EDN

Using Tcl to create a virtual component in Verilog

It has long been a goal to put realistic prototypes or models into system developer's hands as soon as possible. This has been accomplished with FPGAs, C language models and sometimes co-simulation ...
EDN

An overview of SystemVerilog 3.1

SystemVerilog is an extensive set of enhancements to the IEEE 1364 Verilog-2001 standard. These enhancements provide powerful new capabilities for modeling hardware at the RTL and system level, along ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

System Verilog based Generic Verification Methodology for IPs/ASICs/SOCs: A Case Study

This document discusses Random constraint-based verification and explains how random verification can complement the directed verification for the generic designs. In our case this is demonstrated by ...
Design-Reuse

Mixed Signal Design & Verification Methodology for Complex SoCs

This paper describes the design & verification methodology used on a recent large mixed signal System on a Chip (SoCs) which contained radio frequency (RF), analog, mixed-signal and digital blocks on ...