Hi, Geoff -

Classes, including base classes are already part of the IEEE1800 Standard. I assume you are looking to donate a class library? Could you give more details regarding the nature and scope of the class library you are looking to donate and why users should want to use this library?

We have yet to accept any donated class libraries for standardization. Brings up the whole question of whether AVM and VMM class libraries could be donated for standardization. Interesting question.

Regards - Cliff Cummings
Verilog & SystemVerilog Guru
www.sunburst-design.com

I doubt standardizing on a class library would be particularly useful. After all SV itself is a standard that is not fully supported by any vendor so the chance of a class library being fully supported (never mind the length of time it would take to agree upon what that standard would encompass) is slim.

I believe the AVM takes the correct approach in releasing all of the source code under an open-source license. Users are then free (to the extent that the Apache license terms used permits) to do what they want with the code. An open-source approach is much more likely to lead to rapid adoption and de-facto standardization than the creating of yet another committee. If such a committee was formed, I'd imagine they insist on all the code being formatted in CamelCase ;)

Paul.