How To Connect Your Testbench to Your Low Power UPF Models

How To Connect Your Testbench to Your Low Power UPF Models

Face facts: power supply nets are now effectively functional nets, but they are typically not defined in the design’s RTL….

Part 10: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 10: The 2016 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 2016…

Prologue: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Prologue: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This is the first in a series of blogs that presents the findings from our new 2016 Wilson Research Group…

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

As I mentioned in my last UVM post, UVM allows engineers to create modular, reusable, randomized self-checking testbenches. In that…

Part 6: The 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 6: The 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2014 Wilson…

UVM Debug. A contest using class based testbench debug…

UVM Debug. A contest using class based testbench debug…

Still having fun doing UVM and Class based debug? Maybe a debug contest will help. I had a contest with…

Is Gate-Level Simulation Still Required Nowadays??

Is Gate-Level Simulation Still Required Nowadays??

A colleague recently asked me: Has anything changed? Do design teams tape-out nowadays without GLS (Gate-Level Simulation)? And if so,…

SystemVerilog Testbench Debug – Are we having fun yet?

SystemVerilog Testbench Debug – Are we having fun yet?

SystemVerilog Testbench Debug – Are we having fun yet? Fun Debug should be fun. Watching waveforms march by, seeing ERRORS…

Happy Halloween from ARM  TechCon

Happy Halloween from ARM TechCon

MENTOR GRAPHICS AT ARM TECHCON This week ARM® TechCon® 2013 is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from…