EDN

SystemVerilog Reference Verification Methodology: VMM Adoption

The larger and more complex that system-on-chip (SoC) designs grow, the more verification dominates the development process. In fact, effective design reuse puts even more pressure on the verification ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Tool Automates Generation Of SystemVerilog Testbenches

The SystemVerilog infrastructure is built out further with Synopsys' introduction of Pioneer-NTB. This testbenchautomation tool delivers native SystemVerilog testbench generation to users of ...
Electronic Design

Find the Fastest Route to Portable Stimulus Tests with SystemVerilog

Download this article in PDF format. The Portable Stimulus Specification (PSS) is all about reusing commonly used test atoms to create new scenarios more quickly. It saves us from wasting precious ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Optimizing Testbench Acceleration Performance

Part 3 in a series of papers that demystify the performance of SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches when using an emulator for the purpose of hardware-assisted testbench acceleration. In these three ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Testbench Acceleration Performance Demystified

Part 2 in a series of papers that demystify the performance of SystemVerilog and UVM testbenches when using an emulator for the purpose of hardware-assisted testbench acceleration. In these three ...