellera.
Brophy is past Chairman of Accellera and now serves as Accellera's Vice-Chairman.
"We are indebted to Mentor, Dennis and Dave for contributing to the successful delivery of IEEE Std 1800-2005", said Johny Srouji, Chairman of the SystemVerilog 1800 Working Group and Verilog 1364 Working Group.
"Their efforts to establish SystemVerilog as a key design and verification language help engineers deal with more complex design configurations, greater logic functionality and a higher abstract representation of the design, using fewer lines of register transfer level code".
Mentor Graphics has recognised the importance of SystemVerilog by being the first EDA vendor to fully support this standard.
Mentor's recently announced Questa verification platform supports the new IEEE1800 standard by providing design and testbench constructs, assertions and the direct programming interface (DPI) within a single-kernel solution.
SystemVerilog is supported by a broad range of Mentor products, such as ModelSim, ADVance MS, VStation TBX and Precision RTL Synthesis.
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