EDN

Gabe’s Commentary: Verilog, SystemVerilog, or both

Four years ago, as the semiconductor industry process technology crossed below 193 nanometers, the number of transistors available to a design team made it necessary to explore new design methods at a ...
EDN

System Verilog for the masses

Aiming to bring advanced verification languages like SystemVerilog and advanced methods like assertion-based verification to mainstream IC designers, Mentor Graphics this week is introducing its new ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Things You Never Knew About System Verilog

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...
Electronic Design

First Commercial Parser Ships For System Verilog

A sure sign that a design language is making its way into the mainstream is the appearance of a spate of tools supporting it. For SystemVerilog devotees, the latest good news is the commercial ...
Design-Reuse

Using SystemVerilog Assertions in RTL Code

SystemVerilog is a set of extensions to the Verilog hardware description language and is expected to become IEEE standard 1800 later in 2005. SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) form an important subset of ...
Electronics Weekly

DAC: System Verilog mired in politics

It was supposed to be a new standard for verification, but System Verilog is having trouble getting out of the standards committee. Sources say the committee process at Accellera has become deeply ...
Design-Reuse

Transaction Recording, Modeling and Extensions for SystemVerilog

Adoption of transaction level modeling and the necessary tools for debugging and analysis has been slower than would be expected from growing SOC design sizes and complexities. This paper discusses ...
Linux Journal

Icarus Verilog: Open-Source Verilog More Than a Year Later

About 16 months ago, in the February 2001 Linux Journal [see www.linuxjournal.com/article/4428], we reviewed the state of open source in electronic design automation ...
TechRepublic

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 ...
Hackaday

system verilog

Hundreds of variations of open-source CPUs written in an HDL seem to float around the internet these days (and that’s a great thing). Many are RISC-V, an open-source instruction set (ISA), and are ...