Open Verilog International Receives IEEE Funding

Open Verilog International (OVI), an EDA industry organization that promotes the use and evolution of the Verilog hardware description language (HDL), announced that it has received funding from the IEEE Circuits and Systems (CAS) Society. IEEE will provide the funding through its Computer Aided Network Design or CANDE technical committee for further development of the Verilog HDL standard-IEEE 1364. The amount of the funding was not disclosed.

According to Dennis Brophy, OVI Board Chairman and Director of Strategic Business Development at Model Technology Inc. (Portland, OR), "This funding represents a significant endorsement by the engineering community of our IEEE 1364 Verilog standardization efforts."

Maq Mannan, IEEE-1364 Verilog Standards Group chairman and president of DSM Technologies (San Jose, CA), added, "The decision by such a highly respected organization like IEEE CAS and its technical committee, CANDE, to fund the 1364-1999 efforts, sends a very positive message to the Verilog user community and will accelerate the efforts to get our 1364-1999 standard approved."

Wayne Wolf, chair of the CAS Technical Committee on CAD (CANDE), remarked, "Standards are an important part of the IEEE's mission. The IEEE Circuits and Systems Society deserves a lot of credit for stepping forward to make this effort possible."

Verilog HDL was first approved as IEEE standard 1364 in December 1995.