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Getting Organized with SystemVerilog Arrays

Getting Organized with SystemVerilog Arrays

SystemVerilog has many ways to store your data. Vectors, arrays, structures, classes, and probably several more ways that I don’t…

PCIe Gen5: A pathway to address Data Explosion and Emerging Technologies

PCIe Gen5: A pathway to address Data Explosion and Emerging Technologies

As the technology scales or shrinks, there are always some bottlenecks that need to be addressed sometimes it is the…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 4, How SLEC Brings Automated, Exhaustive Formal Analysis to Safety Mechanism Verification

[Preface / reminders: Part 1 of this series focused on synthesis validation with LEC and SLEC, Part 2 describes how…

Exciting Webinar on Portable Stimulus Now Posted

Exciting Webinar on Portable Stimulus Now Posted

[Updated 5/27/2020] The webinar went off without a hitch and is now available for viewing on-demand at mentor.com. I’m pleased…

Methodology by Example – 6 Approaches to Verification

Methodology by Example – 6 Approaches to Verification

This blog is an exciting next step – exciting for me at least! – that builds on what I proposed…

New Webinar Series: What’s New in Mentor Functional Verification

New Webinar Series: What’s New in Mentor Functional Verification

Just like time and the tides, the complexity of electronic systems, and the need to verify that they will function…

UVM Configuration DB Guidelines

UVM Configuration DB Guidelines

Introduction My previous blog posts were on static and parameterized classes to get you ready for the big game –…

The Ideal Verification Timeline

The Ideal Verification Timeline

Our discussion around building integrated verification methodologies started with where techniques apply to design by plotting options for verifying low,…

Asking better questions on the Verification Academy Forums with EDAPlayground

Asking better questions on the Verification Academy Forums with EDAPlayground

The forums on the Verification Academy have been around for about a decade (even longer if you count its origins…