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
Tags:
UVM,
Tipping Point,
Veloce,
inFact,
Intelligent Testbench Automation,
Crossing the Chasam,
Questa,
SoC,
iTBA,
OVM
Posted Dec 13, 2011, by Mark Olen
Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed
If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen the pressure put on referees and umpires. They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action just a single time. But watching at home on television, we get the luxury of viewing multiple replays of events in question … Read More
Tags:
Verification,
testbench,
Software as a Testbench,
SoC,
Functional Verification,
Cortex,
SoC Level Verification,
ARM
Posted Apr 15, 2011, by Dennis Brophy
Watch DVCon Co-Located Event Presentations
Two presentations from the second annual SystemC Day at DVCon 2011 are available now. The first presentation is the keynote by Jim Hogan, serial EDA entrepreneur at Vista Ventures, LLC and the second is an introduction to the emerging IEEE Std. 1666™, SystemC standard by Jim Aynsley at Doulos. SystemC Day brought users together to discuss the current state … Read More
Tags:
SystemC,
esl,
1666,
OSCI,
SoC,
Jim Aynsley,
Jim Hogan
Posted Oct 7, 2009, by Ralph Zak
Transaction-Based Verification is a technique for verifying modern SoC designs with interfaces such as PCI express, using test benches at the transaction level of abstraction. Transaction-based verification complements directed and constrained random tests, and is an emerging methodology for verifying complex SoCs that have multiple on-chip standard bus and peripheral interfaces. Typically in a transaction-based … Read More
Tags:
TBV,
System on Chip,
Transaction-Based Verification,
Emulation,
FPGA Prototyping,
ASIC Emulation,
SoC,
SoC Verification,
Simulation Server Farms
Posted Jul 20, 2009, by Ralph Zak
This is my first blog posting about SoC Emulation for verification of SoC designs. To set the stage, along with my biases, I am currently employed by Mentor Graphics and responsible for business development in the Emulation Division. I am an un-apologetic, evangelist for hardware-based verification.
My experiences with hardware assisted verification began with simulation accelerators in the 80’s … Read More
Tags:
SoC Prototyping,
SoC Emulation,
ASIC Emulation,
ASIC Verification,
EDA,
Prototyping,
SoC,
FPGA Boards,
FPGA Prototyping
