Accellera at DVCon 2025 Updates and Behavioral Coverage

Accellera at DVCon 2025 Updates and Behavioral Coverage
by Bernard Murphy on 03-11-2025 at 6:00 am

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As usual I check in on Accellera activities each year at DVCon. Lu Dai (chair) gave an opening talk at the Accellera lunch, with contributions from other speakers on a few topics. In the afternoon I heard an update on PSS 3.0. What follows is a quick summary with my own musings on behavioral coverage.

Notable non-PSS topics

Karsten … Read More


An Accellera Update. COVID Accelerates Progress

An Accellera Update. COVID Accelerates Progress
by Bernard Murphy on 12-17-2020 at 6:00 am

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Normally I would post this Accellera update during DVCon US but, no surprise, this year is weird. Particularly in conferences going virtual. The last DVCon was in early March of this year, right on the cusp of the shutdown. I was there in person, as was Lu Dai (Chairman of Accellera). Both Synopsys and Cadence had dropped out, citing… Read More


Accellera Tackles Functional Safety, Mixed-Signal

Accellera Tackles Functional Safety, Mixed-Signal
by Bernard Murphy on 05-05-2020 at 6:00 am

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I managed a few meetings at DVCon this year in spite of the Coronavirus problems. One of these was with Lu Dai Chairman of Accellera. I generally meet with Lu each year to get an update on where they are headed, and he had some interesting new topics to share.

Membership and headcount remain pretty stable. Any changes (at the associate… Read More