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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.

Coverage Courses

Assertion-Based Verification

Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) Course | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s assertion-based-verification (ABV) skills, infrastructure, and metrics.

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.

Portable Stimulus Basics

Portable Stimulus Basics Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Coverage Topic

This course will provide an introduction to the upcoming Portable Stimulus standard, starting with a discussion of the need for and goals of the standard, taking the viewer through the actual standard itself to provide an understanding of how to create your own specification of Portable Stimulus and how a tool can generate UVM, C or other implementations of the test for your required platform.

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Why Portable Stimulus?

Why Portable Stimulus Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Verification Academy Live Seminar

What’s all the fuss about? This introductory session sets the stage for the day by exploring the requirements to reuse stimulus and test intent throughout an SoC project which involves running different tests in different languages on different platforms at different stages of the process. It explains the value of an abstract declarative specification of verification intent and outlines the motivation and projected flow of the new Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS).

Portable Stimulus Standard Uncovered

Portable Stimulus Standard Uncovered Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Verification Academy Live Seminar

This in-depth session explains the concepts in PSS and shows how you can create an abstract model of your verification intent that can be used to generate multiple scenarios implemented in UVM, C or other languages to execute on the necessary platform(s) in your verification flow.

PSS Panel Discussion

PSS Panel Discussion Session | Subject Matter Expert - Harry Foster | Verification Academy Live Seminar

Harry Foster and Tom Fitzpatrick along with guest panelists; Hugh Walsh from Marvell, Nguyen Le from Microsoft and Biju Odayammatath from Western Digital discuss the latest Portable Stimulus Standard and how you could leverage it to increase your verification productivity.

PSS Usage Examples

PSS Usage Examples Session | Subject Matter Expert - Matthew Ballance | Verification Academy Live Seminar

PSS provides features that enable test intent to be specified in a far more abstract a reusable manner than existing techniques.

In this session, two examples are used to illustrate:

- How abstract PSS test intent is easily targeted to a specific design without modifying the original test-intent description
- How PSS test intent can be enhanced to cover new requirements without modifying the original test-intent description

Wrapping Up - Where do we go from here?

Wrapping Up - Where do we go from here? Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Verification Academy Live Seminar

This brief session gives an update on the projected PSS release schedule and shows how our Questa® inFact tool supports the Portable Stimulus Standard.

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.
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

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.

Questa Coverage Closure

Questa Coverage Closure Demo Session | Subject Matter Expert - Thom Ellis

In this demo, you will learn a few of the key features of the Questa Verification Platform as applies to the process of coverage closure.

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Coverage Forum

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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.

Formal Coverage Demo

Formal Coverage Course | Formal Coverage Demo Session

This session will demo formal coverage using Questa PropCheck.

Effectively Modeling and Analyzing Coverage

Beyond UVM: Effectively Modeling and Analyzing Coverage Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | UVM Recipe of the Month Seminar

This Verification Cookbook seminar will outline a comprehensive coverage strategy that will help you implement effective functional coverage for your project.

Using Automation to Close the Loop Between Functional Requirements and their Verification

DAC 2018 | Using Automation to Close the Loop Between Functional Requirements and their Verification

This session will defined a “Verified by” relationship between the Verification Requirement and the Coverage Intent work item and the Verification Requirement and Test work item.

Questa Coverage Closure

Questa Coverage Closure Demo Session | Subject Matter Expert - Thom Ellis

In this demo, you will learn a few of the key features of the Questa Verification Platform as applies to the process of coverage closure.

Formal Coverage Introduction & Overview

Course Introduction & Overview Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

In this session, you will be introduced to the Formal Coverage course.

Mentor VIP, More than just a BFM

Mentor VIP, More than just a BFM Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Verification Seminar

Today’s advanced UVM environments require more than a standard BFM to support environment reuse, randomized stimulus, generation of traffic scenarios, coverage collection, etc.

New School Coverage Closure

New School Coverage Closure Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Verification Academy Live Seminar

In this session, you will learn a new school formal verification method which automates the job of focusing coverage closure efforts.

Inconclusive Debug Demo

Inconclusive Debug Demo

This session will demo how to debug an inconclusive property using Questa PropCheck.

Intelligent Testbench Automation and Coverage Closure

Intelligent Testbench Automation and Coverage Closure Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Advanced Verification Technologies in the Real World Seminar

This session will show how to apply intelligent automation of testing while retaining your investment in standard UVM and OVM verification environments.

Formal Coverage for Property Debug

Formal Coverage for Property Debug Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

This session will review the definition of a vacuous or uncoverable property and the main reasons why these property bugs exist

Formal Coverage for Inconclusive Debug

Formal Coverage for Inconclusive Debug Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

In this session we’ll review what inconclusive properties are and why they happen. We’ll then look at some easy tool based methods to help resolve inconclusives.

Coverage & Plan-Driven Verification for FPGAs

Coverage & Plan-Driven Verification for FPGAs

This session explores how to ensure that debug and verification is done in the most effective place by using block benches, chip benches, formal tools, and lab test appropriately.

Coverage Data Exchange is No Robbery... Or Is It?

DVCon US 2015 Poster Paper - Coverage Data Exchange is No Robbery... Or Is It?

This paper introduces a method of exchanging data between two-UCIS compliant coverage database systems without the need for inefficient formats like ASCII or XML.

Data Mining for SoC Level Performance

DAC 2018 | Data Mining for SoC Level Performance

This session describes how to use data mining techniques to analysis SoC level performance metrics to find problems that escape even the best simulation and emulation processes - including SoC level bandwidth, latency, cache coherency, opcode execution performance, and more.

Wrapping Up - Where do we go from here?

Wrapping Up - Where do we go from here? Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Verification Academy Live Seminar

This brief session gives an update on the projected PSS release schedule and shows how our Questa® inFact tool supports the Portable Stimulus Standard.

Why Portable Stimulus?

Why Portable Stimulus? Session | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Fitzpatrick | Portable Stimulus Basics Course

This session will discuss the motivation and goals for Portable Stimulus, explore the idea of scenario-level stimulus and examine the requirements for a viable Portable Stimulus solution.

Creating a Thorough Verification Environment in Less Than Two Days

Creating a Thorough Verification Environment in Less Than Two Days | Silicon Valley Design & Verification IP Forum | Jason Polychronopoulos

In this session you will learn how to become more productive by utilizing testbench automation, testbench generation, the UVM Framework and the VIP Configurator.

USB 3.1 Verification Challenges

Conquering the New IP Economy | Silicon Valley Design & Verification IP Forum | Dinesh Tyagi

In this session, you will learn how to improve USB 3.1 IP quality with functional verification using SystemVerilog.

Conquering the New IP Economy

Conquering the New IP Economy | Silicon Valley Design & Verification IP Forum | Harry Foster

In this session, Harry Foster will present current industry trends and in both design and verification, and then introduce emerging solutions required to close the verification productivity gap.

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