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Release Information   Standards Corner Dennis Brophy
ModelSim Designer 6.1a ModelSim 6.1 Questa IEEE Approves SystemVerilog

On 8 November 2005 the IEEE Standards Association Board approved SystemVerilog as an approved IEEE standard; now known as IEEE Std. 1800™-2005. It also approved an update to Verilog known as IEEE Std. 1364™-2005. The rapid approval by the IEEE through its Corporate Standards Program finalizes SystemVerilog’s accreditation process and provides design and verification engineers the assurance that their SystemVerilog designs are based on a single, stable standard. Mentor Graphics welcomes this news as do more than 30 other companies. The 1800 and 1364 standards are now available for purchase from the IEEE.

You can put the SystemVerilog standard to work today. ModelSim supports the design portion of SystemVerilog along with DPI. Questa supports that along with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) and automated testbench features. Other Mentor Graphics products, such as Precision Synthesis and HDL Designer Series support SystemVerilog as well. In addition to support by Mentor Graphics products and solutions, there are more than 75 announcements of tools and services for SystemVerilog from other companies as well.

SystemVerilog is sure to bring added productivity and automation to the design and verification process. And the good news is, it is available today from Mentor Graphics.


Dennis Brophy is the Director of Strategic Business Development for the Scalable Verification division at Mentor Graphics

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Advanced Verification with Questa Seminar: Europe

This seminar will provide attendees with an understanding of relevant advanced verification topics that have been proven useful in verifying today's complex SoC designs, and how to use SystemVerilog to apply them in practical ways on your current and future projects.

Jan 30, 2006, Oxfordshire, UK
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Advances in platform-based design technology allow designers to build and verify sophisticated System-on-Chip (SoC) designs quickly and efficiently. By leveraging XML platform-based methodology, designers can focus attention on hardware blocks that will differentiate their product. This presentation demonstrates rapid design creation and verification using existing IP as well as configurable IP; it focuses on the current design landscape, Mentor Graphics’ Platform Express™ design methodology, and LSI Logic’s RapidChip® platform ASICs.

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