Verification Intellectual Property Technical Subcommittee

The Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Technical Subcommittee (TSC) is chartered to define standard technology and/or methods to realize a modular, scalable and reusable generic verification environment. This subcommittee's goal is to improve design productivity by making it easier to verify the design components with a standardized representation that can be used with various verification tools.

Scope

Verification components and environments are currently created in different forms, making interoperability among verification tools or geographically dispersed design teams time-consuming and error-prone. The results of Accellera’s VIP standardization effort will improve interoperability and reduce the cost of repurchasing and rewriting IP for each new project or electronic design automation tool, as well as make it easier to reuse verification components. Overall, the VIP standardization effort will lower verification costs and improve design quality throughout the industry.

Background

The IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog Hardware Design and Verification Language (HDVL) is a language of choice for modern design and validation. Yet, there isn’t a standard to create and use VIP written in the SystemVerilog language. Accellera’s VIP TSC will offer the next generation of benefits from SystemVerilog to verification engineers.

Verification solutions are ubiquitous, differing from company to company and among separate organizations within companies. Commercial tool suppliers do not support all the verification solutions in use today. The result is that there are many different methods for doing the same thing, requiring retraining and conversion costs. Interoperable VIP components reduce the cost of using and re-using VIP and improve the quality of design verification by eliminating translation errors.

Join the VIP-TSC

If you would like to join the VIP-TSC and you are an employee of an Accellera member company, create your user account here.

If you are not yet a member of Accellera, please contact us with your request to participate as a non-member.