The philosophy behind our Verification Academy is to provide a comprehensive resource for evolving and maturing your functional verification process skills. We believe that each step an organization takes in evolving verification skills should have measurable results and benefits. With that in mind, I am excited to announce two new modules we are adding to the Verification Academy: UVM Express and Advanced … Read More
Tags: Verification Academy, UVM
In his recent post on UVM: Some Thoughts Before DVCon, Dennis outlined some great ideas about what we think should happen next for UVM. His 3rd point, “UVM needs to bridge the system domain,” is particularly relevant given the newly-formed Accellera Systems Initiative. This is actually an area we’ve been contemplating for a while here at Mentor, and as Dennis indicated, we shared our thoughts on this … Read More
Tags: Verification Methodology, Verification Academy, Functional Verification, SystemC, DVCon, UVM Connect, UVM-1.1, UVM
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
Tags: UVM, Tipping Point, Veloce, inFact, Intelligent Testbench Automation, Crossing the Chasam, Questa, SoC, iTBA, OVM
It is time to talk about what happens next with UVM
The Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) has become the premier event to discuss front-end design issues with an emphasis on verification. If one listens to the Conversation Central interview of DVCon leadership it is clear how singularly important DVCon is. As one of the three organizers of the UVM Tutorial on Monday, I know the conference … Read More
Tags: DATE Conference, DVCon, Accellera, UVM, SystemC
Adopting SystemVerilog can be challenging to some, and learning the UVM at the same time might seem overwhelming. There is no getting over the fact that if you are going to develop any reasonably sized testbench in SystemVerilog, you need to learn how to declare and construct a class. You also need to learn a few Object-Oriented programming principals so you can extend a UVM class into something for … Read More
Tags: UVM, Verification Methodology
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
Tags: SystemC, TLM, Accellera, 1666, OVM, TLM 1.0, TLM 2.0, UVM, OSCI, Verification Academy
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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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
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
Tags: VITAL, VHDL, VMM, OVM, Accellera, UVM, UVM World, OVM World
Well, another DAC is behind us, and you know what that means. That’s right, the super-sized DAC issue of Verification Horizons is now available online. You can download the full issue or individual articles from the Verification Horizons tab at Verification Academy.
Over the next few days, I’ll be highlighting some of the articles to give you a taste of the great content available directly … Read More
Tags: UVM, Verification Academy, Functional Verification, Verification Horizons
Jim Martens
John Day
J VanDomelen
Nazita Saye
Michael Ford
Robin Bornoff
Mike Jensen
Colin Walls
Patrick Carrier
Mark Laing
Zhen Mu
Travis Mikjaniec
Christopher Hallinan
Bernard Sutton