Latest Issue of Verification Horizons Available!

Just in time for Christmas and other year-end holidays, I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of Verification Horizons is now available on-line. As usual, we have a great lineup of articles that I’m sure you’ll find informative:

• Integrate Ethernet QVIP in a Few Hours: an A-to-Z Guide – Shows how to instantiate a Questa VIP (QVIP) component quickly and easily into your UVM environment, including how to arrange your environment to configure the QVIP and take advantage of built-in protocol-specific analysis, coverage and debug features of the component.
• Fast Track to Productivity Using Questa VIP -Takes you through a new set of productivity features that we’ve named“EZ-VIP” that provides predefined sequences,configuration objects and wrapper modules to function as a “Quick Starter Kit” to help you get up and running quickly to verify standard design IP for popular protocols like PCIe and AXI4.
• Cache-Coherent Interface Verification IP – Extends the EZ-VIP discussion to focus on the use
  generic read/write APIs for ARM® AMBA® cache-coherent protocol verification. By providing a coherency API as well as a cache controller in the VIP, the task of writing meaningful stimulus sequences becomes much simpler.
• How Design Engineers Can Get Verification Engineers to Stop Complaining, and Other Advice – Somewhat irreverent and refreshingly candid advice for design engineers to help them avoid some of themore common pitfalls that cause tension between design and verification teams.
• Please! Can Someone Make UVM Easier to Use? – Best Poster Award-winner at DVCon India.
  A series of “before” and “after”code examples to show you how to use just the right set of features in UVM to make your code clear, concise and easy to debug.
• Controlling On-The-Fly Reset in a UVM-Based AXI Testbench Environment -How to handle
  resets and re-generate DUT traffic in UVM without using phase jumping.
• Increase Verification Productivity with Questa UVM Debug – Shows you how to take advantage of the UVM-specific debug features built into Questa to maximize your visibility into your UVM testbench.

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Whichever holiday(s) you celebrate at this special time of year, I hope you experience the peace, joy and hope that my family and I will share this Christmas.