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    The Verification Academy offers users multiple entry points to find the information they need. One of these entry points is through Topic collections. These topics are industry standards that all design and verification engineers should recognize. While we continue to add new topics, users are encourage to further refine collection information to meet their specific interests.

    • Languages & Standards

      • Portable Test and Stimulus
      • Functional Safety
      • Design & Verification Languages

    • Methodologies

      • UVM - Universal Verification Methodology
      • UVM Framework
      • UVM Connect
      • FPGA Verification
      • Coverage

    • Techniques & Tools

      • Verification IP
      • Simulation-Based Techniques
      • Planning, Measurement, and Analysis
      • Formal-Based Techniques
      • Debug
      • Clock-Domain Crossing
      • Acceleration
  • All Courses
    The Verification Academy is organized into a collection of free online courses, focusing on various key aspects of advanced functional verification. Each course consists of multiple sessions—allowing the participant to pick and choose specific topics of interest, as well as revisit any specific topics for future reference. After completing a specific course, the participant should be armed with enough knowledge to then understand the necessary steps required for maturing their own organization’s skills and infrastructure on the specific topic of interest. 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.

    • Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)

      • Advanced UVM
      • Basic UVM
      • Introduction to UVM
      • UVM Connect
      • UVM Debug
      • UVMF - One Bite at a Time

    • Featured Courses

      • Introduction to ISO 26262
      • Introduction to DO-254
      • Clock-Domain Crossing Verification
      • Portable Stimulus Basics
      • Power Aware CDC Verification
      • Power Aware Verification
      • SystemVerilog OOP for UVM Verification

    • Additional Courses

      • Assertion-Based Verification
      • An Introduction to Unit Testing with SVUnit
      • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities
      • Metrics in SoC Verification
      • SystemVerilog Testbench Acceleration
      • Testbench Co-Emulation: SystemC & TLM-2.0
      • Verification Planning and Management
      • VHDL-2008 Why It Matters

    • Formal-Based Techniques

      • Formal Assertion-Based Verification
      • Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions
      • Formal Coverage
      • Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology
      • Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification
      • Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

    • Analog/Mixed Signal

      • AMS Design Configuration Schemes
      • Improve AMS Verification Performance
      • Improve AMS Verification Quality
  • All Forum Topics
    The Verification Community is eager to answer your UVM, SystemVerilog and Coverage related questions. We encourage you to take an active role in the Forums by answering and commenting to any questions that you are able to.

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      • OVM Forum
  • Patterns Library
    The Verification Academy Patterns Library contains a collection of solutions to many of today's verification problems. The patterns contained in the library span across the entire domain of verification (i.e., from specification to methodology to implementation—and across multiple verification engines such as formal, simulation, and emulation).

    • Implementation Patterns

      • Environment Patterns
      • Stimulus Patterns
      • Analysis Patterns
      • All Implementation Patterns

    • Specification Patterns

      • Occurrence Property Patterns
      • Order Property Patterns
      • All Specification Patterns

    • Pattern Resources

      • Start Here - Patterns Library Overview
      • Whitepaper - Taking Reuse to the Next Level
      • Verification Horizons - The Verification Academy Patterns Library
      • Contribute a Pattern to the Library
  • All Cookbooks
    Find all the methodology you need in this comprehensive and vast collection. The UVM and Coverage Cookbooks contain dozens of informative, executable articles covering all aspects of UVM and Coverage.

    • UVM Cookbook

      • UVM Basics
      • Testbench Architecture
      • DUT-Testbench Connections
      • Configuring a Test Environment
      • Analysis Components & Techniques
      • End Of Test Mechanisms
      • Sequences
      • The UVM Messaging System
      • Other Stimulus Techniques
      • Register Abstraction Layer
      • Testbench Acceleration through Co-Emulation
      • Debug of SV and UVM
      • UVM Connect - SV-SystemC interoperability
      • UVM Versions and Compatibility
      • UVM Cookbook

    • Coding Guidelines & Deployment

      • Code Examples
      • UVM Verification Component
      • Package/Organization
      • Questa/Compiling UVM
      • SystemVerilog Guidelines
      • SystemVerilog Performance Guidelines
      • UVM Guidelines
      • UVM Performance Guidelines

    • Coverage Cookbook

      • Introduction
      • What is Coverage?
      • Kinds of Coverage
      • Specification to Testplan
      • Testplan to Functional Coverage
      • Bus Protocol Coverage
      • Block Level Coverage
      • Datapath Coverage
      • SoC Coverage Example
      • Requirements Writing Guidelines
      • Coverage Cookbook
  • All Events
    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 seminars from Verification Academy trainers and users provide examples for adoption of new technologies and how to evolve your verification process.

    • Upcoming & Featured Events

      • Low Power Verification - 4/29
      • Fault Campaign for Mixed-Signal - 5/4
      • User2User - 5/26
      • Webinar Calendar

    • On-Demand Webinars

      • CDC+RDC Analysis
      • Basic Abstraction Techniques
      • Safety Analysis Techniques
      • QVIP Workflow and Debug for PCIe
      • Writing a Proxy-driven Testbench
      • Achieving High Defect Coverage
      • Visualizer Features
      • All On-Demand Webinars

    • Recording Archive

      • Siemens EDA 2021 Functional Verification Webinar Series
      • Improving Your SystemVerilog & UVM Skills
      • Should I Kill My Formal Run?
      • Visualizer Debug Environment
      • Industry Data & Surveys
      • All Recordings

    • Conferences

      • DVCon 2021
      • DVCon 2020
      • DAC 2019
      • All Conferences

    • Mentor Learning Center

      • SystemVerilog Fundamentals
      • SystemVerilog UVM
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  • About Verification Academy
    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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    • Verification Horizons Publication

      • Verification Horizons - March 2021
      • Verification Horizons - November 2020
      • Verification Horizons - July 2020
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Harry Foster Chief Scientist Verification

Harry Foster - Chief Scientist Verification

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Chief Scientist Verification

Harry Foster is Chief Scientist Verification for the Design Verification Technology Division of Mentor, A Siemens Business; and is the Co-Founder and Executive Editor for the Verification Academy. In addition, Harry is serving as the 2021 Design Automation Conference General Chair. He holds multiple patents in verification and has co-authored six books on verification. Harry was the 2006 recipient of the Accellera Technical Excellence Award for his contributions to developing industry standards, and was the original creator of the Accellera Open Verification Library (OVL) standard.

Subject Matter Experts

Harry Foster
Tom Fitzpatrick
Chris Spear
Rich Edelman
Gordon Allan
Jonathan Craft
Ping Yeung
Dave Rich
Kurt Takara
Joe Hupcey
Neil Johnson
Darron May
Mark Eslinger
Adam Erickson
Mark Olen
Jason Polychronopoulos
Matthew Ballance
Moses Satyasekaran
Byran Ramirez
Athira Panicker
Jacob Wiltgen
Chris Giles
Shubhankar Deshmukh
Kamlesh Mulchandani
Bob Oden
Charles Battikha
Doug Smith
Tomasz Piekarz
Mark Peryer
Atul Sharma
Pradeep Salla
Sumit Vishwakarma
Steve Geisler
Hirak Roy
Kaushal Pathak
Progyna Khondkar
Joon Hong
Thomas Ellis
Stephen Bailey
Tom Kiley
Raghu Ardeishar
Dr. Jeremy Levitt
Dave Aerne
Avidan Efody
Geir Eide
Jin Hou
Ray Salemi
Walter Gude
Byron Brinson
Hans Van Der Schoot
Michael Horn
Russ Klein
John Stickley
Vijay Chobisa
Dominic Lucido
Sathish Balasubramanian
Vinayak Desai
Dr. Ashish Darbari
Cliff Cummings
Gordon Walker
Munish Goyal
Brian Craw
Ashish Amonkar
Andreas Meyer
Lee Harrison
Srikanth Rengarajan
Ram Narayan
Rick Koster
Larry Lapides
Marc Schmitz
Kartik Raju
Qazi Ahmed
Harmel Sangha
Sriram Hariharan
Shantanu Samant
Sanjay Gupta
Jim Lewis
John Aynsley
Anupam Bakshi
Dr. Mike Bartley
Vahid Naraghi
Vigyan Singhal
Jin Zhang
Mitchell Poplingher
Niraj Mathur
Dinesh Tyagi
Ellie Burns
Akshay Sarup
Peet James
Ivan Ristic
Peter Wang
Brian Mathewson
Adam Rose
Chuck Seeley
Erich Marschner
Ahmed Eisawy
Verification Academy

Authored Resources

Featured Sessions

  • Trends in Functional Verification
  • FPGA Verification Maturity: A Quantitative Analysis
  • First Pass Success Depends on Holistic Planning that Includes Formal
  • Editor Insight - Handling Inconclusive Assertions
  • Debugging Trends, Challenges, and Novel Solutions
  • Applying Big Data Analytics to Today’s Functional Verification Challenge
  • UVM Debug Editor Insight
  • Conquering the New IP Economy
  • Industry Trends in Today’s Functional Verification Landscape
  • Verification Patterns: An Optimized Reusable Solution
  • UVM Everywhere: Industry Drivers, Best Practices, and Solutions
  • Fireside Chat Verification Panel
  • Trends in Debugging: From Challenges to Solutions
  • Industry Standards and FPGA Verification Trends
  • Trends in Formal Verification: Not Just for Experts Anymore!
  • From Tightly Coupled (Loosely Bolted) to Verification Convergence!

Verification Patterns Libary

  • Absence Property Pattern
  • Bounded Existence Property Pattern
  • Existence Property Pattern
  • Forbidden Sequence Property Pattern
  • Universality Property Pattern
  • Precedence Chain Property Pattern
  • Precedence Property Pattern
  • Response Chain Property Pattern
  • Response Property Pattern

Courses

  • Evolving Verification Capabilities
  • Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology
  • Assertion-Based Verification
  • Clock-Domain Crossing Verification
  • Metrics in SoC Verification
  • Evolving FPGA Verification Capabilities

Verification Horizons

  • Quantifying FPGA Verification Effectiveness
  • FPGA Verification Challenges and Opportunities
  • The Verification Academy Patterns Library
  • Does Design Size Influence First Silicon Success?

Resources

  • Coverage Cookbook
  • Verification Horizons Blog
  • Verification Patterns – Taking Reuse to the Next Level

Industry Data and Surveys

  • 2018 Functional Verification Study
  • 2016 Functional Verification Study
  • 2014 Functional Verification Study - ASIC/IC Trends
  • 2014 Functional Verification Study - FPGA Trends
  • 2012 Functional Verification Study

Seminars

  • Assertion-Based Verification for FPGA and IC Design
  • Design & Verification in the SoC Era
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