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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 ISO 26262
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      • Assertion-Based Verification
      • An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit
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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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    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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  • Featured Presentations from DVCon US 2022

Featured Presentations from DVCon US 2022

Sessions from DVCon US illustrated how design and verification teams can improve design quality to reduce ASIC and FPGA bugs before the integration phase.

   DVCON US 2022


Best Poster: 2nd Place

Why not “Connect” using UVM Connect: Mixed Language communication got easier with UVMC

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Vishal Baskar - Siemens EDA

Overview:

   DVCon 2022 Best Paper - 2nd Place

With the increasing use of mixed language in today’s semiconductor and design industry, the question arises of how to effectively verify such complex designs. Thanks to the merger between Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) and Accellera, SystemC and UVM can be easily connected via TLM 1.0 and 2.0. This allows complex models in SystemC to help verify complex designs in SystemVerilog. UVM Connect was developed to make this process consistent and easy to debug. The Hybrid SC-SV model enables abstraction refinements at various levels, SystemC being a sweet spot for high-level modeling.

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Best Paper: 3rd Place

What Does the Sequence Say? Powering Productivity with Polymorphism

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Rich Edelman - Siemens EDA

Overview:

   DVCon 2022 Best Paper - 3rd Place

In a SystemVerilog UVM testbench a UVM sequence is much like a program or a function call or a test. Writing interesting sequences can help with productivity and coverage closure. On one hand a sequence is simply a list of instructions, but on the other hand how those instructions are built or how they are used with other instructions can improve the test. This paper will demonstrate such improvements.

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Featured Workshop

The Best Verification Strategy You’ve Never Heard Of

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: David Aerne, Amir Attarha, Harry Foster, Kurt Takara - Siemens EDA

Overview:

The latest data from the bi-annual Wilson Research Group Functional Verification survey show that, despite more than a decade of effort in establishing new verification methodologies and techniques, the problem of how to produce functionally-correct ASIC or FPGA based electronic components is still a challenge. The median project schedule for both ASIC and FPGA projects is 10-12 months, which isn’t really that much time. Digging a little deeper, however, we see that over two thirds of the projects surveyed, both ASIC and FPGA, are completed behind schedule. A cynical observer might conclude that this also shows that one third of the respondents are lying, but even if that is not the case, clearly there is a problem.

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Tutorial

Accellera - PSS In the Real World

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: Tom Fitzpatrick - Siemens EDA, Matan Vax - Cadence, Adnan Hamid - Breker, Hillel Miller - Synopsys

Overview:

The tutorial will highlight the power and flexibility of the Portable Stimulus Standard from Accellera by walking through several real-world examples. Beginning with a brief overview of the standard, we will show how to use PSS to model stimulus for a variety of applications, from which multiple target-specific test implementations may be generated.

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Workshop

UVM-AMS: An Update on the Accellera UVM

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Tom Fitzpatrick - Siemens EDA

Overview:

In this workshop, the WG would share the findings, requirements and ideas collected so far and the next step plan for the standardization and would like to receive feedback from the analog/mixed-signal verification community. The UVM-AMS tutorial will also share the latest standardization and technology developments as (being) published in the Accellera UVM-AMS whitepaper. The following main aspects of the UVM-AMS standard under consideration will be discussed at high level in this Workshop.

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Paper

Co-Developing IP and SoC Bring-up Firmware with PSS

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Matthew Ballance - Siemens EDA

Overview:

Runtime-configuration and operation of design IP is increasingly dependent on firmware. However, firmware for those IPs is often created too late, and in an unsuitable form, to be helpful in SoC bring-up tests. This presents an obstacle to creating SoC integration tests, and often results in late discovery of hardware/software interaction issues. This paper proposes an Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus (PSS) -enabled flow for co-developing and co-verifying design IP and firmware.

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Workshop

Estimating Power Dissipation of End-User Application on RTL

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: Kevin Hotaling, Magdy El-Moursy - Siemens EDA

Overview:

A methodology to estimate the power dissipation of an end-user application on the Register Transfer Level (RTL) model of the target SoC platform is presented. Advanced Driving Assistance System (ADAS) of a vehicle is used as a case-study for the presented methodology. The methodology uses hybrid RTL simulation and emulation to run the heterogeneous automotive system. The methodology allows Software and Model to be included in the simulation Loop (known as Software and Model in the Loop, SiL and MiL, respectively).

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Paper

Avoid the Pitfalls of Mixing Formal & Simulation Coverage

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: Mark Eslinger, Joe Hupcey III, Nicolae Tusinschi - Siemens EDA

Overview:

Driven by the need to objectively measure the progress of their verification efforts, and the relative contributions of different verification techniques, customers have adopted “coverage” as a metric. However, what exactly is being measured is different depending on underlying verification technology in use. In this paper we will first review what these forms of “coverage” are telling the user, and how to merge them together in a manner that accurately reports status and expected behaviors.

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Poster

Modeling Analog Devices using SV-RNM

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Mariam Maurice - Siemens EDA

Overview:

This paper covers new technical thinking in modeling analog devices using defined nets, boundary elements and interconnects. How these definitions can help modeling analog devices such as DACs, ADCs, LDOs, Filters, and Image Sensor. Many debugging techniques are illustrated since debugging and visualization of RNM constructs are important during the integration of a complete analog device and during connecting an analog-modeled device to a digital one.

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Paper

Confidently Sign-off any Low-Power Designs without Consequences

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: Madhur Bhargava, Jitesh Bansal, Progyna Khondkar - Siemens EDA

Overview:

In this paper, we will provide an in-depth analysis of various low-power design issues that are on a faced daily basis. By taking relevant examples and case studies, this paper demonstrates how these issues can be either avoided or solved during RTL bring up phase. Based on the dynamic verification & coverage techniques, this paper includes an efficient low-power verification methodology which can be followed for signing off the chip without consequences.

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Paper

Path-based UPF Strategies Optimally Manage Power on your Designs

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Progyna Khondkar - Siemens EDA

Overview:

UPF 3.0 and 3.1 LRM combinedly introduces path-based semantics for isolation, level-shifter, and repeater strategies in conjunction with -sink and -diff_supply_only TRUE commands. This paper addresses the complexity of adoption path-based strategies through numerous examples and real designs, so that UPF user can smoothly transit from port-based adhoc to path-based standard methodology, and understand how isolation, level-shifter and repeater strategies and cells are inferred between source and sink power domain.

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Paper

Avoiding Confounding Configurations: An RDC Methodology for Configurable Designs

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Authors: Eamonn Quigley, Jonathan Niven - Arm, Kurt Takara, Christopher Giles - Siemens EDA

Overview:

Requirements for asynchronous reset behavior extend the complexities of Clock Domain Crossings as designs add reset domains to meet power and functional requirements. Design configurability common in IP development and in construction of subsystems built of configurable elements introduces challenges to the verification of Reset Domain Crossings (RDC). This paper outlines an approach to RDC verification that efficiently addresses these challenges.

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Workshop

System Verification with MatchLib

Released on March 23rd, 2022

Author: Russell Klein - Siemens EDA

Overview:

MatchLib is a SystemC based throughput accurate communication package developed by Nvidia and available as open-source. It can be used to model common buses like AXI. It enables much faster simulation of a design while retaining throughput accuracy. At some point in the design cycle one or more processors will be included in the design, along with software. This workshop will describe how to bring a processor into a MatchLib design in 3 forms: host code execution, fast processor model, and RTL. We will walk though examples using the RISC-V Rocket core, a MatchLib modeled interconnect, and a simple inferencing application.

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