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As most of you will have seen by now, Accellera and OSCI have announced the intention to form a new EDA standards organization that will cover the design flow roughly from Gate-level up through the System-level.  This may seem to be a natural move to most people, and one that could easily have happened years ago.  If we flip back to what seems to be an very remote time, viz., 2000 when Accellera was created by the merger of Open Verilog International and VHDL International, there seems to have been no good reason why OSCI could not have been a third party to that merger.  Or was there?

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