Portable Test & Stimulus Standard 3.0 Now Available

The Accellera Board of Directors has approved the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) 3.0 for immediate release. PSS 3.0 adds many new features, corrects errors, clarifies aspects of the language and semantic definitions, and much more. The most substantial feature added to PSS 3.0 is support for behavioral coverage where several scenarios can be generated from a single PSS specification.

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Read the full press release here>

Additional information and resources can be found on the Portable Stimulus Working Group page.

UVM for Mixed Signal Draft Standard Review Now Open

The Universal Verification Methodology for Mixed-Signal (UVM-MS) draft standard is available for public review through September 9, 2024. It is a comprehensive and unified analog/mixed-signal verification methodology based on the UVM IEEE Std 1800.2™. The objective is to standardize methods for driving and monitoring mixed-signal nets within UVM. In addition to the standard for review, a UVM-MS test case is available to explore. It demonstrates the UVM-MS capabilities and shows how to use and migrate UVM testbenches to UVM-MS.

Download the draft standard and test case here >

The working group values your input. Please provide comments and feedback through the UVM-MS Community Forum.

CDC Draft Standard 0.3 Public Review Open

The Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) Working Group has released draft standard 0.3 for public review. The purpose of this standard is to provide the electronic design automation (EDA), semiconductor, and system design communities with a well-defined specification for unified handling of CDC by vendor tools used across IPs and SoCs.

With this interface standard, every IP developer’s verification tool of choice is run to verify and produce collateral, and a standard format is generated for SoCs that used a different tool.

Download the draft here >

The CDC Working Group encourages the community to participate in the review and provide feedback via the CDC Community Forum. The public review is open through September 9.

For more background on the standard, view the workshop presented during DVCon U.S. 2024, “Hierarchical CDC and RDC Closure with Standard Abstract Models.”