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Accellera Committee Focuses on Standard Coverage Metrics |
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Written by Tracy Heffner
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Monday, 18 December 2006 |
NAPA, CA – Accellera’s board of directors approved the formation of the new Unified Coverage Interoperability Technical Subcommittee (UCI TSC). The committee will define standards to enable sharing and analysis of coverage data generated by different tools during the verification process.
Coverage data is typically used during verification to determine if the verification goals have been met when using different tools and methodologies. The growing complexity of designs now requires that coverage data be shared among different tools to achieve verification closure. The UCI standard will provide a consistent way to quantify and share coverage data for current and next generation EDA tools.
"Electronic designers need a common standard for measuring their verification coverage when using tools from multiple sources and suppliers," said Shrenik Mehta, Accellera chair. "Our new committee is chartered to define a standard way to quantify the coverage metrics across software simulators, hardware accelerators, symbolic simulators and formal tools."
The goals of the UCI-TSC include:
- Defining standard coverage models for commonly used metrics.
- Identifying interoperability requirements among various coverage sources.
- Defining a standard that allows coverage data to be exchanged among different EDA suppliers' tools.
- Defining standard formats for representing coverage data.
- Encouraging user and EDA technology advancement for the next generation of coverage solutions.
The UCI standard will include terms and definitions of code and functional coverage metrics, data formats and an Application Programming Interface (API) specification.
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