IEEE Approves SystemVerilog(R) and Verilog(R) Standards for Electronic Design
PISCATAWAY, N.J.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Nov. 9, 2005—
The IEEE today announced that it has approved
SystemVerilog, IEEE Std 1800(TM)-2005, as a new standard and has
approved Verilog, IEEE Std 1364(TM)-2005, as a revision to the popular
Verilog hardware description language (HDL). SystemVerilog extends the
Verilog language, the predominant language used for chip design, to
address the growing complexity of electronic system and semiconductor
designs. SystemVerilog is a unified language for hardware design,
specification, and verification that was developed within the IEEE
Standard Association's Corporate Program. The revision to the Verilog
language standard resolves several ambiguities and corrects minor
errors.
The broad IEEE SystemVerilog 1800 standard raises productivity for
hardware design, specification, simulation and validation, especially
for large-gate-count, IP-based, bus-intensive chips. It is based on
the SystemVerilog 3.1a hardware description and verification language
(HDVL) from the Accellera standards organization, which includes such
features as advanced design modeling capabilities, testbench
constructs, verification methods using assertion and testbench
language, and a richer coupling with other languages such as C/C++.
This unified standard gives the electronic design, semiconductor and
system design communities a way to make design, simulation, validation
and assertion-based verification work flows more efficient. It also
lets designers use other languages in conjunction with Verilog, so
they can leverage existing designs and intellectual property.
"IEEE 1800 enhances the Verilog HDL to keep it at the cutting edge
of the industry," said Johny Srouji, chair of the SystemVerilog 1800
Working Group and Verilog 1364 Working Group. "It offers a more
powerful, integrated, concise design and verification language,
allowing engineers to deal with more complex design configurations,
such as deeper pipelines, greater logic functionality and a higher
abstract representation of the design using fewer lines of register
transfer level code."
The IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA) has been a primary source
of electronic design automation standards since the mid 1980s. The
IEEE 1364 Verilog standard, for instance, has been a common language
for integrated circuit development for more than a decade and has
sparked strong growth in this sector. IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog standard
was sponsored by the Design Automation Standards Committee within the
IEEE Computer Society and by the IEEE-SA's Corporate Advisory Group.
Standards which are created within the IEEE-SA Corporate Program
are developed by company-based working groups in which each member
company has one vote. This industry-oriented program often allows for
standards production in only one to two years, depending on
participant commitment and the use of IEEE support services. The
SystemVerilog 1800 working group included a large number of technical
members from electronic design and user companies who dedicated their
time and worked together very hard to achieve this standard. The
Corporate Program was a significant factor in the rapid production of
SystemVerilog 1800.
"The IEEE 1800 standard was developed in a very short period,
twelve months, as a result of excellent collaboration and
contributions of all working group members and underlying technical
committees," said Chuck Adams, chair of the IEEE Standards Association
(IEEE-SA) Corporate Advisory Group (CAG). "Accellera played a major
and important role in enabling this achievement, through the donation
of Accellera SystemVerilog 3.1a, in addition to continuous and
outstanding cooperation with the IEEE 1800 group throughout the
development of this standard."
Pricing and Availability
The SystemVerilog IEEE Std 1800-2005 and Verilog IEEE Std
1364-2005 will be available for purchase under the IEEE store, and can
obtained through IEEE Standards Online subscription, or purchase
according to published list price. For more information, see:
http://shop.ieee.org/ieeestore.
About the IEEE Standards Association
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develops consensus standards through an open process that brings
diverse parts of an industry together. These standards set
specifications and procedures based on current scientific consensus.
The IEEE-SA has a portfolio of more than 870 completed standards and
more than 400 standards in development. Over 15,000 IEEE members
worldwide belong to IEEE-SA and voluntarily participate in standards
activities. For information on IEEE-SA see:
http://www.standards.ieee.org/.
About the IEEE
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countries. Through its members, the organization is a leading
authority on areas ranging from aerospace, computers and
telecommunications to biomedicine, electric power and consumer
electronics. The IEEE produces nearly 30 percent of the world's
literature in the electrical and electronics engineering, computing
and control technology fields. This nonprofit organization also
sponsors or cosponsors more than 300 technical conferences each year.
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Contact:
SystemVerilog Working Group
Johny Srouji, 512-838-0252
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IEEE
Karen McCabe, 732-562-3824
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