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System Verilog + OVM: Mitigating Verification Challenges & Maximizing Reusability

Verification – has been becoming a nightmare for engineers with the increasing requirements and complexity of the design. Mitigating the complexity of a verification environment with the increasing ...
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Verification of Asynchronous FIFO Using System Verilog

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for data ...
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Mixed-mode verification of DDR, LCD, and memory sub-systems: Verilog-AMS vs. SPICE

Editor's note: This paper is the third in a series covering the pros and cons of using a Verilog-AMS view with respect to a SPICE view for verification of SOC IP having an analog component. The first ...
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Comparing Verilog-AMS vs. SPICE view usage for robust AMS Verification of Power Management Controller and Mode Transition

The SOCs produced today provide a high level of functionality, driving a wide range of applications, while becoming more and more cost effective. This means that the complexity of the SOC too is ...
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NextOp Announces BugScope Assertion Synthesis for Progressive, Targeted Verification

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 6, 2010 -- NextOp Software, Inc. today announced BugScope, the industry’s first assertion synthesis product to synthesize high quality assertions and functional coverage ...
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Design and Verification of AMBA APB Protocol

The SoC (System on Chip) uses AMBA (Advanced Microcontroller Bus Architecture) as an on-chip bus. APB (Advanced Peripheral Bus) is one of the components of the AMBA bus architecture. APB is low ...