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 The Power of PCIe in Performance-based FPGA World Understanding High speed serial data transfer In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, just what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed?... Tags:Aceleration,ASIC,Co-simulation,Documentation,Embedded,Emulation,FPGA,FPGA Simulation,Hardware,HDL,IP,Prototyping,Simulation,SoC,Validation,Verification,Xilinx Like(3) 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 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 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 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 Don’t be a Slave to the Documentation Are you a requirements engineer but your main goal is to provide well organized documentation? Do you have a great knowledge about the industry, business analysis and systems but you are struggling with the shape and look of your documentation?... Tags:ASIC,Documentation,FPGA Like(1) Comments (0) Read more 90’s Kid Active-HDL Celebrates Sweet 16 Serving FPGA Designers as the tool of choice since, like, forever As the proud Product Manager of Aldec’s FPGA Design Simulation solution, I am excited (like it was my first Cranberries concert) to announce that Active-HDL™ is celebrating 16 years since its initial release in 1997.... Tags:Assertions,Co-simulation,Coverage,Debugging,Design,Digital,Documentation,FPGA,HDL,IEEE,Matlab,OS-VVM,Simulation,standards,university,Verification,Verilog,VHDL,Xilinx Like(2) Comments (2) Read more
