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INTRODUCTION
Testbenches written in SystemVerilog and UVM face the problem of configurability and reusability between block- and system-level. Whereas reuse of UVCs from a block- to a system-level verification environment is relatively easy, the same cannot be said for the UVC's connection to the harness: The interfaces that these UVCs need changes from connections to primary inputs and outputs at block level to a set of hierarchical probes into the DUT at system level. This requires a re-write of all interface connections and hinders reuse.
This article demonstrates how to write interface connections only once and use them in both block- and system-level testbenches. The order is not important: System-level testbenches can be written
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