Design-Reuse

SystemVerilog 3.1 adds assertions and testbench automation

The June 2003 release of SystemVerilog 3.1 integrates testbench automation capabilities and temporal assertions into an enhanced version of Verilog. It eliminates many of Verilog's past limitations, ...
EDN

Using SystemVerilog for functional verification

The need to improve functional verification productivity and quality continues to grow. The 2004/2002 IC/ASIC Functional Verification Study, by Collett International Research, shows that logic or ...
Electronic Design

Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog

Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...
Electronic Design

Testbench Automation Tool Provides Tight Links To Verilog Simulation

Faster runtime performance, real-time access to built-in Verilog simulation coverage metrics, and a unified graphical environment for waveform analysis are all ...
EDN

And the winner of the free Verilog book is…

Well, following my What am I holding in my hand? blog, in which I offered a free copy of the book FPGA Prototyping Using Verilog Examples to whomever penned the message that touched and/or amused me ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Shift-Left Low Power Verification With UPF Information Model

Low power testbenches today have no visibility of the UPF objects and their states during a low power simulation. This has been one of the factors limiting the users from writing re-usable low power ...