Portable Stimulus 2.0 Ready for Public Review

As vice-chair of the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group, it is my pleasure to announce that the Portable Test and…

Part 3: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Verification Effort Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2020 Wilson Research…

Part 2: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Verification Effectiveness In my previous blog, I present FPGA design trends identified in the 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional…

Part 1: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Design Trends In my previous blog, I introduced the 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). The…

Understanding and Minimizing Study Bias (2020 Study)

This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs that present the highlights from the 2020 Wilson Research Group…

Prologue: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This is the first in a sequence of blogs that presents the findings from our new 2020 Wilson Research Group…

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  …

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…