1. Accellera Systems Initiative Overview Bill Read | August, 2012

2. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative Our Mission  To provide design and verification standards required by systems, semiconductor, IP and design tool companies to enhance a front-end design automation process.  To collaborate with its community of companies, individuals and organizations in delivering the standards that lower the cost to design commercial EDA, IC and embedded system solutions. 2

3. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Broad Industry Support Diverse Membership from EDA Vendors, IP Suppliers, Semiconductor Manufacturers and System Houses Corporate Members Associate Members 3

4. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Why Standards? 4  Design tools & methodologies continue to evolve rapidly -Simulation -Emulation -IP integration -DFx Architecting DFx -Mixed environment  Standards help reduce overcall cost of migrating design, IP & tools

5. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative Supported IEEE Working Groups 1800 SystemVerilog Karen Pieper Tabula 1801 UPF John Biggs ARM 1076 VHDL Jim Lewis SynthWorks 1666 SystemC Stan Krolikoski Cadence SystemC TLM Bart Vanthournout Synopsys SystemC AMS Martin Barnasconi NXP SystemC CCI Trevor Wieman Intel IP-XACT Christian Fraisse STMicrosystems VIP Hillel Miller Freescale Tom Alsop Intel IP Tagging Kathy Werner Freescale Technical Committee Karen Pieper, Tabula Board of Directors Shishpal Rawat, Intel Marketing Committee Thomas Li, Springsoft Administration SystemC Language David Black Doulos SystemC Synthesis Andres Takach Calypto UCIS Richard Ho DE Shaw OVL Kenneth Larson Mentor Graphics Verilog-AMS Scott Little Intel Interface (ITC)‏ Brian Bailey EDA DesignLine 5 SystemRDL Oren Katzir Intel

6. © 2011-2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. 2012 2011 2010 2009 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 Accellera Standards Success Accellera formed from VI & OVI Corporate IEEE Member IEEE IPR adopted Merger with SPIRIT Merger with OSCI OVL 1.01.82.12.32.42.5 2.6 V-AMS 2.02.12.22.32.3.1 SV 3.13.1aIEEE 1800 PSL 1.1IEEE 1850 UPF 1.0IEEE 1801 ITC 1.01.12.02.12.2 UCIS 1.0 VHDL 1.03.03.14.0IEEE 1076 UVM 1.0 & 1.1 OCI 1.0IEEE 1450 IP-XACT 1.5IEEE 16852.0 6

7. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 2012 OSCI Standards Success LWG1.02.02.1 & IEEE 1666-20052.2 & IEEE 1666-20112.3 TLM1.02.0 SCV1.01.0p2 SWGDraft 1Draft 2 AMSAMS Study GroupDraft 11.0 CCIRequirements1.0 201120102009200820072006200520042003200220012000 1999 OSCI formed IEEE 1666-2005 released OSCI 10 year anniversary IEEE 1666- 2011 Merger with Accellera 7

8. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012  UVM and IP-XACT  SystemC and IP- XACT System-Level IP Integration  Verilog-AMS, SystemVerilog AMS, SystemC AMS  UVM, TLM-2.0, CCI  SystemC and UCIS Synergies and Future Opportunities Mixed-Signal Design & Verification System-Level Verification 8

9. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 EDA and IP Design Standards and Initiatives 9 System C Design Testbench SoC Integration SV-AMSUPFSDFOCI OVL VHDLVerilog System- Verilog UVM SCE-MI IP-XACTIP-Tagging UCIS

10. © 2011-2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. Verification Intellectual Property (VIP) Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) 1.1 Open Verification Library (OVL) 2.6 Verilog-AMS (V-AMS) 2.3.1 Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) 2.1 Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS) 1.0 IP-XACT - Update to IEEE 1685 Intellectual Property (IP) Tagging SystemC Synthesizable Subset Draft 1.3 SystemC Analog Mixed-Signal (AMS) 1.0 SystemC Configuration, Control & Inspection (CCI Requirements) SystemC Language Standard SystemRDL (launched) Transaction Level Modeling (TLM) 1.0 and 2.0 Open Source Companions: - UVM Reference Implementation 1.1 - SystemC Proof of Concept Library (POCL) - SystemC Verification Library 1.0p2 Current Standards 10 th Annual DVCon – Our flagship conference Ongoing Technical Activities 10

11. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Strong Relationship with IEEE  Using Get IEEE program to allow access to EDA standards -IEEE 1666 SystemC -IEEE 1685 IP-XACT  Accellera Systems Initiative Continues IEEE Standards Association Advanced Corporate Membership -1076 VHDL -1666 SystemC Language -1685 IP-XACT -1800 SystemVerilog (SV) -1801 Unified Power Format (UPF)‏ -1850 Property Specification Language (PSL)‏ 11

12. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 What’s Next?  Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) 2.0  Verilog and SystemC Analog/Mixed-Signal (AMS)  SystemC Configuration, Control, & Inspection (CCI)  IP Tagging  IP-XACT  SystemRDL 12

13. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 13 Global Events 2013 Silicon Valley: DVCon 2013 and North American SystemC Users Group Meeting Germany: DATE 2013 and European SystemC Users Group Meeting Bangalore: India SystemC Users Group Meeting, Spring 2013 Austin, TX: DAC 2013 Japan SystemC Users Group, July 2013 Taiwan SystemC Users Group, Fall 2013

14. © 2011-2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. Summary  Accellera Systems Initiative is the standards body for front- end design and IP integration  Ongoing Integration of Accellera and OSCI  Strong collaborative relationship With the IEEE A robust organization serving the electronics industry since 1987! www.accellera.org 14

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16. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 Acronyms & Definitions  AMS: Analog/Mixed Signal  CCI: Configuration, Control & Inspection  DVCon: Design & Verification Conference  EDA: Electronic Design Automation  GET: Free IEEE LRM download program  IC: Integrated Circuit  IP: Intellectual Property  IPR: Intellectual Property Rights  IP-XACT : Metadata standard for IP integration  IEEE : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers  ITC: Interface Technical Committee  LWG: Language Working Group  OCI: Open Compression Interface  OSCI: Open SystemC Initiative  OVI: Open Verilog International  OVL : Open Verification Library  PSL: Property Specification Language  SDF: Standard Delay Format  SC: SystemC  SCV: SystemC Verification  SPIRIT: Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool-flows  SV: SystemVerilog  SWG: Synthesis Working Group  TLM: Transaction-Level Modeling  UCIS: Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard  UPF: Unified Power Format  UVM: Universal Verification Methodology  V-AMS: Verilog-Analog/Mixed Signal  VHDL: VHSIC Hardware Description Language  VI: VHDL International  VIP: Verification Intellectual Property 16

17. © 2012 Accellera Systems Initiative, Inc. August, 2012 17 Recent Accomplishments Completed the merger to form the Accellera Systems Initiative Hosted two SystemC User Group meetings in Taiwan Held a session at IP-SOC in Grenoble, France about our EDA and IP Standards Roadmap Published SystemC AMS extensions white paper Completed next revision of the SystemC LRM, IEEE 1666-2011, which is available for free download Continued interest in our IEEE 1685 (IP-XACT) standard with over 4000 free downloads to date Released Video Tutorial "Software-Driven Verification Using TLM-2.0 Virtual Platforms“ Released Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS) 1.0 Released the SystemC 2.3 Library Accellera Systems Initiative Technical Achievement and Leadership Awards