Posted Feb 21, 2012, by Dennis Brophy
Is my car trying to tell me something?
This past Friday was the beginning of a two day internal functional verification meeting at Mentor Graphics corporate headquarters on Intelligent Testbench Automation (iTBA). (Mentor’s iTBA product, Questa inFact is hot and getting hotter.) After getting to my car to return home at the end of the first day, I was thinking that the large interest in this technology … Read More
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UVM,
Tipping Point,
Veloce,
inFact,
Intelligent Testbench Automation,
Crossing the Chasam,
Questa,
SoC,
iTBA,
OVM
Posted Nov 10, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
IEEE Announces Revision to IEEE 1666™ – Adds Transaction-Level Modeling Support
A significant step forward to address standards for advanced system-on-chip (SoC) designs has taken place by the IEEE. The IEEE announced the new revision of the SystemC standard, known as IEEE 1666™-2011, has been approved. While it is a revision of the current SystemC standard, IEEE 1666™-2005, the major new feature … Read More
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SystemC,
TLM,
Accellera,
1666,
OVM,
TLM 1.0,
TLM 2.0,
UVM,
OSCI,
Verification Academy
Posted Oct 13, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Legacy’s Luster Lost
As a follow-on to my last blog, where I shared information about Harry Foster speaking live about the research he has been reporting on the last year and where I noted legacy might hold some back, I was going to finish on some of the work we have done at Mentor Graphics to move forward while trying to keep some of those held back by legacy, whole.
Buy why this title? For some, … Read More
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VHS,
Verification,
VIP-TSC,
betamax,
e,
Accellera,
UVM,
OVM
Posted Oct 5, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Is Legacy Holding You Back?
Harry Foster, Mentor’s Verification Chief Scientist, will take center stage to give live presentations on the pressing SoC verification issues as he highlights recent research he has been reporting on in his numerous blogs. The first event will be held in San Jose, CA USA (18 October 2011) and the second event will be held in Reading, UK (15 November 2011).
Harry has been … Read More
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VMM,
VIP-TSC,
Accellera,
UVM,
OVM
Posted Jul 22, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Historical Perspective
In my early days of standards development, I was intrigued how a standard went from the development phase to use phase. New standards were heralded with great fanfare but were also followed very quickly with books and other material to allow the “mere mortal” to understand what the IEEE standards prose meant and how best to use it. Everyone had their favorite VHDL book and … Read More
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VITAL,
VHDL,
VMM,
OVM,
Accellera,
UVM,
UVM World,
OVM World
Posted Apr 21, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
User Adoption of OVM Featured; Views on UVM Discussed
The Mentor Graphics user group meeting, User-2-User, in Santa Clara is all set. U2U will be held on 26 April 2011 at the Santa Clara Marriott and one of the tracks will feature functional verification after keynote presentations by Mentor’s CEO, Wally Rhines and Xilinx’s CTO, Ivo Bolsens.
Registration for the event is open and is fee-free. U2U … Read More
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Functional Verification,
OVM,
Accellera,
UVM,
VIP,
U2U
Posted Mar 25, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Wally Rhines DVCon 2011 Keynote Highlights Survey on Verification Languages
OK, maybe it is not the Dawning of the Age of Aquarius, but Wally Rhines’ DVCon 2011 keynote did have a slide titled “SystemVerilog in the Ascendancy.” It is not a word I see or use much. In fact, Google labs’ “Book Ngram Viewer” shows ascendancy has been in decline since around 1825.
It struck me that the title was tending … Read More
Tags:
OVM,
DVCon,
VHDL,
Wally Rhines,
UVM,
Verification
Posted Feb 22, 2011, by J VanDomelen
The hot news in mil/aero this week centers on UVM, Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) released yesterday by Accellera. The electronics industry organization, which is focused on electronic design automation (EDA) and intellectual property (IP) standards, has approved version 1.0 of its UVM standard for verifying integrated circuit (IC) designs.
Accellera’s Verification IP (VIP) Technical … Read More
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UVM,
Universal Verification Methodology,
Milaero,
Design,
Design Automation,
Open Verification Methodology,
OVM,
TSC,
Accellera,
IC,
Mentor,
Mentor Graphics,
integrated circuit,
Mentor.com,
EDA,
Mil-Aero,
electronic design automation,
IP,
intellectual property,
John Lenyo,
Verification IP (VIP) Technical Subcommittee (TSC),
VIP
Posted Jan 28, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) 2.1 Improves Verification Productivity
The Accellera Interface Technical Subcommittee (ITC) completed version 2.1 of the standard used to interface software and hardware-based verification technology. With SCE-MI, models can be developed for simulation to run in an emulation environment and visa versa.
The major addition to SCE-MI 2.1 is support … Read More
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UVM,
DVCon,
EDSFair,
Accellera,
OVM,
SCE-MI
Posted Dec 3, 2010, by Harry Foster
As the saying goes: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. With that said, I am excited to announce a new module focused on Verification Planning, which has been one of the Verification Academy’s most-requested subjects for new content. The new Verification Planning module is delivered by our subject matter expert, who literally wrote the book on the subject, Peet James.
The goal of verification planning … Read More
Tags:
Functional Verification,
OVM,
Assertion-Based Verification,
Verification Methodology,
UVM,
Verification Academy
Jim Martens
John Day
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Tom Fitzpatrick
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton