Posted Oct 14, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
23rd Synopsys EDA Interoperability Forum Features a Verification Session with focus on the UVM Register Package
As readers of the Verification Horizons BLOG know from recent posts, progress towards a register & memory facility in UVM 1.0 is well underway. While the Accellera VIP-TSC is making good progress, limited information is available to non-participants. This limited knowledge is true for … Read More
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Posted Sep 7, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
Mentor Announces Collaboration with Synopsys on Joint Register Package Candidate
Mentor has recently teamed with Synopsys to collaborate on the Synopsys RAL candidate to provide extensions that meet our register package requirements. Because of this, it allowed us to withdraw our candidate from consideration by the Accellera VIP-TSC recently.
Further, as part of the Accellera VIP-TSC UVM development … Read More
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Posted May 28, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
UVM Layering Package updated from OVM Layering Package
In an earlier blog post, I discussed a sequence layering technique that Mentor verification technologists had created and presented on at DVCon 2010, based on OVM. This package has been updated and tested to work with UVM 1.0 EA and is ready for download.
As a reminder, the UVM Layering 1.0 Package, like the OVM one, provides the means to add … Read More
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Posted May 19, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
Mentor supplies the first Register Package for UVM
As I mentioned in my earlier blog post to disclose Mentor’s support of UVM-EA on the Questa Verification Platform, we would bring forward other OVM elements and make them UVM ready. We have done this for the OVM register package.
For those who are looking at the UVM-EA and want to avail themselves of additional UVM-ready value added elements, you … Read More
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Posted May 12, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
Download Now
A new OVM Layering Package that provides a means to add layers of tests (sequences) without modifying the underlying testbench and without extending components or using the factory to override implementation is available for download.
The DVCon 2010 paper on this topic, You Are In a Maze of Twisty Little Sequences, All Alike – or Layering Sequences for Stimulus Abstraction, is also … Read More
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Posted May 10, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
In January 2010 we released the OVM 1.0 Register Package. It has now been updated to enhance capabilities and address issues raised by users. The updated contribution can be downloaded from OVM World.
The OVM 2.0 Register Package builds on 1.0 with new built-in register tests, easier cloning and copying of registers and register maps. The code has been ported to other implementations besides Questa.
A … Read More
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Posted Feb 23, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
Duolog Joins Agnisys to Add Reg Pac Support
The OVM 1.0 Register Package has had a lot of interest since uploaded a few weeks back. With more than 1,100 downloads and counting, it is being qualified for use and deployment in a growing number of user verification environments.
Complementing the availability of the OVM 1.0 Register Package is support by partners with their applications that promote … Read More
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Posted Jan 26, 2010, by Dennis Brophy
After months of field testing and several beta releases the past few years, Mentor Graphics has released the OVM 1.0 Register Package. The package can be download from the OVMWorld.org contributions area.
The download includes complete online HTML-based documentation at your fingertips. You can use the navigation bar at left to expand categories and click on the topic of choice. The body of the documentation … Read More
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