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Extend transactions from uvm_sequence_item

Why are UVM transactions built with uvm_sequence_item?

What is a UVM transaction? A transaction in UVM is a class with properties for the signals, such as address…

I’m Excited About Formal Property Checking! My Journey From Skeptic to Believer

Yup. You read that right. I’m excited about formal property checking. To put it mildly, this is way out of…

SystemVerilog Race Condition Challenge Responses

SystemVerilog Race Condition Challenge Responses

As promised, here is my response to Siemens EDA’s SystemVerilog Race Condition Challenge. Race #1 Blocking and non-blocking assignments  …

The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The Correlation Between Safety Tool Chains and Nuclear Disarmament

The title may have you wondering how the heck I’m going to tie together two very disparate topics.  Well here…

Watching on-demand webinars

Great Upcoming Web Events on the Horizon

We’ve had some great online web seminars these past few weeks. Please consider viewing the on-demand recordings: SystemVerilog & UVM:…

Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal

DAC 2020 Paper Report: Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal Verification

At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), Formal verification was everywhere – in posters, papers, and panel discussions – where…

SystemVerilog

Time for Another Revision of the SystemVerilog IEEE 1800 Standard

Between Accellera and the IEEE, there have been seven revisions of the SystemVerilog Language Reference Manual (LRM) over the past…

SystemVerilog Race Condition Challenge

If there’s one thing I’ve learned since coming to Mentor early last year, it’s that the SystemVerilog language gives developers…

Accellera at Virtual DAC 2020

Functional Safety: Accellera’s Virtual Lunch Event Focus With DAC 2020 going virtual, the opportunities for social interactions have had to…