Open Verification Methodology for SystemVerilog

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AVM Cookbook for SystemVerilog & SystemC 3.0-Update-3

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The Open Verification Methodology Enables Simulator, Verification IP, and Language Interoperability to Deliver on Promise of SystemVerilog.

OVM is based on the IEEE 1800 SystemVerilog standard and supports design and verification engineers developing advanced verification environments that offer higher levels of integration and portability of Verification IP. The methodology is non-vendor specific and represents interoperability with multiple languages and simulators. OVM is fully open, and includes a robust class library and source code.

Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM) Cookbook for SystemVerilog and SystemC

The only way to ensure the integrity of the largely manual transition from the system-level to RTL is to put together an environment that can effectively verify the design at multiple levels of abstraction.  It must also make it easy for users to take advantage of functional coverage, constrained-random stimulus generation, assertions, and other advanced verification techniques. The Mentor Graphics® Advanced Verification Methodology is the first, true, system-level-to-RTL verification methodology that allows you to apply leading-edge verification technologies to designs at multiple levels of abstraction, using multiple languages. The AVM provides libraries of base classes and modules in open-source form and uses TLM interfaces as the communication mechanism between verification components.The AVM CookBook for SystemVerilog & SystemC kit includes extensive runnable examples, in both SystemVerilog and SystemC, and extensive, book-form documentation that discusses the different concepts introduced in each example.

  • Multiple Levels of Abstraction. True system-level-to-RTL verification methodology
  • Advanced Verification. Supports advanced verification technologies, such as constrained-random stimulus, functional coverage, and assertions.
  • Testbench Reuse. Includes a set of executable examples, libraries, and extensive documentation (the Advanced Verification Methodology Cookbook for SystemVerilog & SystemC) for developing modular, reusable testbenches.
  • Open Source. Open and non-proprietary code is freely available to anyone under an open-source
    Apache 2.0 license.
  • Standard Languages. Based on standard languages, it uses only 100 percent LRM-compliant code
    SystemVerilog and SystemC. As a result, code is reusable and “future-proof.”
  • TLM Standard. Based on the OSCI TLM standard, implemented in both SystemC and
    SystemVerilog, making it easy to link to embedded software and transaction-level models. 
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Mentor Graphics provides the cookbook examples in open source form under the Apache-2.0 license. While we will make every effort to ensure the examples work correctly, we do not guarantee the correctness or applicability of the code.
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