Aldec Design and Verification Blog Trending Articles Navigating VUnit: A Practical Guide to Modifying Testing Approaches Speeding Up Simulation with VUnit for Parallel Testing Introduction to VUnit FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell Versal ACAP Simulation Challenges Real-time SDR system with TySOM The Convergence of Emulation and Prototyping All Categories Corporate DO-254 Compliance Embedded Solutions Emulation/Acceleration FPGA Design Functional Verification High Performance Computing Requirements Management SoC and ASIC Prototyping SoC Design and Validation Specialized Applications FPGA Design Verification in a Nutshell FPGA Design Verification (Planning) in a Nutshell Before wading into this topic, I’d like to state why I felt compelled to write about FPGA design verification. I recently presented a very well attended three-part webinar series, during which many attendees asked for book recommendations.... Tags:ASIC,Coverage,Design,Functional Verification,Debugging,Documentation,Digital,SoC,Verification,Verilog,VHDL Like(0) Comments (0) Read more Is your Verification plan pulling you in multiple directions? Try FSM Coverage A quick look into FSM Coverage The verification process is long and time consuming, especially when you are not sure what you are looking for. There are a lots of directions you can go looking for bugs but without a guide, without a plan you will most likely be going in circles.... Tags:Coverage,Debugging,Design,FPGA,SystemVerilog,Verilog,VHDL Like(1) Comments (8) Read more Problems Accessing Registers? – See how UVM RAL can help As a digital design or verification engineer you know that certain features or configurations of the device can be achieved by programming some registers to set values.For example, a 32-bit register can have several fields within it... Tags:ASIC,Debugging,FPGA,Simulation,SystemVerilog,UVM,Verification Like(2) Comments (0) Read more Verification Effectiveness with Riviera-PRO: SystemVerilog Randomized Layered Testbench Understanding SystemVerilog Layered Testbench In this blog, I will discuss randomized layered testbenches used in SystemVerilog. We need to understand why we need it,... Tags:Riviera-PRO,ASIC,Assertions,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Design,Documentation,FPGA,HDL,IEEE,OS-VVM,Randomization,Simulation,standards,SystemVerilog,UVM,Verification,Verilog Like(4) Comments (0) Read more Do I really need a commercial simulator? A quick view of the benefits of a commercial simulator As an Applications Engineer I visit lots of potential customers, or talk to them at trade shows, who are doing FPGA designs but don’t own a commercial simulator. I ask them why that is. Most of the time it is budgetary restrictions. They don’t... Tags:Debugging,Design,Simulation,Verification Like(1) Comments (0) Read more Understanding the inner workings of UVM - Part 3 UVM Basics Part 3 of 3 In this blog, I am going to discuss different phases that UVM follows. The reason why UVM came up with such phases is because synchronization among all design-testbench was necessary. Using Verilog and VHDL,... Tags:ASIC,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Documentation,FPGA,OS-VVM,UVM,Verification Like(2) Comments (3) Read more Trace Your Assertions When I enter the word “assertions” into a search engine I get lots of results, including articles, books, courses, and tools. Nothing unusual there, as assertions have been present in the EDA industry for many years. They considerably increase... Tags:Assertions,Debugging,Simulation,SystemVerilog Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Understanding the inner workings of UVM - Part 2 UVM Basics Part 2 of 3 In this blog, my major focus is on explaining the concepts such as Sequence, Sequencer, Driver and showing how the communication takes place from sequence to sequencer and from sequencer to driver. In the previous blog, I included... Tags:ASIC,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Documentation,FPGA,OS-VVM,UVM,Verification Like(3) Comments (0) Read more Plots: A New Way To Analyze Data Data analysis is often a very time consuming process for a hardware design or verification engineer. We always end up using the waveform viewer which may not be very efficient in giving us a high-level overview of what we’re looking for. Data that is spread across... Tags:Co-simulation,Debugging,Hardware,Simulation,Verification Like(1) Comments (0) Read more Understanding the inner workings of UVM UVM Basics Part 1 of 3 We have all been witnesses to the rapid improvements of the iPhone processor chip every year. With the iPhone 8 featuring the newest A11 Bionic at 10 nm FinFET with 4.3 billion transistors, I can’t personally fathom the amount... Tags:ASIC,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Documentation,FPGA,OS-VVM,UVM,Verification Like(3) Comments (0) Read more
