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Verification Horizons Articles

SystemVerilog:

  • SVA Alternative for Complex Assertions
  • An Evaluation of the Advantages of Moving from a VHDL to a UVM Testbench
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for "Sufficient Elemental Analysis" in DO-254 Flows
  • Reuse MATLAB® Functions and Simulink® Models in UVM Environments with Automatic SystemVerilog DPI Component Generation
  • A Generic UVM Scoreboard
  • Merging SystemVerilog Covergroups by Example
  • SVA in a UVM Class-based Environment
  • Bringing Verification and Validation under One Umbrella
  • Don't Forget the Little Things That Can Make Verification Easier
  • Assertions Instead of FSMs/logic for Scoreboarding and Verification
  • Top Five Reasons Why Every DV Engineer Will Love the Latest SystemVerilog 2012 Features
  • Relieving the Parameterized Coverage Headache
  • Better Living Through Better Class-Based SystemVerilog Debug

Debug:

  • Parallel Debug: A Path to a Better Big Data Diaspora
  • Certus™ Silicon Debug: Don't Prototype Without It
  • On-Chip Debug – Reducing Overall ASIC Development Schedule Risk
  • Increase Verification Productivity with Questa® UVM Debug
  • Visualizer Debug Environment: Class-based Testbench Debugging using a New School Debugger – Debug This!

Verification IP:

  • Coverage Driven Verification of NVMe Using Questa® VIP (QVIP)
  • SATA Specification 3.3 Gaps Filled by SATA QVIP
  • Configuring Memory Read Completions Sent by PCIe® QVIP
  • Step-by-step Tutorial for Connecting Questa® VIP into the Processor Verification Flow
  • MIPI® CSI2 TX IP Verification Using Questa® VIPs
  • Converting Legacy USB IP to a Low Power USB IP
  • USB Type-C Verification: Challenges and Solution
  • Simplifying HDCP Verification Using Questa® VIP
  • Verifying Display Standards: A Comprehensive UVM-based Verification IP Solution
  • MIPI C-PHY™: Man of the Hour
  • Total Recall: What to Look for in a Memory Model Library
  • Nine Effective Features of NVMe® Questa® Verification IP to Help You Verify PCIe® Based SSD Storage
  • DO-254 Compliant UVM VIP Development
  • Memories Are Made Like This
  • QVIP Provides Thoroughness in Verification
  • Resolving the Limitations of a Traditional VIP for PHY Verification
  • Integrate Ethernet QVIP in a Few Hours: an A-to-Z Guide
  • Fast Track to Productivity Using Questa® Verification IP
  • Cache Coherent Interface Verification IP
  • Controlling On-the-Fly-Resets in a UVM-Based AXI Testbench
  • MIPI LLI Verification using Questa Verification IP
  • Caching in on Analysis
  • DDR SDRAM Bus Monitoring using Mentor Verification IP
  • Maximum Productivity with Verification IP
  • Verifying High Speed Peripheral IPs
  • NoC Generic Scoreboard VIP

UVM:

  • Complex Addressable Registers in Mission Critical Applications
  • UVM-based Verification of a RISC-V Processor Core Using a Golden Predictor Model and a Configuration Layer
  • UVM Tips and Tricks
  • INs and OUTs of CAN Verification—A Comprehensive UVM-based Solution
  • Solve UVM Debug Problems with the UVM Vault
  • Extending UVM Verification Models for the Analysis of Fault Injection Simulations
  • No RTL Yet? No Problem. UVM Testing a SystemVerilog Fabric Model
  • An Evaluation of the Advantages of Moving from a VHDL to a UVM Testbench
  • A Generic UVM Scoreboard
  • Small, Maintainable Tests
  • Please! Can Someone Make UVM Easier to Use?
  • UVM Testbench Structure and Coverage Improvement in a Mixed Signal Verification Environment
  • Dealing With UVM and OVM Sequences
  • Making it Easy to Deploy the UVM
  • Flexible UVM Components: Configuring Bus Functional Models
  • Monitors, Monitors Everywhere – Who Is Monitoring the Monitors?
  • OVM to UVM Migration, or "There and Back Again: A Consultant's Tale"
  • Three Steps to Unified SoC Design and Verification
  • On the Fly Reset
  • Relieving the Parameterized Coverage Headache

Verification Management:

  • Verification Planning with Questa® Verification Management
  • Increased Efficiency with Questa® VRM and Jenkins Continuous Integration
  • Increasing Verification Productivity Through Functional Coverage Management Automation
  • QVM: Enabling Organized, Predictable, and Faster Verification Closure
  • ST-Ericsson Speeds Time to Functional Verification Closure with Questa Verification Platform
  • Mentor Has Accellera's Latest Standard Covered

FPGA:

  • Reuse MATLAB® Functions and Simulink® Models in UVM Environments with Automatic SystemVerilog DPI Component Generation
  • Best Practices for FPGA and ASIC Development
  • Four Best Practices for Prototyping MATLAB and Simulink Algorithms on FPGAs

Low Power

  • Part 2: Power Aware Static Verification – From Power Intent to Microarchitectural Checks of Low-Power Designs
  • Part I: Power Aware Static Verification - From Power Intent to Microarchitectural Checks of Low-Power Designs
  • PA GLS: The Power Aware Gate-level Simulation
  • Understanding the UPF Power Domain and Domain Boundary
  • Artifacts of Custom Checkers in Questa® Power Aware Dynamic Simulation
  • Power Aware Libraries: Standardization and Requirements for Questa® Power Aware
  • Successive Refinement: A Methodology for Incremental Specification of Power Intent
  • PowerAware RTL Verification of USB 3.0 IPs
  • Taming Power Aware Bugs with Questa®
  • The Evolution of UPF: What's Next?
  • Evolution of UPF: Getting Better All the Time

 

  

Portable Stimulus:

  • Creating SoC Integration Tests with Portable Stimulus and UVM Register Models
  • Make Your Constraints More Dynamic with Portable Stimulus
  • Getting Generic with Test Intent: Separating Test Intent from Design Details with Portable Stimulus
  • Smoothing the Path to Software-Driven Verification with Portable Stimulus
  • Portable Stimulus Modeling in a High-Level Synthesis User's Verification Flow
  • Automating Tests with Portable Stimulus from IP to SoC Level
  • Bridging UVM to the Portable Stimulus Standard with Questa® inFact
  • Improving Performance and Verification of a System Through an Intelligent Testbench
  • Saving Time and Improving Quality with a Specification to Realization Flow
  • A New Stimulus Model for CPU Instruction Sets
  • Intelligent Testbench Automation with UVM and Questa®
  • Portable VHDL Testbench Automation with Intelligent Testbench Automation
  • Software-Driven Testing of AXI Bus in a Dual Core ARM® System
  • Power Up Hardware/Software Verification Productivity
  • Is Intelligent Testbench Automation For You?
  • Automated Generation of Functional Coverage Metrics for Input Stimulus
  • Targeting Internal-State Scenarios in an Uncertain World

Safety Critical / ISO 26262

  • EDA Support for Functional Safety — How Static and Dynamic Failure Analysis Can Improve Productivity in the Assessment of Functional Safety
  • Will Safety Critical Design Practices Improve First Silicon Success?
  • A Practical Methodology for Meeting ISO 26262 Random Faults Safety Goals in Automotive Semiconductor Products

Emulation:

  • Three Main Components to Look for in Your Emulation Platform
  • Emulation – A Job Management Strategy to Maximize Use
  • 24 x 7 Productivity: Veloce® Enterprise Server App Does the Job
  • Accelerating Networking Products to Market
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution—Part III
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution – Part II
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution
  • Emulation Based Approach to ISO 26262 Compliant Processors Design
  • Optimizing Emulator Utilization
  • Simulation + Emulation = Verification Success
  • Bringing Verification and Validation under One Umbrella
  • Virtualization Delivers Total Verification of SoC Hardware, Software, and Interfaces

CDC & Formal Verification:

  • It’s Not My Fault! How to Run a Better Fault Campaign Using Formal
  • Comprehensive CDC Verification with Advanced Hierarchical Data Models
  • RTL Glitch Verification
  • Reset Verification in SoC Designs
  • Debugging Inconclusive Assertions and a Case Study
  • Formal Verification: Not Just for Control Paths
  • RTL CDC Is No Longer Enough — How Gate-Level CDC Is Now Essential to First Pass Success
  • How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Driving You into a Ditch
  • Minimizing Constraints to Debug Vacuous Proofs
  • Evolving the Use of Formal Model Checking in SoC Design Verification
  • Functional Coverage Development Tips: Do's and Don'ts
  • Formal and Assertion-Based Verification of MBIST MCPs
  • Starting Formal Right from Formal Test Planning
  • Life Isn't Fair, So Use Formal
  • Confidence in the Face of the Unknown: X-state Verification
  • Using Formal Analysis to "Block and Tackle"
  • The Formal Verification of Design Constraints
  • The Top Five Formal Verification Applications

DO-254

  • Physical Verification of FPGAs in Accordance with an Aerospace DO254 Methodology Flow
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for "Sufficient Elemental Analysis" in DO-254 Flows
  • Complex Signal Processing Verification under DO-254 Constraints
  • Verifying Airborne Electronics Hardware: Automating the Capture of Assertion Verification Results for DO-254
  • DO-254 Testing of High Speed FPGA Interfaces

Verification Techniques:

  • A Hierarchical and Configurable Strategy to Verify RISC-V based SoCs
  • Automation and Reuse in RISC-V Verification Flow
  • Complementing Functional Verification Through the Use of Available Timing Information
  • How to Get the Maximum Out of Your Assertion and Coverage Based Verification Methodology
  • First Time Unit Testing Experience Report with SVUnit
  • The Verification Academy Patterns Library
  • Reusable Verification Framework
  • Does Design Size Influence First Silicon Success?
  • Unit Testing Your Way to a Reliable Testbench
  • Accelerating RTL Simulation Techniques
  • Hey You, Design Engineer!
  • Use of Iterative Weight-Age Constraint to Implement Dynamic Verification Components
  • Using Mentor Questa® for Pre-silicon Validation of IEEE 1149.1-2013 based Silicon Instruments
  • Interviewing a Verification Engineer
  • Non-invasive Software Verification Using Vista Virtual Platforms
  • The Need for Speed: Understanding Design Factors that Make Multi-core Parallel Simulations Efficient
  • System Level Code Coverage using Vista Architect and SystemC
  • VHDL-2008: Why It Matters

AMS:

  • Stories of an AMS Verification Dude: Model Shmodel
  • Stories of an AMS Verification Dude: Putting Stuff Together
  • AMS Verification for High Reliability and Safety Critical Applications
  • Improving Analog/Mixed-Signal Verification Productivity

Success Stories

Clock-Domain Crossing:

  • Northwest Logic Automates CDC and RDC Verification Using Questa CDC and Questa Reset Check

Formal Verification:

  • How Microsemi Uses Questa Formal Connectivity Check to Improve Quality and Productivity
  • Cypress Adopts Questa Formal Apps to Create Pristine IP

Verification Patterns

Environment Patterns:

  • BFM-Proxy Pair Pattern
  • Component Configuration Pattern
  • Dual Domain Hierarchy Pattern
  • Environment Layering Pattern
  • Façade Pattern
  • Parameterized UVM Tests Pattern
  • Resource Sharing Pattern
  • SW-HW Pipe Pattern
  • Utility Pattern

Order Property Patterns:

  • Precedence Chain Property Pattern
  • Precedence Property Pattern
  • Response Chain Property Pattern
  • Response Property Pattern
  

Stimulus Patterns:

  • Layering Sequence Pattern
  • Strategy Pattern

Analysis Patterns:

  • BFM Notification Pattern
  • Walking Pattern

Occurrence Property Patterns:

  • Absence Property Pattern
  • Bounded Existence Property Pattern
  • Existence Property Pattern
  • Forbidden Sequence Property Pattern
  • Universality Property Pattern

Technical Papers

UVM:

  • Slaying the UVM Reuse Dragon
  • Beyond UVM Registers - Better, Faster, Smarter
  • Sequence, Sequence on the Wall – Who's the Fairest of Them All?
  • Monitors, Monitors Everywhere – Who Is Monitoring the Monitors
  • Seven Separate Sequence Styles Speed Stimulus Scenarios
  • Boosting Simulation Performance of UVM Registers in High Performance Systems
  • Transaction-Level Friending: An Open-Source, Standards-Based Library for Connecting TLM Models in SystemC and SystemVerilog
  • Weathering the Verification Storm: Methodology Enhancements used on a Next Generation Weather Satellite C&DH Program

SystemVerilog:

  • DPI Redux. Functionality. Speed. Optimization.
  • No RTL Yet? No Problem - UVM Testing a SystemVerilog Fabric Model
  • Introspection Into SystemVerilog Without Turning It Inside Out
  • Jump-Start Portable Stimulus Test Creation with SystemVerilog Reuse
  • Easy Steps Towards Virtual Prototyping using the SystemVerilog DPI

Emulation:

  • From Simulation to Emulation – A Fully Reusable UVM Framework
  • Parameters, UVM, Coverage & Emulation – Take Two and Call Me in the Morning
  • UVM and Emulation: How to Get Your Ultimate Testbench Acceleration Speed-up
  • Off to the Races with Your Accelerated SystemVerilog Testbench

Verification IP:

  • Five Common Pitfalls To Avoid While Verifying PCIe Based NVMe Controllers
  • Total Recall - What to Look for in a Memory Model Library
  • Verification IP Stimulus APIs - Are They Really Easy to Use?
  • Extending a Traditional VIP to Solve PHY Verification Challenges
  • Verifying Display Standards–A Comprehensive UVM-based Verification IP Solution
  • Using Test-IP Based Verification Techniques in a UVM Environment

Clock-Domain Crossing (CDC):

  • Systematic Speedup Techniques for Functional CDC Verification Closure
  • Accelerating CDC Verification Closure on Gate-Level Designs

Debug:

  • Full-Featured SOC Debug Cross-Triggering

Low Power:

  • UPF Information Model: The Future of Low-Power Verification Today
  • Low Power Coverage: The Missing Piece in Dynamic Simulation
  • Random Directed Low-Power Coverage Methodology: A Smart Approach to Power Aware Verification Closure
  • Free Yourself from the Tyranny of Power State Tables with Incrementally Refinable UPF
  • The Fundamental Power States for UPF Modeling and Power Aware Verification
  • Power Aware CDC Verification of Dynamic Frequency And Voltage Scaling (DVFS) Artifacts
  • Stepping into UPF 2.1 World: Easy Solution to Complex Power Aware Verification

Portable Stimulus:

  • Making Legacy Portable with the Portable Stimulus Specification
  • Jump-Start Portable Stimulus Test Creation with SystemVerilog Reuse
  • Boost Verification Results by Bridging the Hardware/Software Testbench Gap
  • Tackling Random Blind Spots with Strategy-Driven Stimulus Generation

Coverage:

  • UCIS Applications: Improving Verification Productivity, Simulation Throughput, and Coverage Closure Process

Formal Verification:

  • Efficient and Exhaustive Floating Point Verification Using Sequential Equivalence Checking
  • Register Verification: Do We Have Reliable Specification?
  • Is Your Power Aware Design Really X-Aware?

Simulation:

  • The Need For Speed: Understanding Design Factors That Make Multi-Core Parallel Simulations Efficient
  • Traffic Profiling and Performance Instrumentation For On-Chip Interconnects

Metrics:

  • Supercharge Your Verification Using Rapid Expression Coverage as the Basis of a MC/DC-Compliant Coverage Methodology
  • So You Think You Have Good Stimulus: System-Level Distributed Metrics Analysis and Results

Verification Management:

  • Increased Regression Efficiency with Jenkins Continuous Integration Before You Finish Your Morning Coffee
  • Bringing Regression Systems into the 21st Century
  • Are You Really Confident That You Are Getting the Very Best From Your Verification Resources?

Analog/Mixed-Signal:

  • Interpreting UPF For A Mixed-Signal Design Under Test
  • Equivalence Validation of Analog Behavioral Models

OVM:

  • Parameters and OVM - Can't They Just Get Along?
  • One Compile to Rule Them All: An Elegant Solution for OVM/UVM Testbench Topologies

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