EDN

SpringSoft turns the power of Verdi on SystemVerilog test benches

SystemVerilog was supposed to be such a boon to verification engineers. By providing a Verilog-like language with extensions that made it easy to write transactors, assertions, and checkers, the ...
Design-Reuse

Using Tcl to create a virtual component in Verilog

It has long been a goal to put realistic prototypes or models into system developer's hands as soon as possible. This has been accomplished with FPGAs, C language models and sometimes co-simulation ...
EDN

Guidelines for complex SoC verification

Almost 60-70% of time in the ASIC cycle is occupied by Functional Verification and so, the main aim of this paper is to provide overall guidelines in verification. More specifically, on the adoption ...
Electronic Design

Testbench Automation Tool Provides Tight Links To Verilog Simulation

Faster runtime performance, real-time access to built-in Verilog simulation coverage metrics, and a unified graphical environment for waveform analysis are all ...