Hosted Luncheon: Accellera Systems Initiative Rolls Out The Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard

Speaker: Dr. Richard Ho - D. E. Shaw Research,

Co-Chair of the UCIS Technical Subcommittee

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Please be Accellera Systems Initiative’s guest at a luncheon where we will present the forthcoming Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS).

Wednesday, June 6, 12:00-1:30pm
Moscone Center, Room 262

Coverage metrics are critical to measuring and guiding design verification. As designs have grown, increasingly advanced verification technologies, methods and additional metrics have been designed to form a fuller coverage model. There is currently no single metric that consistently and globally tells engineers the exact status of verification. But one step in the right direction is to bring all types of coverage metrics into a single database that can be accessed in an industry standard way.  The UCIS facilitates the creation of a unified coverage database that allows for interoperability of coverage data across multiple tools from multiple vendors.

This presentation, intended for verification managers and tool developers alike, provides an introduction to and overview of the UCIS and how users plan to utilize it to enhance their verification flows. We provide a survey of many of the commonly-used coverage metrics and how they are modeled in the UCIS. The information that users will be able to access through the UCIS will allow them to write their own applications to analyze, grade, merge and report coverage from one or more databases from one or more tool vendors. We will also discuss the XML-based interchange format of UCIS, which provides a path to exchange coverage databases without requiring a common code library between tools and vendors.

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This luncheon is open to all DAC attendees.