Subject: ITC - Mentor POV
From: Bailey, Brian (brian_bailey@mentorg.com)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 15:21:05 PST
Accellera Interface Technical Committee
Objectives for Mentor Graphics
February 22, 2002
As a founding member of the SCE-API, Mentor Graphics is committed to ensuring the success of the work that has gone on so far with the MI and CI and is eager to see its expansion into new areas. We value the successful implementation and adoption of industry standard interfaces for all facets of verification and are keen to see standards that span multiple levels of abstraction and execution environments. In order to achieve this we would like to concentrate on 3 primary objectives in the near term:
1. A broader review of the SCE-API to bring about industry consensus and the publishing of the first Accellera standard in this area.
2. An extension or layer on top of the MI that would support a distributed multi-client environment that would allow more than 2 parties to be involved in the communications.
3. A completion of the CI interface that includes both the batch and interactive modes of operation such that debugging operations can be performed. This includes not only the DUT but also the transactors.
As a longer term goal, we would like to see a complete peer to peer multi-abstraction environment be created that would allow models from various sources to be easily integrated together to form a virtual prototype spanning the system level through to the implementation. By model we would include not only a DUT, but also test models, 'diagnostic and debug models' and analysis functions.
In order to help Accellera meet these objectives, we will commit 1 day per week of effort from Brian Bailey to act as chair of the TC and contributor to the working groups. In addition, members of the various interface groups within the company will provide review and comments on all materials produced and may be available for direct contributions in specific areas on a short term basis. They will also be working on the implementation of the interfaces as they near completion.
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Brian Bailey brian_bailey@mentor.com
Chief Technologist Tel: 503 685 1371
System Verification Development Office Fax: 503 685 1652
Mentor Graphics Corp. 8005 S.W. Boeckman Rd. Wilsonville, OR 97070
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