Producer
In software, an entity that delivers data to a Consumer. The job of the producer is to produce data or information. That information will be passed to a consumer. In HVL, the data is normally an abstract transaction object. The abstract transaction object represents information - for example a READ transaction might contain an address and a data. That transaction is produced by the producer, and delivered to the consumer. This kind of transaction communication is referred to as transaction level communication. In UVM, there is an API to provide TLM (transaction level modeling) communication and Analysis Ports. The TLM standard and analysis ports facilitate consistent producer/consumer connectivity.
