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The Verification Academy is organized into a collection of free online courses (modules) and resources, focusing on key aspects of advanced functional verification. Each course consists of multiple sessions—allowing the participant to pick and choose specific topics of interest, as well as revisit any specific topics for future reference. In addition, each session identifies its appropriate target audience, which includes:

Crawl: content is technical, but at an introductory level, and of interest to novice engineers.
Walk: content is of general interest, particularly to managers, but also engineers.
Run: content is technical in nature, and of interest to engineers.

The Verification Academy will provide you with a unique opportunity to develop an understanding of how to mature your organization's processes so that you can then reap the benefits that advanced functional verification offers.

UVM - Universal Verification Methodology

The Verification Academy is the most complete UVM Online resource. You’ll find everything you need to get up to speed on UVM, whether it’s downloading the kit(s), the documentation and code examples from the Verification Methodology Cookbook, Academy Forums or online training courses.

UVM Framework: A combination of a class library and a code generator, delivered as part of the Questa® Advanced Verification, that enables you to build a UVM testbench within an hour. Providing an architecture and reuse methodology, it allows verification teams, whether they are experienced or new to UVM, to assemble operational UVM testbenches, including industry-standard Questa VIP components, freeing the team to focus on verifying product features. The UVM testbenches developed with UVM Framework are also compatible with our Veloce® emulator.

UVM Connect: An open-source UVM-based library that provides TLM1 and TLM2 connectivity and object passing between SystemC and SystemVerilog UVM models and components. It also provides a UVM Command API for accessing and controlling UVM simulation from SystemC (or C or C++). New 2.3.2 Kit available for download.

Overview

Industry recognized Subject Matter Expert commentary spanning multiple Verification disciplines giving you abroad perspective and knowledge of the subject being covered.

Thirty Courses providing you over sixty hours of instructional material that can be applied immediately in your work environment.

Video content accessible in the latest HTML5 formats including tablet and mobile devices.

The Verification Methodology Cookbook features extensive documentation and code examples that are only available for download on the Verification Academy.

Verification Academy Patterns Library – a collection of solutions from specification to methodology to implementation across multiple verification engines including formal, simulation, and emulation.

Academy Forums with over 15.6K Questions asked and 80K registered users.

Verification Academy Courses

Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

In this course, you will be introduced to the concept of sequential logic equivalence checking and its common applications. You will also learn how to start with Questa® SLEC to verify design optimization, bug fix/ECOs, low power clock gating logic, and safety mechanisms.

UVM Basics

UVM Basics should raise a user's level of UVM knowledge to the point where users have sufficient confidence in their own technical understanding that it becomes less of a barrier to adoption.

Advanced UVM

Advanced UVM builds upon the concepts covered in the Basic UVM course to take your UVM understanding to the next level.

Introduction to ISO 26262

The purpose of this course is to provide engineers and managers with a basic understanding of the key concepts of ISO 26262. This includes information on the scope of the standard, how the standard addresses the broader automotive supply chain, and key requirements defined at each phase of the product lifecycle.

Portable Stimulus Basics

This course will provide an introduction to the new Portable Test and Stimulus Standard, starting with a discussion of the need for and goals of the standard, taking the viewer through the actual standard itself to provide an understanding of how to create your own specification of Portable Stimulus and then showing how a tool can generate UVM, C or other implementations of the test for your required platform.

Introduction to DO-254

DO-254 has been around for over 15 years and has been applied almost exclusively in the commercial Aerospace industry. Because it has been focused in a subset of the electronic hardware market, many engineers and companies have little to no knowledge of DO-254.

UVM Framework - One Bite at a Time

In this course you will learn more about UVM Framework and how it that provides a reusable UVM methodology and code generator for rapid testbench generation.

Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification

In this course, you will be introduced to techniques to help formal tools solve inconclusive assertions. You will also learn tool options to help convergence, introduce techniques for reducing assertion and design complexity.

Formal Coverage

Formal coverage is a hot topic these days. Simulation has a number of metrics for helping determine when verification is done. These include code coverage, assertions coverage, transaction coverage, and functional coverage to name a few.

UVM Debug

In this course, we examine common UVM debug issues, and provide a systematic set of recommendations to effectively address them.

SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification

The SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification course is aimed at introducing the OOP features in SystemVerilog most commonly used by the UVM in the simplest form.

An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit

SVUnit is an open-source test framework for ASIC and FPGA developers writing Verilog/SystemVerilog code. SVUnit is the only SystemVerilog test framework suited for both design and verification engineers.

Power Aware CDC Verification

In this course, you will learn the low power CDC methodology by discussing the low power CDC challenges, describing the UPF-related power logic structures relevant to CDC analysis, and explaining a low power CDC verification methodology.

Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology

This course introduces basic concepts and terminology that should be useful by any engineer wishing to mature their formal-based technology skills.

Formal Assertion-Based Verification

In this course the instructors will show how to get started with direct property checking.

Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions

After a brief introductory session outlining the general architecture of formal apps, in each subsequent session of the course will deep dive on a specific verification challenge and the corresponding formal application.

Introduction to the UVM

The Introduction to the UVM course consists of twelve sessions that will guide you from rudimentary SystemVerilog through a complete UVM testbench.

Assertion-Based Verification

This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s assertion-based-verification (ABV) skills, infrastructure, and metrics.

Power Aware Verification

This course introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) for specification of active power management architectures and covers the use of UPF in simulation-based power aware verification.

VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

VHDL-2008 matters because it facilitates advanced verification, adds reusable data structures, simplifies RTL coding and adds fixed and floating point math packages.

Improve AMS Verification Quality

This course will introduce some methodologies available in AMS design environments that could help quantify the quality of the AMS verification process.

Improve AMS Verification Performance

This course will introduce the various modeling practices available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.

AMS Design Configuration Schemes

This course will introduce the various techniques available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.

Metrics in SoC Verification

This course identifies a range of metrics across multiple aspects of today’s SoC functional verification process.

UVM Connect

UVM Connect will demonstrate how to reuse your SystemC architectural models and/or reuse SystemVerilog UVM agents to verify models in SystemC.

Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0

This course advocates that functional verification through modern SystemC testbenches paired with co-emulation enables further verification productivity improvements.

Verification Planning and Management

This course will define terms, logically divide up the verification effort, and lay the foundation for actual verification planning and management on a real project.

Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities

This course introduces techniques for addressing complexity by evolving your organization’s FPGA verification process capabilities.

Clock-Domain Crossing Verification

This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification skills, infrastructure, and metrics.

Evolving Verification Capabilities

This course provides a common framework for all advanced functional verification courses contained within the Verification Academy.

SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration

This course will give you the confidence required to start the process of investigating and creating a single testbench environment for both simulation and hardware-assisted acceleration.

Verification Academy Seminars

The “Formal 101” Series: Learn Formal the Easy Way

Everyone wants exhaustive verification, and thus people want to learn more about formal property checking flows and tools. But they either don’t where to start, or they are afraid that the learning curve will be protracted and confusing.

Good news: this series of on-demand presentations are designed to help anyone who is familiar with VHDL, Verilog, SystemC, or C++ quickly learn the basics of formal.

DAC 2021

On-Demand Webinars

Missed the live webinar? Want to replay a broadcast?

Now you can, view our on-demand library of webinar recordings.

Improving RTL Quality

RTL quality issues continue to impact development projects. These are often found late in the project when they are most expensive to find and fix. A static and formal flow focused on improving RTL quality automates verification for the designer and improves verification efficiency, resulting in more predictable development at a lower cost.

Verification Forum 2021: Automotive Functional Safety

This series of webinars provides perspective on the impact to companies developing automotive ICs, IP and SoCs. We provide you an overview of the requirements and challenges dealing with functional safe designs as well as information of various flows for fault analysis and benefits of hardware accelerated verification. You will learn how we support you implementing new processes and tools with our consulting and training experts.

Preparing for PCIe® 6.0

In this webinar series we will review final release of the PCIe® 6.0 specification led by PCI-SIG® and all the changes it entails.

Siemens EDA Functional Verification Webinar Series

Now that we have fully transitioned from Mentor, a Siemens business to Siemens EDA, we are excited to keep you informed of the many great things we’ve been able to accomplish under our new name. We will be sharing weekly webinar presentations with you over the coming months so that you can see what we’ve been up to. We’ve arranged these for you below according to areas of interest. We hope you enjoy these 30-minute sessions and find them informative.

DVCON US 2021

Siemens EDA will have several featured Sessions, Workshops, Poster, and Paper Session Recordings discussing Formal, CDC, Low-Power Verification, High-Level Synthesis, and much more!

It's Been 24 Hours - Should I Kill My Formal Run?

In this web seminar series we will show the steps you can take to make an informed decision to forge ahead, or cut your losses and regroup.

Improving Your SystemVerilog Language and UVM Methodology Skills

If you are building complex testbenches with SystemVerilog and UVM, this series is for you. The series dives into many aspects of these two areas, to give you deeper insight about how to apply the language and methodology on your projects. Whether you are new to SystemVerilog and UVM, or have been writing code for many years, take a fresh look at the fundamentals and learn some new ideas and approaches.

Visualizer Debug Environment: Advanced Debug Techniques

In these sessions you will learn how the Visualizer Debug Environment can debug and verify your complex SoCs and FPGAs.

What’s New in Functional Verification from Mentor - Spring 2020

In this 5-hour series of short product-focused sessions you will be shown how Mentor’s suite of Functional Verification tools continues to deliver productivity enhancements in all aspects verification to keep you ahead of the curve.

DVCon US 2020

Mentor will have several Tutorials, Workshops, Panels, Poster, and Booth Theater Sessions discussing Portable Stimulus, UVM , Formal, CDC, Low- Power Verification, High-Level Synthesis, and much more!

DAC 2019

User2User Silicon Valley 2019

U2U Silicon Valley explores the changing landscape of EDA in the evolving IC to Systems era.

Low Power Verification Forum

This forum will explore the new and unique low-power coverage methodologies that enable designers to verify and track how well they have tested their power management architecture.

DAC 2018

What Is Formal, And How It Works Under-the-Hood

It’s common knowledge that formal property verification – “formal”, for short – delivers exhaustive results. In a nutshell, formal tools statically analyze a design’s behavior with respect to a given set of properties, exhaustively exploring all possible input sequences in a breadth-first search manner to uncover design errors that would otherwise be missed.

How to Stay Out of the News with ISO 26262-Compliant Verification

As the transportation industry continues to increase the amount of electronics and embedded software included in its products, systems and semiconductor makers must now consider the fault tolerance of their product offerings to customers in this rapidly growing market. Fortunately, the ISO 26262 standard defines the safety level of a design via specific safety goals, safety mechanisms, and fault metrics.

Comprehensive Metrics-Based Methodology to Achieve Low-Power System-on-Chips

In this tutorial, we will step through a complete low-power methodology, and explore the different types of metrics needed at different phases of the design process. It will cover a new and unique low-power coverage methodology that enables designers to verify and track how well they have tested their power management architecture. It will also show how to track not only metrics for how much power is used in the RTL, but also how much power is still being wasted and has potential to be reduced for IP qualification. Finally, it will step through how to bring real power scenarios testing into both your power measurement and management coverage metrics to provide the final phase of power verification and validation.

Portable Stimulus Seminar

The seminar will feature user sessions that will discuss the practical value of expressing your verification intent at higher levels of abstraction and using coverage goals to generate more productive tests for your environment.

DAC 2017

The Verification Academy focuses on key aspects of advanced functional verification, including: UVM, Coverage, Assertion-Based Verification, Verification Management, CDC and Formal Verification, Acceleration, FPGA Verification, Portable Stimulus and more. At this year's Verification Academy Booth, we lined up an excellent set of industry experts to speak - covering a wide range of topics of advanced functional verification techniques.

Silicon Valley Design and Verification IP Forum

In this seminar, you will hear from DIP and VIP integrators and partners whose technical experts explore and share the latest IP-driven verification trends and solutions.

Stuck on a Desert Island without Simulation – Only Formal!

It could happen to any of us: your plane is stricken by mechanical failure and is forced on a desert island. Your only hope of rescue is to verify the RTL for a solar powered drone that will fly to the nearest civilization with your message. All you have for your EDA usage is a solar powered Linux laptop, your DUT's RTL, some planning & management tools, and formal & CDC apps -- no simulation!

The questions before you include:

Testbench Automation: How to Create a Complex Testbench in a Couple of Hours

In 2014, the semiconductor industry passed an important milestone. For the first time, the average engineering team had more verification engineers than designers. This means that any improvement in the efficiency of verifications teams has a significant impact on overall project costs and time to market.

Enterprise Debug and Analysis

Learn how improving debug productivity for an enterprise flow from block to system pre-silicon verification, virtual prototyping, emulation, as well as post-silicon validation is critical to stay on schedule and simultaneously meet quality goals.

UVM Forum

The UVM standard class library provides everything you need to build modular reusable verification environments for everything from individual IP blocks to subsystems and systems.

DAC 2016

The Verification Academy focuses on key aspects of advanced functional verification. At this year's DAC Booth, we've lined up a number of advanced functional verification sessions with industry subject matter experts.

DAC 2015

The Verification Academy focuses on key aspects of advanced functional verification, including: UVM/OVM, Coverage, Assertion-Based Verification, Verification Management, CDC and Formal Verification, Acceleration, FPGA Verification, and more. At this year's Verification Academy Booth, we lined up an excellent set of industry experts to speak - covering a wide range of topics of advanced functional verification techniques.

Verification Academy Technology Series

This series will feature sessions discussing the very latest on coverage closure, stimulus generation, fast and efficient VIP, debug techniques and more!

DVCon US 2015

Mentor has more than 20 papers and posters being presented during the conference discussing; Coverage, UVM, Verification IP, Debugging, Formal, Metrics Analysis and more!

New School Verification Technologies

Verification Academy Live delivers practical "new school" verification sessions that will discuss technologies and techniques you can start adopting to increase your verification productivity.

Industry Data and Surveys

Every two years, Mentor, A Siemens Business commissions Wilson Research Group to conduct a broad, vendor-independent survey of design verification practices around the world. Results of the functional verification study demonstrate an ongoing convergence of design and verification practices toward a common methodology.

Design & Verification in the SoC Era

This seminar will include presentations covering real-time progress tracking, trend analysis and increased automation and efficiency of the verification process.

Advanced Verification Technologies in the Real World

This seminar will include the technical details that engineers need today, blended with real users giving examples, results and advice for how these technologies were deployed on their projects.

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