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FPGA Verification

FPGA Verification

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.

The modern FPGA designer faces many different challenges while working on his or her project. Fortunately, there are many solutions to choose from and more powerful, user-friendly tools available. Come back to this section often for new information and stay ahead of your competition.

FPGA Verification Courses

Introduction to the UVM

Introduction to the UVM Course | Subject Matter Expert - Ray Salemi | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

The Introduction to the UVM course consists of twelve sessions that will guide you from rudimentary SystemVerilog through a complete UVM testbench.

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.

VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

VHDL-2008 Why It Matters Course | Subject Matter Expert - Jim Lewis | Design and Verification Languages Topic

VHDL-2008 matters because it facilitates advanced verification, adds reusable data structures, simplifies RTL coding and adds fixed and floating point math packages.

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.

Questa® FPGA Resources

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Featured FPGA Verification Verification Horizons Articles

  • 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
  • Physical Verification of FPGAs in Accordance with an Aerospace DO-254 Methodology Flow
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for "Sufficient Elemental Analysis" in DO-254 Flows
  • DO-254 Testing of High Speed FPGA Interfaces

Featured FPGA Verification Blog Posts

  • The FPGA Verification Window Is Open
  • Just because FPGAs are programmable doesn’t mean verification is dead
  • Significantly Improve Your FPGA Design Reliability by Using Custom CDC Synchronizers

Featured FPGA Verification White Papers

  • Boosting Regression Throughput by Reusing Setup Phase Simulation
  • FPGA Verification With Assertions: Why Bother?
  • Keep Your FPGA Options Open With Vendor-Independent IP
  • Diagnosing CDC Errors in FPGAs
  • Understanding DO-254 and Solutions to Facilitate Compliance
  • Understanding and Running DO-254 Coding Checks in HDL Designer
  • Enabling Model-Based Design for DO-254 Compliance with MathWorks and Mentor Graphics Tools
  • When Spreadsheets Aren’t Enough
  • Designing Multi-FPGA Prototypes That Act Like ASIC
  • FPGA Synthesis: Looking Beyond the Obvious
  • The Pivot Point for Design Flow Improvements

Featured FPGA Verification On-Demand Technical Sessions

  • Coverage & Plan-Driven Verification for FPGAs
  • Staying Competitive with Advanced FPGA Verification
  • FPGA Prototyping: Maximize Your Enterprise Debug Productivity
  • The 2018 Wilson Research Group ASIC and FPGA Functional Verification Study
  • Industry Standards and FPGA Verification Trends
  • Injecting Automation into Verification - FPGA Market Trends
  • Injecting Automation into Verification – Code Coverage
  • Injecting Automation into Verification - Assertions
  • Injecting Automation into Verification – Improved Throughput
  • ModelSim Essentials
  • Get Your FPGA Design out of the Lab Faster
  • Is Your 'Safe' FPGA Design Safe Enough?
  • Moving Between FPGA and ASIC with High-Level Synthesis

Featured FPGA Verification News & Press

  • Improving FPGA Debugging with Assertions
  • Mentor’s Questa verification solution helps Leonardo accelerate aerospace FPGA development
  • Mentor Precision Synthesis announces support for the eFPGA fabric in Silicon Mobility’s OLEA automotive IC
  • Mentor Graphics Adds ReqTracer to Fast-Growing Mentor Safe ISO 26262 Qualification Program
  • Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs (Part 1)
  • Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs (Part 2)
  • Supporting CPUs Plus FPGAs (Part 3)

Featured FPGA Verification Success Stories

  • Hyperstone: ModelSim with SystemVerilog DPI Speeds Simulation and Debug of C Models
  • Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
  • Olivetti Eliminates Months of ASIC Design Effort

Running Questa CDC on FPGA Designs

This application note describes how to analyze clock-domain crossings in FPGA designs using Questa CDC.

The process includes:

  • Exporting FPGA project file
  • Using the correct FPGA library files
  • Compiling the FPGA libraries
  • Compiling the design files
  • Running CDC static analysis
  • Reviewing and debugging the static analysis results

This application note describes how to run CDC analysis in batch mode using a Makefile or shell scripts.

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Defeat timing problems and cut debug time for clock-domain crossings using Mentor’s Questa CDC app for Vivado

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ModelSim's easy to use, unified debug and simulation environment gives today's FPGA designers advanced capabilities in a productive work environment

Modelsim® HDL simulator provides FPGA customers with and easy cost-effective way to speed up FPGA development, lab bring up and test. Many FPGA designers go to the lab before adequately vetting their design. This means weeks or even months of inefficient debugging time in the lab. Testing in the lab has limited visibility of the signals in design. It can take 8 hours to do a place and route just instrument additional signals or make a small bug fix. With simulation the debug loop is much faster and there is complete visibility into the signals in the design. Simulation enables a much higher quality FPGA design before entering the lab allowing time spent during lab debug much more productive and focused.

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