Portable Stimulus Specification Released for Public Review

Portable Stimulus Specification Released for Public Review

I am happy to announce that Accellera has just released an Early Adopter version of the new Portable Stimulus Specification…

Portable Stimulus: Standard vs. Tool vs. Language

Portable Stimulus: Standard vs. Tool vs. Language

Although we had a very successful Portable Stimulus tutorial at DVCon US, there were still a couple of points of…

Portable Stimulus the Hot Topic at DVCon U.S. ’17

Portable Stimulus the Hot Topic at DVCon U.S. ’17

Just getting around to gathering my thoughts about the great week we had at DVCon U.S. As Program Chair for the…

Will UVM 1800.2 Leave You Behind?

Will UVM 1800.2 Leave You Behind?

We recently reached yet another important milestone in the life of the Universal Verification Methodology. The IEEE 1800.2 UVM Standard…

Portable Stimulus Takes an Important Step Forward

Portable Stimulus Takes an Important Step Forward

As a leading proponent of Accellera’s work in the Portable Stimulus Working Group (WG) for a couple of years now,…

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

As I mentioned in my last UVM post, UVM allows engineers to create modular, reusable, randomized self-checking testbenches. In that…

Portable Stimulus Taking Center Stage at DAC

Portable Stimulus Taking Center Stage at DAC

Living on the cutting edge, as I do, I’ve been focusing most of my attention recently on the problem of…

UVM: The Value of Flexibility

UVM: The Value of Flexibility

Having been deeply involved with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) from its inception, and before that, with OVM from its secret-meetings-in-a-hidden-hotel-room…

DVCon US: UVM Is BIG

DVCon US: UVM Is BIG

As I’m sure I’ve mentioned before, DVCon (in the US – I haven’t made it to any of the new,…