What is the PSL/Sugar Consortium?
The PSL/Sugar Consortium was established to help hardware designers adopt and implement PSL/Sugar and its methodologies to speed design verification. Accellera’s Property Specification Language (PSL, based upon the Sugar language from IBM), is a powerful, concise language for assertion specification and complex modeling. PSL/Sugar provides an interoperable specification language to exchange hardware specifications and develop seamless tool integration.
The goal of the PSL/Sugar Consortium is to complement Accellera by helping hardware designers adopt PSL-based methodologies.The PSL/Sugar Consortium is an independent not-for-profit unincorporated organization composed of a broad range of companies, universities and individuals dedicated to supporting and advancing the use of PSL/Sugar as a de facto open source standard for assertion-based design and verification.
The PSL/Sugar Consortium consists of a large and growing number of system, semiconductor, IP, design services and EDA companies. The Consortium combines broad industry support with the best property specifiction language for advanced system design and verification.
Membership in the PSL/Sugar Consortium
The PSL/Sugar Consortium consists of a large and growing number of system houses, semiconductor companies, IP providers, design services and EDA tool vendors. Many companies function in more than one of these categories, but each category has its own compelling reasons for wanting to see agrowing leverage of PSL/Sugar.
Systems houses, semiconductor companies and design services companies (collectively called "design companies") will benefit from PSL/Sugar in two ways. First, with high quality commercial tools available from a variety of vendors, design companies will have an excellent alternative to creating and supporting their own proprietary tools. In other words, SystemC will allow these companies to take advantage of the latest innovations in assertion-based design and verification without diverting resources to support their own tools, focusing instead on their core competencies and competitive strengths. Secondly, design companies will be able to leverage PSL/Sugar to share models inside and outside their organizations.
IP providers will benefit from the PSL/Sugar standard because it will allow them to provide properties of unified form for each of their cores to any systems house or semiconductor company they do business with. Previously, in the absence of a standard, IP providers were compelled to provide customized versions of their properties to meet the different environments of their customers. With PSL/Sugar, they can do the work of creating and validating a set of propertiese, and then their work of developing library of properties is done.
EDA vendors will benefit from the PSL/Sugar standard because it will create a large and stable market for them to compete in. EDA companies have historically developed and marketed tools based on their own proprietary design languages. This approach, however, limits innovation, fosters small and fragmented niche markets, lengthens time to market, requires inefficient learning curves on designers and imposes substantial risks on customers, given the number of EDA tool vendors that go out of business each year. PSL/Sugar changes all of that for every vendor competing in the EDA space, allowing each to innovate and create tools in a format that has achieved widespread acceptance.
How to Join the PSL/Sugar Consortium
To become a member, send a note to: efratsh@il.ibm.com with PSL/Sugar Enroll in the subject line.
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