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  Acceleration

  Acceleration are techniques that are used to address performance shortcomings of traditional simulation. For example, the design model (i.e., DUT) can be mapped into a hardware accelerator and run much faster during verification, while the testbench continues to run in simulation on a workstation. In this section of the Verification Academy, we focus on building verification acceleration skills.

  Courses

  • SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration
  • Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0

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  • Verification Horizons

  Coverage

  Coverage is a simulation metric we use to measure verification progress and completeness.

  Courses

  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
  • Intelligent Testbench Automation (iTBA)
  • Metrics in SoC Verification
  • UVM Express

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  • Coverage Cookbook
  • Verification Horizons
  • Coverage Forum

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  • Effectively Modeling & Analyzing Coverage
  • iTBA & Coverage Closure
  • Introducing UVM Express

  Design & Verification Languages

  Verification languages are the foundation of the very dynamic electronics industry. Industry continually demands improvements in the process of providing differentiated products into their markets. These verification language courses provide in-depth knowledge of key design and verification languages so that you can identify and deploy them in your upcoming projects.

  Courses

  • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters
  • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
  • Improve AMS Verification Performance
  • Improve AMS Verification Quality

  Related Resources

  • Verification Horizons

  Formal-Based Techniques

  This topic area focuses on formal-based techniques, ranging from formal property checking to clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification. Assertion-based verification (as it relates to formal property checking) is also covered in this topic area.

  Courses

  • Clock-Domain Crossing Verification

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  • Verification Horizons

  • Seminars

  • Advanced Verification Technologies
  • Design & Verification in SoC Era

  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.

  Courses

  • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters
  • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • UVM Express

  Related Resources

  • Verification Horizons

  • Seminars

  • ABV for FPGA & IC Design

  Planning, Measurement, and Analysis

  This topic area focuses on the early stages of a verification project. Topics include considerations for analyzing and evolving your verification capabilities, verification planning, and the introduction of metrics into a flow to measure success.

  Courses

  • Evolving Verification Capabilities
  • Metrics in SoC Verification
  • Verification Planning and Management

  Related Resources

  • Verification Horizons

  • Seminars

  • Advanced Verification Technologies
  • Design & Verification in SoC Era

  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.

  Courses

  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
  • Intelligent Testbench Automation
  • Power Aware Verification

  Related Resources

  • Verification Horizons

  • Seminars

  • ABV for FPGA & IC Design
  • Advanced Verification Technologies
  • Design & Verification in SoC Era

  UVM/OVM

  Welcome to the most complete UVM/OVM Online resource collection.

  Here you’ll find everything you need to get up to speed on UVM, OVM and latest additions; UVM Express and UVM Connect. Whether it’s downloading the kit(s), discussion forums or online or in-person training. The UVM/OVM Academy Courses provide a great overview of the introductory and advanced methodology concepts, including videos that walk you through some useful code examples.

  Courses

  • Advanced OVM
  • Advanced UVM
  • Basic OVM
  • Basic UVM
  • UVM Connect
  • UVM Express

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  • Intelligent Testbench Automation
  • Improve AMS Verification Performance
  • Improve AMS Verification Quality
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  • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

  Advanced OVM

  The Advanced OVM course's goal is to improve your understanding of OVM so you can move beyond basic block-level testbenches.

  Sessions

  • Understanding TLM
  • Understanding the Factory
  • Care & Feeding of Sequences
  • Layering Sequences
  • Writing & Managing Tests

  OVM Cookbook Articles

  • Connect Sequencer
  • Analysis Port
  • Factory
  • Using Factory Overrides
  • Sequences
  • Sequences Layering
  • Testbench Blocklevel
  • Testbench Integration Level

  • OVM Downloads

  • OVM 2.1.2 Kit
  • OVM Code Examples

  • OVM Documentation

  • OVM 2.1.2

  Advanced UVM

  Advanced UVM builds upon the concepts covered in the Basic UVM course to take your UVM understanding to the next level.

  Sessions

  • Architecting a UVM Testbench
  • Understanding the Factory & Configuration
  • How TLM Works
  • Modeling Transactions
  • The Proper Care and Feeding of Sequences
  • Layered Sequences
  • Writing and Managing Tests
  • Setting Up the Register Layer
  • Using the Register Layer
  • Register-Based Testing

  UVM Cookbook Articles

  • Testbench
  • Factory
  • Configuration
  • Connect Sequencer
  • Analysis
  • Sequence Items
  • Transaction Methods
  • Macro Cost Benefit
  • Sequences
  • Sequences Virtual
  • Sequences Layering
  • End of Test
  • Registers
  • Register Model
  • Registers Model Structure

  • UVM Downloads

  • UVM 1.1d Kit
  • UVM Code Examples

  • UVM Documentation

  • UVM 1.1d

  AMS Design Configuration Schemes

  This course will introduce the various techniques available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.

  Sessions

  • Overview to AMS Configuration
  • Analog/Mixed-Signal Domain
  • Design Methodologies
  • Design Topologies
  • Mixing Languages
  • AMS Design Configuration Schemes

  Related Courses

  • Improve AMS Verification Performance
  • Improve AMS Verification Quality

  Assertion-Based Verification

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

  Sessions

  • Introduction to Assertion-Based Verification
  • Maturing Your Organizations ABV Capabilities
  • Introduction to SystemVerilog Assertions
  • Introduction to Open Verification Library (OVL)
  • Assertion Patterns
  • Cookbook Examples
  • ABV and Formal Property Checking
  • Questa® Simulation Demo
  • Questa® Formal Verification Demo

  Related Courses

  • Evolving FPGA Verification
  • UVM Express
  • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

  Basic OVM

  Basic OVM is primarily aimed at existing VHDL and Verilog engineers or managers who recognize they have a functional verification problem.

  Sessions

  • Constrained Random Verification Primer
  • Introduction to OVM
  • OVM "Hello World"
  • Connecting Env to DUT
  • Connecting Components
  • Introducing Transactions
  • Sequences and Tests
  • Monitors & Subscribers

  OVM Cookbook Articles

  • Testbench
  • Testbench Build
  • Connections
  • Sequence Items
  • Transaction Methods
  • Sequences
  • End of Test
  • Analysis

  • OVM Downloads

  • OVM 2.1.2 Kit
  • OVM Code Examples

  • OVM Documentation

  • OVM 2.1.2

  Basic UVM

  Basic UVM should raise a user's level of UVM knowledge to the point where users have sufficient confidence in their own technical understanding that it becomes less of a barrier to adoption.

  Sessions

  • Introduction to UVM
  • UVM "Hello World"
  • Connecting Env to DUT
  • Connecting Components
  • Introducing Transactions
  • Sequences and Tests
  • Monitors and Subscribers
  • Reporting

  UVM Cookbook Articles

  • Testbench
  • Connections
  • Connect Sequencer
  • Sequence Items
  • Transaction Methods
  • End of Test
  • Sequences
  • Analysis
  • Reporting Verbosity

  • UVM Downloads

  • UVM 1.1d Kit
  • UVM Code Examples

  • UVM Documentation

  • UVM 1.1d

  Clock-Domain Crossing Verification

  This course introduces a set of steps for advancing an organization’s clock-domain crossing (CDC) verification skills, infrastructure, and metrics.

  Sessions

  • Overview & Welcome
  • Introduction to CDC
  • Understanding Metastability
  • Metastability Verification Flow
  • Modeling Metastability
  • Integrating CDC Into A Flow
  • Questa CDC Verification Demo

  Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities

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

  Sessions

  • Introduction from Harry Foster
  • Overview & Welcome
  • Code Coverage
  • Test Planning
  • Applied Assertions
  • Transactions
  • Self-Checking Testbenches
  • Automatic Stimulus
  • Functional Coverage

  Related Courses

  • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters
  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • UVM Express

  Evolving Verification Capabilities

  This course provides a common framework for all advanced functional verification courses contained within the Verification Academy.

  Sessions

  • Introduction to the Verification Academy

  Related Courses

  • Metrics in SoC Verification
  • Verification Planning & Management

  Intelligent Testbench Automation

  This course provides a complete introduction to Intelligent Testbench Automation (iTBA), showing how you can achieve your coverage goals >10X faster.

  Sessions

  • Intelligent Testbench Automation Primer
  • Introduction to iTBA
  • Integrating iTBA into a UVM/OVM Environment
  • Combining Rule Graphs & Constraints
  • Integrating iTBA into a SystemC Environment
  • Integrating iTBA into Directed Tests
  • Integrating iTBA into an ‘e’ Environment
  • Applications of Reactive Graphs
  • Applications of Configurable Graphs
  • Distributed Simulation for Functional Coverage

  Related Courses

  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification
  • UVM Express

  Improve AMS Verification Performance

  This course will introduce the various modeling practices available in AMS design environment to help understand how to efficiently utilize them.

  Sessions

  • Overview to Improve AMS Performance
  • AMS Engines
  • Modeling Abstraction
  • AMS Modeling Guidance
  • Improve AMS Verification Performance

  Related Courses

  • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
  • Improve AMS Verification Quality

  Improve AMS Verification Quality

  This course will introduce some methodologies available in AMS design environments that could help quantify the quality of the AMS verification process.

  Sessions

  • Overview to Improve AMS Quality
  • Analog Aspects in AMS
  • Extend Power-Aware Verification to AMS
  • Extend Structured Formal Verification to AMS
  • Improve AMS Verification Quality

  Related Courses

  • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
  • Improve AMS Verification Performance

  Metrics in SoC Verification

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

  Sessions

  • Introduction to Metrics
  • The Driving Forces for Change
  • What Can Metrics Tell Us?
  • What's Needed to Address the Problem?
  • What's Needed to Adopt Metrics?
  • What to Expect After Adopting the Metrics

  Related Courses

  • Evolving Verification Capabilities
  • Verification Planning & Management

  Power Aware Verification

  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.

  Sessions

  • Introduction to Power Aware Verification
  • Overview of UPF
  • Getting Started with UPF
  • A Simple UPF Example
  • UPF 2.0 Enhancements
  • Using Supply Sets
  • An Enhanced UPF Example

  Related Resources

  • The Evolution of UPF: What’s Next?
  • Evolution of UPF: Getting Better All the Time

  SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration

  This course will give you the confidence required to start the process of investigating and creating a single testbench environment for both simulation and hardware-assisted acceleration.

  Sessions

  • H/W-Assisted Testbench Acceleration
  • Testbench Acceleration Depicted
  • Modeling for Acceleration
  • Testbench Acceleration Flow

  Related Courses

  • Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0

  Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0

  This course advocates that functional verification through modern SystemC testbenches paired with co-emulation enables further verification productivity improvements.

  Sessions

  • Introduction to SystemC & TLM 2.0
  • SystemC & TLM-2.0 Testbench Modeling
  • The SCE-MI 2.0 Standard
  • The OSCI TLM-2.0 Standard
  • Modeling SystemC TLM-2.0 Drivers
  • SystemC & TLM-2.0 Monitors and Talkers

  Related Courses

  • SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration

  UVM Connect

  UVM Connect will demonstrate how to reuse your SystemC architectural models and/or reuse SystemVerilog UVM agents to verify models in SystemC.

  Sessions

  • Introduction
  • Connections
  • Converters
  • UVM Command API

  UVM Cookbook Articles

  • UVM Connect
  • Connections
  • Conversion
  • Command API

  UVM Express

  UVM Express enables full UVM migration or co-existence at any time. UVM Express is organized in a way that allows progressive adoption and a value proposition with each step.

  Sessions

  • Overview & Task Based BFMs
  • Functional Coverage
  • Constrained-Random Stimulus

  UVM Cookbook Articles

  • UVM Express
  • Design Under Test
  • Bus Functional Model
  • Writing BFM Tests
  • Functional Coverage
  • Constrained Random

  Verification Planning and Management

  This course wil define terms, logically divide up the verification effort, and lay the foundation for actual verification planning and management on a real project.

  Sessions

  • Why Plan?
  • Why It's Hard
  • Plan of Attack

  Related Courses

  • Evolving Verification Capabilities
  • Metrics in SoC Verification

  VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

  VHDL-2008 matters because it facilitates advanced verification, adds reusable data structures, simplifies RTL coding and adds fixed and floating point math packages. VHDL-2008 is the largest change to VHDL since 1993.

  Sessions

  • VHDL-2008 Overview
  • VHDL-2008 Testbench Enhancements
  • VHDL-2008 RTL Enhancements
  • VHDL-2008 Operator Enhancements
  • VHDL-2008 Package Type Enhancements
  • VHDL-2008 Fixed Point Package
  • VHDL-2008 Floating Point Package

  Related Courses

  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification
  • UVM Express
• Forums
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  • UVM Forum
  • OVM Forum
  • SystemVerilog Forum
  • Coverage Forum

  UVM Forum

  The UVM Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to the Universal Verification Methodology.

  UVM Questions

  • UVM - Active
  • UVM - Solutions
  • UVM - Answers
  • UVM - No Answers
  • Ask an UVM Question

  Additional Forums

  • AMS
  • Downloads
  • Announcements

  • Quick Links

  • UVM Forum Search
  • Forum Subscriptions

  OVM Forum

  The OVM Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to the Open Verification Methodology.

  OVM Questions

  • OVM - Active
  • OVM - Solutions
  • OVM - Answers
  • OVM - No Anwsers
  • Ask an OVM Question

  Additional Forums

  • AMS
  • Downloads
  • Announcements

  • Quick Links

  • OVM Forum Search
  • Forum Subscriptions

  SystemVerilog Forum

  The SystemVerilog Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to SystemVerilog and other Languages.

  SystemVerilog Questions

  • SystemVerilog - Active
  • SystemVerilog - Solutions
  • SystemVerilog - Answers
  • SystemVerilog - No Answers
  • Ask a SystemVerilog Question

  Additional Forums

  • AMS
  • Downloads
  • Announcements

  • Quick Links

  • SystemVerilog Forum Search
  • Forum Subscriptions

  Coverage Forum

  The Coverage Discussion Forum focuses on questions related to Coverage.

  Coverage Questions

  • Coverage - Active
  • Coverage - Solutions
  • Coverage - Answers
  • Coverage - No Answers
  • Ask a Coverage Question

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  • AMS
  • Downloads
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  • Coverage Forum Search
  • Forum Subscriptions
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  • Coverage Cookbook
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  Coverage Cookbook

  The Coverage Cookbook 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.

  Coverage Chapters

  • Introduction

  • Coverage Metrics and Process (Theory)

  • What is Coverage?
  • Kinds of Coverage
  • Specification to Testplan
  • Testplan to Functional Coverage

  • Coverage Examples (Practice)

  • Bus Protocol Coverage
  • Block Level Coverage
  • Datapath Coverage
  • SoC Coverage Example

  • Appendices

  • Requirements Writing Guidelines

  Coverage Resources

  • Coverage Cookbook - Complete PDF
  • Functional Coverage Examples
  • Coverage Forum
  • Effectively Modeling & Analyzing Coverage

  • Courses

  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
  • Intelligent Testbench Automation
  • Metrics in SoC Verification
  • UVM Express
  • Verification Planning & Management

  UVM Cookbook

  The UVM library is both a collection of classes and a methodology for how to use those base classes. UVM brings clarity to the SystemVerilog language by providing a structure for how to use the features in SystemVerilog. However, in many cases UVM provides multiple mechanisms to accomplish the same work.

  UVM Chapters

  • Testbench
  • Connections
  • Configuration
  • Analysis
  • Sequences
  • End of Test
  • Registers
  • Emulation
  • Debugging
  • Code Examples
  • UVM Express
  • UVM Connect

  UVM Resources

  • UVM Cookbook - Complete PDF
  • UVM Code Examples
  • UVM Forum
  • UVM Recipe of the Month
  • UVM 1.1d Kit

  • UVM Documentation

  • UVM 1.1d

  • Courses

  • Basic UVM
  • Advanced UVM

  OVM Cookbook

  The OVM is an open source SystemVerilog class library that was the outcome of a collaboration between Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems. There are three main reasons why you should consider using the OVM and these are productivity, commercial considerations and enablement.

  OVM Chapters

  • Testbench
  • Connections
  • Configuration
  • Analysis
  • Sequences
  • End of Test
  • Registers
  • Emulation
  • Code Examples

  OVM Resources

  • OVM Cookbook - Complete PDF
  • OVM to UVM Migration
  • OVM Code Examples
  • OVM Forum
  • OVM 2.1.2 Kit

  • OVM Documentation

  • OVM 2.1.2

  • Courses

  • Basic OVM
  • Advanced OVM
• More
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  About Us

  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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  Seminars

  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 events provide examples for adoption of new technologies and how to evolve your verification process.

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  Industry Seminars

  • ABV for FPGA and IC Design
  • Design & Verification in the SoC Era
  • Verification Technologies in the Real World

  Verification Seminars

  Mentor Graphics has been the technical leader in UVM from its inception, and we created the Verification Methodology Cookbook as a resource for verification engineers to be constantly up to date on the latest uses and applications of UVM. We created this online seminar series to share specific pieces of the Verification Cookbook with you in a little more detail.

  UVM Recipes

  • Abstract UVM Stimulus
  • Automate UVM Register Models
  • Advanced UVM Debug
  • C-Based Stimulus for UVM
  • Customization in UVM
  • Introducing UVM Express
  • More UVM Registers
  • Introduction to UVM Registers
  • Protocol Layering
  • Scoreboards & Results Predictors
  • UVM Connect
  • UVM Debug

  Coverage, OVM and VIP

  • Mentor VIP, More than just a BFM
  • Modeling & Analyzing Coverage
  • OVM to UVM Migration

  Verification Horizons

  The Verification Horizons publication expands upon verification topics to provide concepts, values, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what these advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them.

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