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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.

    • Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)

      • UVMF - One Bite at a Time
      • Introduction to UVM
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      • Advanced UVM
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      • Introduction to DO-254
      • Portable Stimulus Basics
      • SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification
      • Power Aware Verification
      • Power Aware CDC Verification
      • Assertion-Based Verification
      • Metrics in SoC Verification

    • Additional Courses

      • Clock-Domain Crossing Verification
      • An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit
      • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
      • SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration
      • Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0
      • Verification Planning and Management
      • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

    • Formal-Based Techniques

      • Formal Assertion-Based Verification
      • Formal Coverage
      • Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions
      • Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology
      • Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification
      • Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

    • Analog/Mixed Signal

      • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
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    The Verification Community is eager to answer your UVM, SystemVerilog and Coverage related questions. We encourage you to take an active role in the Forums by answering and commenting to any questions that you are able to.

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    The Verification Academy Patterns Library contains a collection of solutions to many of today's verification problems. The patterns contained in the library span across the entire domain of verification (i.e., from specification to methodology to implementation—and across multiple verification engines such as formal, simulation, and emulation).

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    Find all the methodology you need in this comprehensive and vast collection. The UVM and Coverage Cookbooks contain dozens of informative, executable articles covering all aspects of UVM and Coverage.

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    • Coverage Cookbook

      • Introduction
      • What is Coverage?
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      • Bus Protocol Coverage
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      • SoC Coverage Example
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      • Coverage Cookbook
  • All Events
    No one argues that the challenges of verification are growing exponentially. What is needed to meet these challenges are tools, methodologies and processes that can help you transform your verification environment. These recorded seminars from Verification Academy trainers and users provide examples for adoption of new technologies and how to evolve your verification process.

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  • DVCon US 2015

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!

Hear from Harry Foster and Stephen Bailey on the state of verification past, present and future while examining the results from a recent industry world-wide verification study. The talk will examine how advanced techniques are taking hold in mainstream design and provide insights on the recent convergence of verification solutions to meet today’s growing challenges.

View more interviews, tutorials, papers and poster papers from DVCon US 2015.

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Bob Oden
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From Tightly Coupled (Loosely Bolted) to Verification Convergence!

DVCon US 2015 - Sponsored Luncheon - From Tightly Coupled (Loosely Bolted) to Verification Convergence!

This featured luncheon from DVCon US 2015 discusses the state of verification past, present and future while examining the results from a recent industry world-wide verification study.

UVM Rapid Adoption: A Practical Subset of UVM

DVCon US 2015 - UVM Rapid Adoption - A Practical Subset of UVM

This featured DVCon 2015 session focusses on defining a subset of the UVM base classes, methods, and macros that will enable engineers to learn UVM more quickly. You might be surprised at just how small of a subset of UVM is really needed in order to verify complex designs effectively with UVM.

Goldilocks and System Performance Modeling

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Goldilocks and System Performance Modeling - A SystemVerilog Adaptive Rate Control (ARC) Stimulus Generation Methodology

This paper focuses on the process of verification of a System-on-a-Chip (SoC) consisting of multiple ARM® AMBA® AXI™ bus fabrics with mix of RTL IP and verification IP master and/or slave blocks.

Not Just for Hardware Debug: Prototype Debuggers for System Validation and Optimization

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Not Just for Hardware Debug: Prototype Debuggers for System Validation and Optimization

This paper explores how the use of embedded debug instrumentation in modern FPGA prototype debuggers can meet the emerging need for system-level debug.

Are You Smarter Than Your Testbench? With a Little Work You Can Be

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Are You Smarter Than Your Testbench? With a Little Work You Can Be

This paper will discuss ways to keep check on the testbench performance and to understand the functionality being implemented and the effectiveness of the tests.

Want a Boost in Your Regression Throughput?

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Want a Boost in Your Regression Throughput? Simulate Common Setup Phase Only Once

This paper will discuss how to write the design so that the common initial setup phase simulation is done once and then used as a foundation to run different tests later on, including the ability to change test stimulus to simulate different test behaviors.

The Big Brain Theory: Visualizing SoC Design & Verification Data

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - The Big Brain Theory - Visualizing SoC Design & Verification Data

This paper describes the challenge of maximizing utilization of the best design/verification tool we possess - our engineering brains.

Coverage Data Exchange is No Robbery... Or Is It?

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Coverage Data Exchange is No Robbery... Or Is It?

This paper introduces a method of exchanging data between two-UCIS compliant coverage database systems without the need for inefficient formats like ASCII or XML.

Jump-Start Software-Driven Hardware Verification with a Verification Framework

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Jump-Start Software-Driven Hardware Verification with a Verification Framework

This paper describes the benefits of having such a framework and proposes key features of a verification framework for software-driven hardware verification.

Successive Refinement: A Methodology for Incremental Specification of Power Intent

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Successive Refinement: A Methodology for Incremental Specification of Power Intent

In this paper, we present the UPF Successive Refinement methodology in detail. We explain how power management constraints can be specified for IP blocks to ensure correct usage in a power-managed system.

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