Date: 24/11/2020

Draft of Accellera PSS 2.0 open for VLSI design community review

Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Working Group (PSWG) welcomes feedback on its Portable Test and Stimulus Draft Standard 2.0 (PSS) from the VLSI semicoductor EDA design community before December 18, 2020.

Accellera has made available of its Portable Test and Stimulus Draft Standard 2.0 (PSS) for public review on Nov 18th 2020.

The Portable Test and Stimulus Draft Standard 2.0 includes about 90% of the projected functionality that will be included in the official Portable Test and Stimulus Standard 2.0 release expected in March 2021.

New additions to the draft of the 2.0 standard:

Core Library for standard portable functionality and utilities for common PSS applications, including register accesses and memory allocation and management Collection types, including arrays, lists, maps, and sets
Parameterized types
Constraint enhancements, including default constraints and propagation Enhanced activity-level generation and scheduling constructs Improved portability of procedural constructs for test realization