How to get a guide to take practice with exmaple of ovm

OVM
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So far,I did not see any tutorial or cookbook which can help me to take practice with example of ovm.
How can i start from?:confused:

Thank you!

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Hi,

There is an on-line OVM tutorial “Getting Started with OVM” on our web site. You can also download a PDF version of the tutorial and the source code - see http://www.doulos.com/knowhow/sysverilog/

Regards,
Dave

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Is there any webinar based tutorials from either Mentor or Cadence yet? I think that would be really useful

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Hi,

Currently, I’m in charge of verification at module level, for this task we use ‘e’ language.

We want to evaluate verification with SystemVerilog and verify one module with this methodology.

I would to know what are the pre-requites to shift to OVM?

Thanks and regards,
Ludovic.

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Hi Ludovic,

The prerequisites to adopting OVM are:

  1. A SystemVerilog simulator that supports the required language features - the current versions of Cadence Incisive and Mentor QuestaSim are both OK.

  2. A good working knowledge of SystemVerilog, including an understanding of how to use classes (instantiation, inheritance, virtual tasks/functions, etc).

If your team are already very familiar with Verilog but have no SystemVerilog experience, I would say it would take four or five days of intensive training (ideally followed by several weeks of using SystemVerilog) to get them to a point where they could start to look at OVM. If they are VHDL users with no Verilog experience, it would take a little longer to pick up SystemVerilog.

If you are looking to start evaluating OVM on a project as soon as possible, you will probably want to consider taking OVM training rather than teaching yourself. Several of the regular contributors to this forum offer OVM training courses (including Doulos - our course is 3 days with a prerequisite working knowledge of SystemVerilog).

Regards,
Dave

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Hi , i am a begineer for OVM but have knowledge of SV.
I am not able to find any OVM tutorial through simple example.

Is there any tutorial available which gives some examples(kind of mini project like AMBA APB verification/SPI/UART verification) and explain use of OVM?

I am scratching my head from last 3 days but not getting anything…

Thanks in advance.

Suyog
suyog255@gmail.com

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Hi Suyog,

You can download the package of OVM from this site. Included with the package is UserGuide, ReferenceGuide, examples of OVM and source code.

In the examples, you will get a complete flow understanding and basic fundamentals of usage of OVM. They have explained by building verification env for XBUS. The source code is also available.

Hope this helps.

Ashish

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Hi Suyog,

If you are looking for something that is a bit more complex than the examples on the Doulos web site, have you considered working through the xbus example that is provided with the OVM download? This contains examples all of the major components required to test a bus-based system and is described in the OVM User Guide.

Regards,
Dave

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Hi,

XBUS example in the ovm download package is a good start. You will find it in the directory “examples/xbus/examples/” in latest ovm package.

In the OVM_UserGuide.pdf you will find the explanation/architecture of the xbus example.

Thanks,
Puneet
http://www.asicguru.com

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