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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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The Verification Academy is organized into a collection of free online courses, which we also refer to as modules, focusing on various key aspects of advanced functional verification. Each course module 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 or module, 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

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.

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