About Open Verification Methodology

We are using Incisive 6.2 (Incisive Design Team Simulator 29630 or Incisive Enterprise Simulator 29651) for the OVM development.  That vesion of the simulator will be on the download site by tomorrow (November 7th).

In the OVM development, both Cadence and Mentor discovered features in their class libraries and methodologies that the other company did not support.  The good news was that these issues were relatively minor and we were each able to keep the APIs nearly intact for both contributing libraries as we brought them together in OVM.  On the Cadence side, we have tested this by moving some of our customer's URM environments to the early adopter version of OVM.  In each case, the conversion took about a day.  We will be publishing information on that process and I expect that Mentor will publish information on how to move AVM environments.  Once the environment moves to OVM, you can rest assured that it will run on both the Incisive and Questa platforms.

Once OVM is available on the upcoming OVM website, both Cadence and Mentor will publish information on the simulator versions that run it.  On the Cadence side, that will be at least the 6.2 release and its subsequent updates.

If you are in the San Jose area, I'd recommend taking part in the OVM seminar tomorrow.  If you are not in San Jose, you can attend by webinar.  The sign-up info is at http://www.cadence.com/company/events/event.aspx?xml=open_verification_methodology.

Regards,

Adam "Sherilog" Sherer

We are using Incisive 6.2 (Incisive Design Team Simulator 29630 or Incisive Enterprise Simulator 29651) for the OVM development.  That vesion of the simulator will be on the download site by tomorrow (November 7th).

In the OVM development, both Cadence and Mentor discovered features in their class libraries and methodologies that the other company did not support.  The good news was that these issues were relatively minor and we were each able to keep the APIs nearly intact for both contributing libraries as we brought them together in OVM.  On the Cadence side, we have tested this by moving some of our customer's URM environments to the early adopter version of OVM.  In each case, the conversion took about a day.  We will be publishing information on that process and I expect that Mentor will publish information on how to move AVM environments.  Once the environment moves to OVM, you can rest assured that it will run on both the Incisive and Questa platforms.

Once OVM is available on the upcoming OVM website, both Cadence and Mentor will publish information on the simulator versions that run it.  On the Cadence side, that will be at least the 6.2 release and its subsequent updates.

If you are in the San Jose area, I'd recommend taking part in the OVM seminar tomorrow.  If you are not in San Jose, you can attend by webinar.  The sign-up info is at http://www.cadence.com/company/events/event.aspx?xml=open_verification_methodology.

Regards,

Adam "Sherilog" Sherer