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Simulation-Based Techniques

This topic area focuses on simulation-based techniques, ranging from stimulus generation, coverage modeling, and correctness checking. Building a contemporary testbench using UVM is also covered in this topic area.

Simulation-Based Techniques Courses

UVM Debug

UVM Debug Course | Subject Matter Expert - Tom Kiley | Universal Verification Methodology Topic

In this course, we examine common UVM debug issues, and provide a systematic set of recommendations to effectively address them.

An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit

Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit Course | Subject Matter Expert - Neil Johnson, XtremeEDA | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

SVUnit is an open-source test framework for ASIC and FPGA developers writing Verilog/SystemVerilog code. SVUnit is the only SystemVerilog test framework suited for both design and verification engineers.

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.

Power Aware Verification

Power Aware Verification Course | Subject Matter Expert - Erich Marschner | Simulation-Based Techniques Topic

This course introduces the IEEE Std 1801 Unified Power Format (UPF) for specification of active power management architectures and covers the use of UPF in simulation-based power aware verification.

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.

Simulation-Based Techniques Resources

  • Portable Stimulus
  • Articles
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Portable Stimulus Seminar

  • Why Portable Stimulus?
  • Portable Stimulus Standard Uncovered
  • PSS Usage Examples
  • Wrapping Up - Where do we go from here?

Portable Stimulus Sessions

  • Why Portable Stimulus
  • What is Portable Stimulus
  • Walking Through a Portable Stimulus Example

Portable Stimulus Verification Horizons Articles:

  • 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

Portable Stimulus Technical Papers:

  • 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

Portable Stimulus Blog Posts:

  • Portable Stimulus Specification Released for Public Review
  • Reusing Existing Descriptions with New Languages
  • DAC 54 Spotlight on "Portable Stimulus"
  • Portable Stimulus: Standard vs. Tool vs. Language
  • How Any Verification Engineer Can Quickly Create a Complex Testbench
  • Portable Stimulus the Hot Topic at DVCon U.S. '17
  • Portable Stimulus Takes an Important Step Forward
  • Portable Stimulus Taking Center Stage at DAC
  • Portable Stimulus Applications at DVCon 2016
  • Modeling CPU Instruction Sets with a Portable Stimulus Specification
  • Mentor Announces Joint Portable Stimulus Contribution with Cadence, Breker

Portable Stimulus On-Demand Recordings:

  • Automating Reusable Retargetable Scenario-level Tests with Portable Stimulus
  • Automating Scenario-Level UVM Tests with Portable Stimulus
  • New School Stimulus Generation Techniques

Portable Stimulus News & Press:

  • Accellera Portable Stimulus Early Adopter Specification Now Available for Public Review
  • Mentor Verification Is First to Deliver Portable Stimulus Technology Across the Full Enterprise Verification Platform
  • Automating test from IP to SoC levels with portable stimulus
  • Early access view of portable-stimulus standard released
  • Portable Stimulus - Practice Guide
  • Verification Unification: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3

Portable Stimulus Technical Tutorials, Downloads & Working Group

  • Creating Portable Stimulus Models with the Upcoming Accellera Standard
  • Portable Stimulus Specification - Early Adopter Release
  • Portable Stimulus Specification Working Group

Improving Performance and Verification of a System Through an Intelligent Testbench

The need for intelligent verification is the outcome of a two decade long pre-silicon verification process. Intelligent testbench automation, which is a supplement of intelligent verification, is a step closer towards achieving more confidence in design with minimal engineering effort. Applications today demand diverse functionality, which results in complex to very complex designs. Pre-silicon verification for first-pass success using current verification approaches is just not enough.
Horizons Article

A New Stimulus Model for CPU Instruction Sets

In this article we present an alternative approach, using a portable, environment independent model of the stimulus. The CPU instruction set, and various contexts in which the instructions appear, are all modeled by a graph.
Horizons Article

Is Intelligent Testbench Automation For You?

There have been multiple technical papers demonstrating successful verification applications and panel sessions comparing the merits to both Constrained Random Testing (CRT) and Directed Testing (DT) methods.
Horizons Article

Automated Generation of Functional Coverage Metrics for Input Stimulus

Verification teams are always under pressure to meet their project schedules, while at the same time the consequences of not adequately verifying the design can be severe.
Horizons Article

Targeting Internal-State Scenarios in an Uncertain World

The challenges inherent in verifying today's complex designs are widely understood. Just identifying and exercising all the operating modes of one of today's complex designs can be challenging.
Horizons Article

Hiding the Guts

We verification test bench designers are happy sausage makers, merrily turning out complex and powerful verification environments. To us, object-oriented programming environments not only greatly enhance our productivity, but they make us feel smarter.
Horizons Article

A New Stimulus Model for CPU Instruction Sets

Verifying that a specific implementation of a processor is fully compliant with the specification is a difficult task. Due to the very large total stimuli space it is difficult, if not impossible, to ensure that every architectural and microarchitectural feature has been exercised.
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Advanced Testbench Configuration with Resources

Building robust, reusable testbenches means the testbench elements must be configurable. At its essence, configuring a testbench is a matter of populating a database with name/value pairs and providing a means for testbench objects to access that database.
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Intelligent Testbench Automation - Now a Reality, No Longer Just a Promise

Using a current benchmark as the basis for the content, this article describes a Questa/inFact solution in which a small engineering team was able to fully verify an SOC IP module design, in less time and with fewer resources, than with the best their current constrained random test solution.
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Closing the Loop in Testbench Automation

Existing testbench techniques offer various benefits. However, once a testbench is initiated, it runs open-loop, generating results and then reporting them to an engineer. In turn, the engineer analyzes the results, makes some modifications to the system, and runs it again - and then repeats the process.
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Breaking the Speed Limits on SoC Verification with the Questa® Flow

In this session, you will learn industry best practices in verification flows and how to implement the optimal flow to speed your SoC design verification cycle.
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Automating Reusable, Retargetable Scenario-Level Tests with Portable Stimulus

In this session, you will learn how graph-based portable stimulus raises the abstraction level of test specification and execution, and enables tests to be retargeted across environments and execution platforms.
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Automating Scenario-Level UVM Tests with Portable Stimulus

In this session, you will learn how to efficiently and predictably exercise the scenario space, ensuring high quality verification results.
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New School Stimulus Generation Techniques

This session will explore the three dominant stimulus generation techniques used today for functional verification to identify; the characteristics of stimulus generated by each technique, where each technique best applies on its own and how these new school techniques can be combined to achieve even greater verification value.
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Accelerating Coverage Closure with Intelligent Testbench Automation

This archived web seminar shows how the Questa inFact Intelligent Testbench Automation solution generates stimulus according to the user s functional coverage goals, eliminating redundant stimulus and efficiently targeting corner cases. The result is 10x to 100x faster functional coverage closure.
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Verifying Complex SoC Designs with Questa Codelink

This archived web seminar shows how Questa Codelink helps verification engineers reduce the time spent finding design errors and debugging them, at the SoC level, in both simulation and emulation environments.
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