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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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      • 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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Coverage

Management thinker Peter Drucker is often quoted as saying that “you can’t manage what you can’t measure”. Coverage provides an excellent measure of verification effectiveness, enabling teams to define success and set measurable goals. This topic outlines how to define coverage metrics sufficiently, achieve them efficiently, measure them accurately, and report them promptly.

Featured Session

Formal Coverage vs. Simulation Coverage

Formal Coverage vs. Simulation Coverage Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

This session will explore the various aspects of formal coverage. We’ll start by reviewing the major components of simulation coverage metrics including code coverage, assertions coverage and functional coverage.

Coverage Courses

Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities

Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ray Salemi | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

This course introduces techniques for addressing complexity by evolving your organization’s FPGA verification process capabilities.

Formal Coverage

Formal Coverage Course | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal-Based Techniques Topic

Formal coverage is a hot topic these days. Simulation has a number of metrics for helping determine when verification is done. These include code coverage, assertions coverage, transaction coverage, and functional coverage to name a few.

Metrics in SoC Verification

Metrics in SoC Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Andreas Meyer | Planning, Measurement & Analysis Topic

This course identifies a range of metrics across multiple aspects of today’s SoC functional verification process.

Coverage Resources

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Coverage Cookbook

What is Coverage?From Spec to TestplanCreating a Coverage ModelAPB Bus Coverage ExampleUart Block Coverage ExampleDatapath Coverage Example(future Block Coverage Examples)SoC-level Coverage Example)Coding for AnalysisCode Coverage MetricsFunctional Coverage MetricsCoverage Cookbook

The Coverage Cookbook (Japanese) 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.

Be sure to check out the latest additions to the Coverage Cookbook as well as the new downloadable examples for module-level and bus-protocol coverage.

Featured Coverage Verification Horizons Articles

  • 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
  • Use of Iterative Weight-Age Constraint to Implement Dynamic Verification Components
  • The Need for Speed: Understanding Design Factors that Make Multi-core Parallel Simulations Efficient

Featured Coverage White Papers

  • Unraveling the Complexities of Functional Coverage: An Advanced Guide to Simplify Use Models
  • Coverage Data Exchange Is No Robbery…Or Is It?
  • UCIS Applications: Improving Verification Productivity, Simulation Throughput, and Coverage Closure Process

Featured Coverage On-Demand Technical Sessions

  • Data Mining for SoC Level Performance
  • Using Automation to Close the Loop Between Functional Requirements and their Verification
  • Effectively Modeling and Analyzing Coverage
  • New School Coverage Closure
  • Questa® Coverage Closure
  • Accelerating Coverage Closure with a Plan

Featured Coverage Seminars

  • New School Verification Technologies
  • Design & Verification in the SoC Era

ModelSim® / Questa® Core Advanced Topics

This learning path enables you to extend your knowledge of ModleSim/QuestaSim functionality and to efficiently analyze and debug HDL code.

  • ModelSim/Questa Tcl/TK Overview
  • ModelSim/Questa Code Coverage
  • ModelSim/Questa Language Support and Gate Level Simulations
  • ModelSim/Questa Finite State Machine Viewer
  • ModelSim/Questa Selected Debugging Topics

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