VERA has gained wide acceptance among SoC design teams in IP, processor, computer systems, networking and telecommunications companies. This initiative will help tool vendors and verification engineers by providing an opportunity to create interoperable tools based on an open and standard hardware verification language. More than thirty EDA, IP and SoC design companies have expressed their endorsement of OpenVera and the Vera Open Source Initiative. There are no licensing fees for OpenVera and there is unrestricted access to the language and documentation, subject to the OpenVera license. Synopsys will serve as the managing entity for OpenVera and guide the open language development.
Developers can use the language and create complementary tools.
With Synopsys' open source model, the user community can enhance the standard and submit changes to Synopsys for incorporation in future revisions of the LRM, which speeds up development of a high quality, well-supported standard. The language enables users to describe the target application environment, including complex protocols and data objects, at a high level of abstraction, which dramatically increases productivity, readability and reusability.