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    The Verification Academy offers users multiple entry points to find the information they need. One of these entry points is through Topic collections. These topics are industry standards that all design and verification engineers should recognize. While we continue to add new topics, users are encourage to further refine collection information to meet their specific interests.

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    The Verification Academy is organized into a collection of free online courses, focusing on various 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. After completing a specific course, the participant should be armed with enough knowledge to then understand the necessary steps required for maturing their own organization’s skills and infrastructure on the specific topic of interest. 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.

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      • Introduction to DO-254
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      • Metrics in SoC Verification

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Verification Academy - The most comprehensive resource for verification training

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® Verification Solution, 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 2.3.1 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-two 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 10K Questions asked and over 54,000 users.

Verification Academy Courses

Introduction to DO-254

Introduction to DO-254 Course | Subject Matter Expert - Byron Brinson | Functional Safety Topic

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.

However, in recent years, the airplane manufacturers have sought to create or update aircraft with newer technology to make them more functional, efficient and safer. As a consequence of this initiative there are two challenges have come to the surface...

UVM Framework - One Bite at a Time

UVM Framework Course | Subject Matter Expert - Bob Oden | Univerisal Verification Methodology Topic

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

Subject Matter Expert - Jin Hou | Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification Course

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 Course | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal-Based Techniques Topic

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.

Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking Course | Subject Matter Expert - Jin Hou | Formal-Based Techniques Topic

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 Debug

UVM Debug Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Kiley | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

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

Portable Stimulus Basics

Portable Stimulus Basics Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Coverage Topic

This course will provide an introduction to the upcoming Portable 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 how a tool can generate UVM, C or other implementations of the test for your required platform.

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

Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit Course | Subject Matter Expert - Neil Johnson, XtremeEDA | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

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

Power Aware CDC Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Kurt Takara | Formal-Based Techniques Topic

Reducing power consumption is essential to mobile and handheld application chips where reduced power contributes to longer battery life while minimally impacting performance. As more designs incorporate low power strategies, CDC errors are being found in the low power structures. Since low power logic is implemented late in the design cycle, these low power CDC issues are being missed by traditional CDC techniques.

Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology

Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology Course | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Formal Based Techniques Topic

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

Formal Assertion-Based Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Based Techniques Topic

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

Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions

Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions Course | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Based Techniques Topic

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

Introduction to the UVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ray Salemi | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

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

Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) Course | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

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

Advanced UVM

Advanced UVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

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

Basic UVM

Basic UVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

Basic UVM 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.

Power Aware Verification

Power Aware Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Erich Marschner | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

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 Why It Matters Course | Subject Matter Expert - Jim Lewis | Design and Verification Languages Topic

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

Improve AMS Verfiication Quality Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ahmed Eisawy | Design and Verification Languages Topic

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

Improve AMS Verfiication Performance Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ahmed Eisawy | Design and Verification Languages Topic

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

AMS Design Configuration Schemes Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ahmed Eisawy | Design and Verification Languages Topic

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

Metrics in SoC Verification

Metrics in SoC Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Andreas Meyer | Planning, Measurement & Analysis Topic

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

UVM Connect

UVM Connect Course | Subject Matter Expert - Adam Erickson | UVM/OVM Topic

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

Acceleration of SystemC and TLM-2.0 Testbenches with Co-Emulation Course | Subject Matter Expert - John Stickley | Acceleration Topic

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

Basic OVM

Basic OVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - John Aynsley | Open Verification Methodology Topic

Basic OVM is primarily aimed at existing VHDL and Verilog engineers or managers who recognize they have a functional verification problem.

Verification Planning and Management

Verification Planning and Management Course | Subject Matter Expert - Peet James | Planning, Measurement & Analysis Topic

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

Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ray Salemi | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

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

Clock-Domain Crossing Verification

Clock-Domain Crossing Verification (CDC) Course | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Formal-Based Techniques Topic

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

Evolving Verification Capabilities

Evolving Verification Capabilities Course | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Planning, Measurement and Analysis Topic

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

SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration

SystemVerilog Testbenches Acceleration | Subject Matter Expert - Hans van der Schoot | Acceleration Topic

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.

Advanced OVM

Advanced OVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Open Verification Methodology Topic

The Advanced OVM course's goal is to improve your understanding of OVM so you can move beyond basic block-level testbenches.

Verification Academy Seminars

DAC 2018

The Verification Academy focuses on key aspects of advanced functional verification, including: UVM, Coverage, Assertion-Based Verification, Verification Management, CDC and Formal Verification, Acceleration, Requirements Verification, Portable Stimulus and more.

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.

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.

On Demand Seminars

Join the Verification Academy Subject Matter Experts for recorded seminars covering topics including; UVM, Formal Based Verification, Coverage, UPF and Power Aware, Verification IP, Stimulus Generation and Debug.

Industry Data and Surveys

Every two years, Mentor Graphics 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.

Assertion-Based Verification for FPGA and IC Design

This seminar that will provide an industry perspective on the successful adoption of ABV, as well as providing a roadmap for evolving an organization ABV capabilities.

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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