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INTRODUCTION
Creating sufficient tests to verify today’s complex designs is a key verification challenge, and this challenge is present from IP block-level verification all the way to SoC validation. The Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS) [1] promises to boost verification reuse by allowing a single description of test intent to be reused across IP block, subsystem, and SoC verification environments, and provides powerful language features to address verification needs across the verification levels and address the specific requirement of verification reuse. However, even as powerful object-oriented features in the Java and C++ languages didn’t automatically result in high-quality reusable code, the PSS standard’s language
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