Accellera Approves New Portable Test and Stimulus Standard!

The Accellera Board of Directors has approved Portable Test and Stimulus 1.0 as an Accellera standard. The Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) defines a specification to create a single representation of stimulus and test scenarios usable by a variety of users across many levels of integration under different configurations. This representation facilitates the generation of diverse implementations of a scenario that run on a variety of execution platforms, including, but not necessarily limited to, simulation, emulation, FPGA prototyping, and post-silicon. With this standard, users can specify a set of behaviors once and observe consistent behavior across multiple implementations. The new standard is available immediately to download for free.

Release notes stating the differences between the Early Adopter II Release to the 1.0 standard are available. For more information, a press release and supporting industry quotes are also available. Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Community is also a resource for the latest information available on the new standard.

Portable Stimulus Tutorial Available
Dive in to the new powerful productivity-increasing standard with the "Portable Test and Stimulus: The Next Level of Verification Productivity is Here" tutorial.

Congratulations Martin Barnasconi, Recipient of the 2018 Accellera Leadership Award

Martin Barnasconi is the recipient of the seventh annual Accellera Leadership Award. The award recognizes the vision, leadership and contribution to standards development, governance and promotional activities of an Accellera member on behalf of the organization. The award was presented to Martin at the 55th Design Automation Conference (DAC) during the Accellera Breakfast and Technical Panel. Find out more >

New Proposed Working Group to Study IP Security 

The Accellera Board of Directors recently approved the formation of a Proposed Working Group (PWG) to define an IP Security Assurance Specification. The PWG is open to all interested parties for a period of six months. More details about this new activity can be found here >