Acronyms and Definitions
AMS: Analog Mixed-Signal
 CCI: Configuration, Control & Inspection
 DVCon: Design & Verification Conference
 EDA: Electronic Design Automation
 GET: Free IEEE LRM download program
 IC: Integrated Circuit
 IP: Intellectual Property
 IPR: Intellectual Property Rights
 IP-XACT: Metadata standard for IP integration
 IEEE: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
 ITC: Interface Technical Committee
 LWG: Language Working Group
 OCI: Open Compression Interface
 OSCI: Open SystemC Initiative
 OVI: Open Verilog International
 PSL: Property Specification Language
 SDF: Standard Delay Format
 SC: SystemC
 SCV: SystemC Verification 
 SPIRIT: Structure for Packaging, Integrating, and Reusing IP within Tool-flows
 SV: System Verilog
 SWG: Synthesis Working Group
 TLM: Transaction-Level Modeling
 UCIS: Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard
 UPF: Unified Power Format
 UVM: Universal Verification Methodology
 V-AMS: Verilog-Analog Mixed-Signal
 VHDL: VHSIC hardware description language
 VI: VHDL International
 VIP: Verification Intellectual Property
