Business Wire

Aldec’s Active-HDL Verification Capabilities Enhanced to Support SystemVerilog Constructs and UVM

HENDERSON, Nev.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aldec, Inc., a pioneer in mixed HDL language simulation and hardware-assisted verification for FPGA and ASIC designs, has greatly enhanced the verification ...
EDN

Hardware-assisted verification, from its dawn to SystemVerilog, UVM, and transactors

My [LR’s] first exposure to hardware emulation happened circa 1995 upon visiting a major processor firm in Austin, Texas. Its lab was jam-packed from floor to ceiling with monstrous hardware emulators ...
Electronic Design

Make the Move from Module-Based Mixed-Signal Verification to UVM

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This article discusses techniques used to achieve this transition, including proxy SystemVerilog interface task calls ...
Design-Reuse

Mentor Graphics Adds Memory Models to Create Industry's First Complete UVM SystemVerilog Verification IP Library

WILSONVILLE, Ore., Feb. 29, 2016 – Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced availability of the first entirely native UVM SystemVerilog memory verification IP library for all ...
EDN

SystemVerilog assertions unify design and verification

The SystemVerilog standard is the result of an industry-wide effort to extend the Verilog language in a consistent way to include enhanced modeling and verification features. By adding verification ...
Business Wire

SpringSoft’s Verdi Debug Software Expands Verification Interoperability with Comprehensive UVM Support

HSINCHU, Taiwan--(BUSINESS WIRE)--SpringSoft, Inc., a global supplier of specialized IC design software, today announced comprehensive support for the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) with its ...
Design-Reuse

Advanced Techniques for IP Design and Verification

As designs grow in size and complexity, the challenges associated with low power and the growing design and verification gap have created the need for a paradigm shift in the IP design and ...
Electronic Design

SystemVerilog Gains A Foothold In Verification

SystemVerilog marries a number of verification concepts, primarily in the areas of design, assertions, and testbench creation, that were previously embodied in separate and sometimes proprietary ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Adding Value To Open-Source RISC-V Cores With Verification

Modern SoC verification has matured to the point that some are suggesting the use of the word ‘prototype’ when referring to the first silicon samples is now unnecessary. This is due in part to the ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Open-Source Verification

Sorting out what is meant by open-source verification is not easy, but it leaves the door open to new approaches Ask different people what open-source verification means and you will get a host of ...