Verification IP
Avery Verification IP (VIP) plays a crucial role in ensuring the success of complex semiconductor designs by offering a wide range of benefits and a compelling value proposition. Avery Verification IP provides pre-verified and reusable components, tools, and methodologies that enable efficient and thorough verification of electronic designs.
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On-Demand
Ethernet 1.6T, Infiniband, UALink, and UEC Verification for Next-Gen Connectivity
This session introduces Avery Verification IP for Ethernet 1.6T, Infiniband, UALink, and UEC, providing essential tools to verify complex designs for next-generation connectivity.
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Avery Verification IP Sessions
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Verifying the Next Generation High Bandwidth Memory Controllers for AI and HPC Applications
In this session, you will learn how Siemens’s scalable and customizable Avery HBM Verification IP helps companies like Rambus verify their industry-leading HBM4 Controller IP through rigorous testing to ensure reliability and performance. -
The Future of Multi-Die System Verification with UCIe
In this session, you will be introduced to the UCIe protocol with a focus on the latest evolutions of the specification, followed by a deep dive into the key features of Siemens Avery UCIe Verification IP that enable efficient verification of multi-die systems. These include dynamic block-level and System-in-Package (SiP) level testbench creation, intelligent traffic generation, error injection, advanced debug features, and comprehensive performance monitoring. -
Accelerated Confidence in Interface Designs mixing Software Layers, Hardware Protocols, Physical Connections
In this session, you will learn that today high performance compute fabrics are spread over multiple die, multiple packages, multiple cards and racks in the data center. They are linked together by layers of CPU-to-CPU, cache-to-cache, and network node-to-node infrastructure. Those connections are based on standardized protocols, always evolving and improving, and increasingly having both a hardware interaction of multiple layers, plus one or more software layers. -
How We Use PCIe Verification IP Across Multiple Projects
In this session we will discuss how Marvell delivers successful products and drives the market by with a structured design and verification methodology that reflects this philosophy. Specifically, we will dive deep into one of the most complex protocols: PCIe IP and the related testbench architecture; and how we adopted Siemens’ PCIe Avery Verification IP. -
Reduce Gate-level Simulation Bring-up Time with Semi-formal X Verification
This session will describe a reliable formal-based method to manage Xs in GLS. It centers on the use of Siemens Avery SimXACT solution alongside your preferred simulator. -
Comprehensive CXL 3.0 Verification for High-Bandwidth and Low-Latency Connectivity
In this session, you will learn considerations for exhaustive verification of the CXL interconnect and how the Siemens Avery CXL Validation Suite enables hardware and software development teams to start system integration and validation extremely early. -
Comprehensive PCIe Verification Solution for Bleeding Edge and Mission Critical SoC & IP Designs
In this session, you will learn design considerations for PCIe 5.0 and 6.0 design IP and how you can stay ahead in the market in verifying the most advanced and critical features of PCIe 6.0 and 5.0 for your design IPs. -
Multi-Die System Verification with Siemens’s UCIe VIP
In this session, we will introduce you to Siemens EDA's Verification Portfolio and then deep dive into UCIe Verification IP, discussing its key features such as dynamic block-level and SoC level testbench creation, traffic generation, error injection, debug features, and performance monitoring. Siemens Avery UCIe Verification IP is a leading solution in the market, runs on all major simulators and is a native SystemVerilog/UVM class-based Verification IP. -
Delivering First Silicon Success for Your Next SoC or 3DIC
In this session, you will learn about the protocol and memory verification solutions needed for your next silicon verification project whether in Datacenter, Storage, 3DIC, Networking, Automotive or Mil/Aero applications. -
Protocol and Memory Interface Verification in the Shrinking World of 3DIC
In this session, we take a look at how to scale your verification capability to match those designs, divide and conquer, and use the right abstractions to equip projects with high quality and faster time-to-market, and to equip design/verification engineers with scalable tools and solutions for verification. -
Verification of HPC Protocols and Memories
In this technical session we focus on the advances in PCI Express generation 6 protocol, and on the Compute Express Link (CXL) protocol. -
Creating a Fast and Productive USB4 Verification Environment
This session walks through the step-by-step workflow to integrate Questa Verification IP (QVIP) – USB4 into a testbench. The workflow demonstrates a jump start guide on developing a complete working testbench using QVIP, thereby reducing the testbench development efforts, and also the efforts needed for integrating QVIP into an existing testbench. -
A Guide to QVIP Workflow and Debug for PCIe®
In this session, you will learn the step-by-step workflow to integrate Questa Verification IP (QVIP) - PCIe® into a testbench including key strides which dramatically reduces the integration efforts from weeks down to few hours allowing Verification Engineers to be more productive during their verification cycle. -
VIP Solutions for Protocol and Memory Verification
In this session, we'll provide the key attributes of the Verification IP and Memory Model products, and a high level summary of how they can be used to bring quality and time-to-market value to your project. -
Ethernet Questa VIP - Boost Productivity & Faster Sign-Offs
In this session, we will demonstrate how Ethernet QVIP's comprehensive portfolio, unencrypted utilities and seamless integration is enabling users to boost productivity and quickly start meaningful verification resulting in faster sign-offs. -
Comprehensive Memory Modeling - DDR Questa Verification IP
In this session, you will learn how IP, SoC and FPGA customers successfully perform memory verification amidst growing protocol complexity. -
UVM Framework + Questa Verification IP A Winning Combination
In this session, you will learn how Microsoft was able to take advantage of our automation capabilities to close on verification goals faster, with more debuggability, and an overall increase in productivity by using Questa VIP with the UVM Framework. -
Productive Verification with VIP, a UVM Framework and Configuration GUI
In this session, you will learn how to leverage Verification IP and the UVM Framework to create a running testbench without writing any SystemVerilog code. -
One Stop Verification IP Memory Library
In this session, you will learn how to rapidly generate memory models and quickly integrate them into your testbench using Siemen EDA’s memory configurator software. -
Questa Verification IP AMBA
In this session, you will learn about Arm AMBA bus interface protocols as well as learn about the comprehensive functionality Questa Verification IP provides for verification of both IP and SoCs that include an AMBA interface, such as AHB, AXI or ACE. -
Questa Verification IP PCIe®
In this session you will receive a brief overview of PCI Express® and then learn about the comprehensive functionality Questa Verification IP provides for verification of both IP and SoCs that include a PCIe interface. -
Questa Verification IP Configurator
In this session you learn how Questa Verification IP configurator can be used not only to instantiate and configure Questa VIP components, but also to generate a complete testbench that can be used stand-alone, or integrated into a larger UVM or UVM Framework (UVMF) based environment.
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Verification Protocols & Support
Avery Verification IP supports a large library of industry-standard protocol and memory interfaces and devices. It includes standard SystemVerilog UVM components using a consistent, common architecture that allows rapid deployment of multiple protocols or memory models within a verification team.
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Verification IP Forum Discussion
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VIP Block Container Primary (Overview)
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Verification IP Enhances Productivity
Avery Verification IP Enhances Productivity
Avery Verification IP (VIP) offers a comprehensive solution to address the challenges faced by semiconductor design and verification teams. It provides pre-built, reusable verification components that represent various protocols, interfaces, and standards used in modern electronic systems. Avery Verification IP includes models, testbenches, assertions, and coverage models specific to each protocol, enabling faster and more effective verification of complex designs. By leveraging Avery Verification IP, design and verification teams can significantly reduce the time and effort required to develop custom verification environments, thus accelerating the overall verification process.
One of the key value propositions of using Avery Verification IP is its ability to enhance productivity. Avery Verification IP eliminates the need for design and verification teams to develop verification components from scratch for each design project. Instead, they can leverage pre-verified and reusable Avery Verification IP components, which saves considerable time and effort. This allows engineers to focus on higher-value tasks such as critical corner-case scenarios and system-level verification, resulting in increased productivity and improved time-to-market.
Moreover, Avery Verification IP offers a higher level of confidence in the design correctness. Avery Verification IP vendors invest significant resources in developing and rigorously testing their verification components, ensuring their reliability and accuracy. These components undergo extensive verification against protocol specifications, stress testing, and compatibility checks, thus minimizing the risk of undetected bugs and functional issues. By utilizing Avery Verification IP, design teams can leverage the expertise and experience of the Avery Verification IP vendor, ultimately leading to higher-quality designs and reducing the chances of costly re-spins.
Another benefit of using Avery Verification IP is its ability to enable comprehensive verification. Avery Verification IP includes a wide range of features such as error injection, protocol checking, and coverage analysis, which facilitate thorough and exhaustive verification. With Avery Verification IP, engineers can easily validate the compliance of their designs with specific protocols and standards, ensuring interoperability and compatibility with other components. Avery Verification IP also provides advanced features like functional coverage and transaction-level modeling, enabling a deeper analysis of system-level behavior and verification closure.
Reusability and Interoperability
Avery Verification IP is designed to be highly reusable across different projects and teams. Once an Avery Verification IP is developed and validated, it can be reused in multiple projects, saving time and effort. Moreover, Avery Verification IPs from different vendors are often interoperable, allowing engineers to mix and match components from different sources. This interoperability enables collaboration between different teams and facilitates the exchange of verification components, further increasing productivity.
Faster Time-to-Market
Verification is a critical aspect of the design process that can significantly impact time-to-market. By using Avery Verification IP, engineers can accelerate the verification process, identify and resolve issues earlier, and reduce the overall time required for verification. Avery Verification IPs provide a head start in developing verification environments, allowing engineers to focus on the unique aspects of their designs and quickly iterate through the verification process. This shortened verification cycle translates into faster time-to-market, giving companies a competitive edge.
Risk Mitigation
Avery Verification IP helps mitigate risks associated with complex designs. By relying on pre-verified Avery Verification IPs, engineers can detect and fix design issues early in the development cycle. This reduces the risk of costly re-spins and improves overall design quality. Avery Verification IPs also provide comprehensive error detection and coverage analysis capabilities, allowing engineers to identify potential corner cases and ensure robustness in their designs. By using Avery Verification IPs, companies can mitigate risks associated with verification and improve the overall reliability of their products.
Cost Savings
Developing and maintaining in-house verification environments for complex protocols can be expensive. Avery Verification IP offers a cost-effective solution by providing pre-verified and reusable models. Instead of investing resources in developing and maintaining protocol-specific verification environments, companies can leverage Avery Verification IPs to save time, effort, and costs. Additionally, the reusability and interoperability of Avery Verification IPs further contribute to cost savings by maximizing the utilization of existing verification assets across different projects.
Comprehensive Protocol Support
Avery Verification IP offers comprehensive protocol support for widely used industry standards such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, HDMI, AMBA, and many more. These protocols are constantly evolving, and developing verification environments from scratch for each new protocol version can be time-consuming and error-prone. Avery Verification IPs keep pace with the latest protocol specifications, ensuring accurate and up-to-date verification. This allows engineers to focus on the unique aspects of their design, rather than spending time on protocol-specific details.
Accurate and Reliable Verification
Avery Verification IP is developed by experts who have an in-depth understanding of the protocols they represent. These experts work closely with the standardization bodies and contribute to the development and refinement of protocol specifications. Avery Verification IPs undergo rigorous testing and verification, ensuring accuracy and reliability. By using Avery Verification IPs, engineers can have confidence in the correctness of their verification environment and focus on identifying design issues rather than worrying about potential protocol bugs.
Improved Verification Productivity
Avery Verification IP significantly enhances the productivity of verification engineers by providing pre-verified and reusable models for standard protocols and interfaces. Instead of starting from scratch, engineers can leverage these models to accelerate the verification process. Avery Verification IPs encapsulate the knowledge and expertise of protocol specifications, reducing the effort required to understand complex protocols and accelerating the development of verification environments.
Avery Verification IP Conclusion
Avery Verification IP fosters collaboration and compatibility among different design and verification teams. As Avery Verification IP components are standardized and widely adopted in the industry, they serve as a common language between various teams working on different parts of a complex design. This ensures seamless integration and communication, leading to improved overall project efficiency. Avery Verification IP also enables the reuse of verification environments across different projects and teams, fostering a scalable and modular approach to verification methodology.
Cost savings is another significant advantage offered by Avery Verification IP. Developing custom verification components requires substantial engineering resources, including skilled personnel, time, and infrastructure. By utilizing Avery Verification IP, design teams can avoid these costs, as the pre-built components are already available and extensively tested. Additionally, Avery Verification IP reduces the risk of missed bugs and design issues, which can result in expensive re-spins and delays. By investing in high-quality Avery Verification IP, companies can achieve significant cost savings throughout the entire design and verification process.
In conclusion, the value proposition and benefits of using Avery Verification IP are extensive. Avery Verification IP enhances productivity, improves design correctness, enables comprehensive verification, fosters collaboration, and offers cost savings. With Avery Verification IP, design and verification teams can leverage pre-verified and reusable components, saving time and effort while ensuring high-quality designs. As the complexity of electronic systems continues to grow, Avery Verification IP plays a critical role in accelerating the verification process, reducing risk, and ultimately enabling successful semiconductor designs.
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