Acceleration are techniques that are used to address performance shortcomings of traditional simulation. For example, the design model (i.e., DUT) can be mapped into a hardware accelerator and run much faster during verification, while the testbench continues to run in simulation on a workstation. In this section of the Verification Academy, we focus on building verification acceleration skills.
Coverage is a simulation metric we use to measure verification progress and completeness.
Verification languages are the foundation of the very dynamic electronics industry. Industry continually demands improvements in the process of providing differentiated products into their markets. These verification language courses provide in-depth knowledge of key design and verification languages so that you can identify and deploy them in your upcoming projects.
This topic area focuses on formal-based techniques, ranging from formal property checking to clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification. Assertion-based verification (as it relates to formal property checking) is also covered in this topic area.
The definition of what FPGA really means has changed dramatically over the last two decades. Whether blazing the trail or being on the trailing edge of Moore’s Law, this is an exciting time to be an FPGA Designer. New opportunities bring new challenges for the FPGA market. As devices grow and become more complex resembling complete systems, the task of verifying such a system becomes daunting. In this section you will find timely, unbiased information from subject-matter experts that will help you navigate through this ever-changing landscape.
This topic area focuses on the early stages of a verification project. Topics include considerations for analyzing and evolving your verification capabilities, verification planning, and the introduction of metrics into a flow to measure success.
This topic area focuses on simulation-based techniques, ranging from stimulus generation, coverage modeling, and correctness checking. Building a contemporary testbench using UVM is also covered in this topic area.
Welcome to the most complete UVM/OVM Online resource collection.
Here you’ll find everything you need to get up to speed on UVM, OVM and latest additions; UVM Express and UVM Connect. Whether it’s downloading the kit(s), discussion forums or online or in-person training. The UVM/OVM Academy Courses provide a great overview of the introductory and advanced methodology concepts, including videos that walk you through some useful code examples.
The Advanced OVM course's goal is to improve your understanding of OVM so you can move beyond basic block-level testbenches.
Advanced UVM builds upon the concepts covered in the Basic UVM course to take your UVM understanding to the next level.
This course will introduce the various techniques available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.
This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s assertion-based-verification (ABV) skills, infrastructure, and metrics.
Basic OVM is primarily aimed at existing VHDL and Verilog engineers or managers who recognize they have a functional verification problem.
Basic UVM should raise a user's level of UVM knowledge to the point where users have sufficient confidence in their own technical understanding that it becomes less of a barrier to adoption.
This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification skills, infrastructure, and metrics.
This course introduces techniques for addressing complexity by evolving your organization’s FPGA verification process capabilities.
This course provides a common framework for all advanced functional verification courses contained within the Verification Academy.
This course provides a complete introduction to Intelligent Testbench Automation (iTBA), showing how you can achieve your coverage goals >10X faster.
This course will introduce the various modeling practices available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.
This course will introduce some methodologies available in AMS design environments that could help quantify the quality of the AMS verification process.
This course identifies a range of metrics across multiple aspects of today’s SoC functional verification process.
This course introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) for specification of active power management architectures and covers the use of UPF in simulation-based power aware verification.
This course will give you the confidence required to start the process of investigating and creating a single testbench environment for both simulation and hardware-assisted acceleration.
This course advocates that functional verification through modern SystemC testbenches paired with co-emulation enables further verification productivity improvements.
UVM Connect will demonstrate how to reuse your SystemC architectural models and/or reuse SystemVerilog UVM agents to verify models in SystemC.
UVM Express enables full UVM migration or co-existence at any time. UVM Express is organized in a way that allows progressive adoption and a value proposition with each step.
This course wil define terms, logically divide up the verification effort, and lay the foundation for actual verification planning and management on a real project.
VHDL-2008 matters because it facilitates advanced verification, adds reusable data structures, simplifies RTL coding and adds fixed and floating point math packages. VHDL-2008 is the largest change to VHDL since 1993.
The UVM Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to the Universal Verification Methodology.
The OVM Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to the Open Verification Methodology.
The SystemVerilog Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to SystemVerilog and other Languages.
The Coverage Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to Coverage.
The Coverage Cookbook describes the different types of coverage that are available to keep track of the progress of the verification process, how to create a functional coverage model from a specification, and provides examples of how to implement functional coverage for different types of designs.
The UVM library is both a collection of classes and a methodology for how to use those base classes. UVM brings clarity to the SystemVerilog language by providing a structure for how to use the features in SystemVerilog. However, in many cases UVM provides multiple mechanisms to accomplish the same work.
The OVM is an open source SystemVerilog class library that was the outcome of a collaboration between Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems. There are three main reasons why you should consider using the OVM and these are productivity, commercial considerations and enablement.
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.
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 events provide examples for adoption of new technologies and how to evolve your verification process.
Mentor Graphics has been the technical leader in UVM from its inception, and we created the Verification Methodology Cookbook as a resource for verification engineers to be constantly up to date on the latest uses and applications of UVM. We created this online seminar series to share specific pieces of the Verification Cookbook with you in a little more detail.
The Verification Horizons publication expands upon verification topics to provide concepts, values, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what these advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them.
This session introduces the challenges in Mixed-Signal verification performance. A high-level description of the Accuracy vs. Performance/Capacity tradeoffs is also provided along with the various available technologies that attempt to address the different areas of tradeoffs.
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