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by Rich Edelman, Verification Technologist, Mentor, A Siemens Business
Heard in the hall… "New School Debugger! Wow! I can't wait. But I'm skeptical. What makes it new? And does it even work? No one likes to debug a testbench. But it would be nice to have something to make life easier for testbench debug. Does it work in post-simulation mode? OK. I'll listen." The testbench isn't the product. The testbench is not going to make any money and the testbench isn't what the boss is yelling about as tape out approaches. He wants the RTL bugs gone and a functionally correct RTL.
Guess what's a good way to find bugs and assure functional correctness? Have a good testbench.
Testbenches are different than RTL. They have behavioral Verilog code. They
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