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INTRODUCTION
If you work in functional verification, you’ve likely become quite familiar with random constraints from functional verification languages such as SystemVerilog. Using a constraint solver to automate stimulus generation is key to quickly generating lots of stimulus that hits cases that weren’t envisioned by the test writer. When using constrained-random generation, constraints are the mechanism by which we customize what is legal and interesting in the stimulus space.
Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) introduces some new constraint capabilities, in addition to supporting the capabilities that we’ve become familiar with in SystemVerilog. This article provides a guided tour of one of these new constraint features,
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