Getting Started with Questa Memory Verification IP

By Chris Spear & Kamlesh Mulchandani  Introduction The best way to create a System on a Chip is with design…

Finding FUN – DPI-C Recording C Variables in a Wave Database

Pandemic? Cold freeze? No Power? Ugh. What a 12 months. And all that’s unfolded. I’m looking for some fun. I…

Getting Started with Questa Verification IP for Protocols

The best way to create a System on a Chip is with design IP: blocks that perform common functions such…

SystemVerilog

The Semantics of SystemVerilog Syntax

Trying to grasp any programming language from scratch can be a difficult task, especially when you start by reading the…

Part 10: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

IC/ASIC Language and Library Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2020…

Part 6: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2020 Wilson…

SystemVerilog

P1800-2023 Kick-Off Meeting

There will be an informational kick-off meeting of the P1800 Working group for the next revision of the standard on Thursday, December 17th

The UVM Config DB and Scope

Introduction With any large software project, you need to share information and control across widely separated blocks. In the bad…

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…