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• The UVM Factory Revealed - Part 1

  Resource (Verification Horizons Blog) - Jan 20, 2023 by Chris Spear

  When you first learn UVM, most of the concepts make sense, even if you are new to Object-Oriented Programming. Except one, the UVM Factory. Why do you need all that extra code, class::type_id::create(), just to make an object? What’s wrong with just calling new()? The answer is teamwork!

• Does Your UVM Flavor Have Sprinkles?

  Resource (Verification Horizons Blog) - Jan 20, 2023 by Chris Spear

  UVM is a standard, so that means that every company writes their testbenches the same, universally interchangeable, right? Not exactly. I just got back from teaching in Europe. No matter where the engineers grew up, they all spoke English, each with a different accent. I think that I don’t have an accent, having grown up in Alaska, but my coworkers in Texas and London would disagree. Let’s look at some of the different accents and flavors of UVM.

• Learning Center: Visualizer Training (On-Demand)

  Resource (Learning Center) - Jan 01, 2023 by Siemens Learning Center

  The Visualizer course will help you to effectively use Visualizer™ Debug Environment to verify your design and explore your UVM based testbench.

• Learning Center: Visualizer Training (Instructor Led)

  Resource (Learning Center) - Jan 01, 2023 by Siemens Learning Center

  The Visualizer course will help you to effectively use Visualizer™ Debug Environment to verify your design and explore your UVM based testbench.

• SystemVerilog for Verification: Self-Paced Course

  Resource (Learning Center) - Jan 01, 2023 by Siemens Learning Center

  Learn about SystemVerilog fundamental and advanced verification constructs. SystemVerilog for Verification / Exam 12 month subscription, On-Demand Training

• SystemVerilog UVM: Self-Paced Course

  Resource (Learning Center) - Jan 01, 2023 by Siemens Learning Center

  Learn how to create a reusable testbench from ground up using SystemVerilog UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) and how to add a UVM Register Model. SystemVerilog UVM / Exam UVM Intermediate / Exam 12 month subscription, On-Demand Training

• Understanding and Using Immediate Assertions

  Article - Dec 01, 2022 by Ben Cohen

  Immediate assertions are typically used to verify that expressions are within their required bounds, such as no overreach of the value of a counter or an illegal condition such a write without an enable. The action block is typically used for debug to display more information as to the cause of the error. However, immediate assertions can also be used to modify testbench variables for use in monitors or in other assertions, or to change the course of a testbench flow.

• Dig a Pool of Specialized SystemVerilog Classes

  Resource (Verification Horizons Blog) - Oct 17, 2022 by Chris Spear

  SystemVerilog classes are a great way to encapsulate both variables and the routines that operates on them. What if you want to reuse the methods but change the type of properties? Use a parameter and specialize it!

• SystemVerilog: Implicit handles

  Resource (Verification Horizons Blog) - Sep 06, 2022 by Chris Spear

  How can your routine access a class-level variable when there is a local variable with the same name? This often happens when a set() method or the constructor initializes a class property with an argument. A common style is to give the argument the same name as the class property, such as weight shown here. If the assignment was just “weight = weight”, both names would refer to the closest definition, which is the routine argument.

• SystemVerilog: Class Member Visibility

  Resource (Verification Horizons Blog) - Aug 29, 2022 by Chris Spear

  With most OOP languages, you are encouraged to limit direct access to class members, especially properties (variables), to prevent this sort of bug. The recommendation is to create set() and get() methods. In SystemVerilog, the default access is public, which means that other code can read and write properties and call all methods (routines). There is no keyword for this behavior.

• Reflections on Users’ Experiences with SVA - Part II

  Article - Jul 05, 2022 by Ben Cohen

  During my years of contributions to the Verification Academy SystemVerilog Forum, I have seen many trends in real users’ difficulties in the application of assertions, and misunderstandings of how SVA works. In Part 1 of this article, I addressed the difficulties in expressing requirements for assertions, and clarified some critical SVA concepts concerning terminology, threads, and vacuity.

• Easy Testbench Speedups

  Article - Jul 05, 2022 by Eileen Hickey - Doulos Inc.

  As a Doulos ‘techie’, I train over 100 engineers in SystemVerilog and UVM each year. I do believe quite soundly, that the effort of simulation verification is an art, supported by the language. So, regardless of the language, I have a ready list of useful testbench coding strategies to achieve faster regression CPU cycle execution. This means more regression tests executed in the same amount of ‘wall-clock’ time!

• UVM Connect

  Track - May 23, 2022 by Adam Erickson

  UVM Connect will demonstrate how to reuse your SystemC architectural models and/or reuse SystemVerilog UVM agents to verify models in SystemC.

• SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification

  Track - May 23, 2022 by Dave Rich

  The SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification is aimed at introducing the OOP features in SystemVerilog most commonly used by the UVM in the simplest form.

• Advanced UVM

  Track - May 23, 2022 by Tom Fitzpatrick

  Advanced UVM builds upon the concepts covered in Basic UVM to take your UVM understanding to the next level.

• Accelerate Development Using Advanced Debugging Approaches

  Webinar - May 10, 2022 by Rich Edelman

  In this session, you will learn how Visualizer Debug Environment provides a high-performance, high-capacity, tightly integrated debug environment for Simulation and Emulation.

• Reflections on Users’ Experiences with SVA

  Article - Mar 02, 2022 by Ben Cohen

  In my years of contributions to the Verification Academy SystemVerilog Forum, I have seen trends in real users’ difficulties in the application of assertions, the expression of the requirements, the angle of attacks for verification, the misunderstandings of how SVA works, and the confusion as to which SVA option to use.

• Improving Your SystemVerilog Language and UVM Methodology Skills

  Track - Oct 27, 2021 by Chris Spear

  If you are building complex testbenches with SystemVerilog and UVM, this series is for you. The series dives into many aspects of these two areas, to give you deeper insight about how to apply the language and methodology on your projects. Whether you are new to SystemVerilog and UVM, or have been writing code for many years, take a fresh look at the fundamentals and learn some new ideas and approaches.

• Introduction to UVM

  Session - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

  This session gives an overview of UVM, the motivation and benefits, and technical highlights.

• Introduction to UVM | Japanese

  Resource (Japanese Translation Slides) - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

• Introduction to UVM

  Resource (Slides) - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

• UVM "Hello World" | Japanese

  Resource (Slides Japanese Translation) - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

• UVM "Hello World"

  Session - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

  This session walks through a short, simple example to get you started with UVM.

• UVM "Hello World"

  Resource (Slides) - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick

• Connecting Env to DUT

  Resource (Slides) - May 28, 2021 by Tom Fitzpatrick