EDA HEADS FOR BIG EASY, EYES BIG CHANGES: Standards come to DAC with skeptics in tow

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New Orleans - Two standards efforts will take major steps forward here this week at the Design Automation Conference, as the OpenAccess Coalition announces four EDA vendor members and much of the EDA community lines up behind Accellera's new SystemVerilog standard. But OpenAccess continues to draw skepticism from some majorvendors, most notably Synopsys Inc., which has acquired Avanti's Milkyway database. SystemVerilog, a next-generation version of Verilog equipped with an "assert" construct, appears to be in for a smoother ride. A number of vendors, including Synopsys, are lining up behind that effort, although few thus far have been willing to provide a timetable for products.