Quote Sheet - Accellera Approves Clock and Reset Domain Crossing (CDC/RDC) Standard 1.0 for Release
Agnisys
Agnisys congratulates Accellera and the CDC Working Group on the release of CDC LRM 1.0. This milestone represents a significant advancement toward standardizing clock and reset domain crossing specifications across the semiconductor industry. A unified abstraction for CDC and RDC interfaces is essential for improving IP reuse, integration consistency, and system-level verification efficiency.
At Agnisys, we strongly believe that standards-driven automation is critical to managing the growing complexity of heterogeneous SoC designs. CDC LRM 1.0 establishes an interoperable framework that enables improved design accuracy, streamlined constraint specification, and consistent tool alignment across the ecosystem. We appreciate the opportunity to collaborate with Accellera in furthering open standards that enhance industry productivity, design integrity, and development efficiency.
-Anupam Bakshi, Founder, CEO, Agnisys, Inc.
Blue Pearl Solutions
Blue Pearl Solutions celebrates Accellera’s v1.0 release of the “Standard for IP Abstraction for Clock and Reset Domain Crossing Integration.” This important milestone enables design teams to use EDA tools from multiple vendors to verify that systems are free from CDC and/or RDC errors. As a member of the Accellera CDC Working Group, we have actively participated to ensure this new standard addresses our users’ needs for accurate analysis. We look forward to more support from IP providers so that we can more accurately model their IP in the Visual Verification Suite’s CDC analysis.
-Dave Wallace, Chief Scientist, Blue Pearl Solutions
Huge Congratulations to the Accellera CDC Working-Group for this key milestone. It has been an exciting journey marked with innovation, collaboration, and excellent results. Excited to see the impact it will have on the Design & EDA communities, especially in quality and time to market.
- Dammy Olopade, Tech Lead, Google
Intel
Congratulations to the Accellera CDC Working Group on the release of the Standard for IP Abstraction for Clock and Reset Domain Crossing Integration LRM 1.0. This milestone reflects a strong, industry‑wide collaboration to close long‑standing gaps in clock and reset domain crossing integration. We are proud to see the ecosystem come together to deliver a clear, practical standard, and we look forward to its broad adoption, and continued evolution to support increasingly complex designs.
-Lee Fueng Yap , Principal Engineer, Intel Corporation
NVIDIA
Thank you, Accellera and the members of the CDC working group, for releasing the Standard for IP Abstraction for Clock and Reset Domain Crossing Integration LRM 1.0. With this new CDC/RDC standard, an IP verified with a tool can generate a standard abstraction for upper-level CDC/RDC verification. We look forward to simplifying and improving the accuracy of hierarchical CDC/RDC verification in heterogeneous IP and SoC design environments.
-Ping Yeung, Distinguished engineer, NVIDIA Corp.
Qualcomm
We congratulate Accellera and its partner companies on the successful release of LRM 1.0, a timely and important step toward standardizing CDC and RDC interfaces. This release highlights strong industry collaboration and establishes a common framework for specifying constraints, simplifying integration of heterogeneous IPs. The standardized IP abstraction for clock and reset domain crossings will significantly improve engineering efficiency, accuracy, and consistency, enabling reliable CDC, RDC, and glitch analysis. LRM 1.0 also provides a clear foundation for EDA vendors to align and collaborate, enabling consistent tool support and interoperable flows across the ecosystem. This standard is a critical enabler for improving design quality, productivity, and time‑to‑market across the industry.
-Suman Chalana, Principal Engineer/Manager, Qualcomm
Renesas
Renesas welcomes the release of the Standard for IP Abstraction for Clock and Reset Domain Crossing Integration LRM 1.0 and commends the Accellera CDC Working Group for its collaborative and technically rigorous effort. This release marks a major milestone in IP adoption and SoC integration, addressing long-standing challenges in clock and reset domain crossing. Our engineers have been actively collaborating throughout the development of the specification, and we are proud to support its adoption and continued evolution.
-Satoshi Shibatani, VP, EDA Technologies & Design Services, Renesas Electronics.
Siemens EDA
We congratulate Accellera and the companies with which we’ve collaborated over the last three years on delivery of the CDC LRM Standard 1.0!
Industry standardization of CDC & RDC Hierarchical Data Models enables our customers and their IP vendors to more efficiently collaborate in driving the innovations defining the industry’s future. We are proud to have participated in this effort from the beginning and committed to support this standard in Siemens EDA’s CDC & RDC solutions and are continuing to support further improvements.
-Farhad Ahmed & Abdul Moyeen, Siemens EDA
ST Microelectronics
The creation of the Accellera Clock Domain Crossing standard version 1.0 is a significant milestone in the industry and foreshadows a substantial change in SoC CDC-RDC verification strategy.
We can all be proud to be part of the Accellera CDC Working Group taking up the challenge to bring a common way modelling the IPs in line with signoff CDC-RDC Verification requirements. Considering the wide diversity of IPs, the increasing complexity of asynchronisms at SoC level, being addressed currently across various applications, it is essential to support CDC and RDC modelling including SVA instrumentation.
The strong collaboration and contributions by industry leaders (157 members from 24 companies) to reach this important step should open a new era for broad industry adoption, interoperability, and the ability to shift left when driving to market.
Our early engagement, at STMicroelectronics, since the initial Pre-WG launched in September 2022, and investment with Accellera Systems Initiative on CDC standard elaboration and promotion through more than 15 conferences, is all set to enable the EDA partners’ involvement in tools development and the industry to adopt it consecutively.
-Jean-Christophe Brignone, SMTS & CDC-RDC Verification Technical Leader at STMicroelectronics