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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 DO-254
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      • Power Aware Verification
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      • Assertion-Based Verification
      • Metrics in SoC Verification

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      • Clock-Domain Crossing Verification
      • An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit
      • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
      • SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration
      • Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0
      • Verification Planning and Management
      • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

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      • Formal Assertion-Based Verification
      • Formal Coverage
      • Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions
      • Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology
      • Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification
      • Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

    • Analog/Mixed Signal

      • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
      • Improve AMS Verification Performance
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    The Verification Community is eager to answer your UVM, SystemVerilog and Coverage related questions. We encourage you to take an active role in the Forums by answering and commenting to any questions that you are able to.

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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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  • All Events
    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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Acceleration

Acceleration

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.

Acceleration Courses

Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0

Acceleration of SystemC and TLM-2.0 Testbenches with Co-Emulation Course | Subject Matter Expert - John Stickley | Acceleration Topic

This course advocates that functional verification through modern SystemC testbenches paired with co-emulation enables further verification productivity improvements.

SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration

SystemVerilog Testbenches Acceleration | Subject Matter Expert - Hans van der Schoot | Acceleration Topic

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.

Acceleration Resources

  • Articles
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  • Success Stories
  • Product Information

Featured Acceleration Verification Horizons Articles

  • 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

Featured Acceleration White Papers

  • From Simulation to Emulation – A Fully Reusable UVM Framework
  • UVM and Emulation: How to Get Your Ultimate Testbench Acceleration Speed-up
  • 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
  • Optimizing Emulator Utilization
  • Power - Usage Shift Leads to Methodology Shift
  • Exploring New Uses for the Veloce DFT App, Fault Coverage and Power Analysis
  • Localized, System-Level Protocol Checks and Coverage Closure Using Veloce
  • Veloce System-Level Power Analysis and Verification
  • Virtual Devices for Protocol-Specific Host and Peripheral Interfaces

Featured Acceleration On-Demand Technical Sessions

  • Creating UVM Testbenches for Simulation & Emulation Platform Portability
  • UVM and Emulation: Easing the Path to Advanced Verification and Analysis
  • Full SoC Emulation from Device Drivers to Peripheral Interfaces
  • Methodology for Hardware-Assisted Acceleration of OVM and UVM Testbenches
  • Off-line Debug of Multi-Core SoCs with Veloce Emulation
  • Making Hardware/Software Co-Verification Easier for ARM Cortex™-A Series Processor-based Designs

Featured Acceleration Success Stories

  • ARM® Uses Veloce2 To Verify State-of-the-Art Chips And Software
  • Marvell Overcomes Standard Interface And SoC Challenges With Veloce2
  • Cavium’s Success With Veloce, TBX And EPGM Virtual Tester
  • Veloce Speeds Debug of Ostendo Mobile 3D Projector on Chip

Scalable Verification Platforms with Capacities from 16M to 2B gates

The Veloce® Emulation Platform dramatically reduces risk in the verification of today’s complex SoCs and is a core technology in the Mentor Enterprise Verification Platform™ (EVP).

The Veloce emulation platform combines a unique hardware architecture, innovative operating system, specialized applications, and versatile peripheral solutions to deliver a comprehensive and flexible high-speed, high-capacity verification environment. Veloce accelerates simulation and provides uncompromised visibility and debug.

Learn more | Datasheet

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