IEEE Honors Tom Fitzpatrick

At the IEEE Standards Association’s 2022 winter awards ceremony, Tom Fitzpatrick was honored for his leadership in standards development and…

The UVM type-based Factory can print base and derived objects

UVM Factory Revealed, Part 1

Introduction When you first learn UVM, most of the concepts make sense, even if you are new to Object-Oriented Programming….

Part 10: The 2022 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 2022 Wilson…

Part 6: The 2022 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2022 Wilson…

Register Testing the “Easy Way” at DVCON Europe

DVCON Europe is coming to Munich, December 6-7, 2022. Hope to see you there! I’ll be presenting a paper on…

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Does Your UVM Flavor Have Sprinkles?

Introduction UVM is a standard, so that means that every company writes their testbenches the same, universally interchangeable, right? Not…

A pool of specialized classes

Dig a Pool of Specialized SystemVerilog Classes

Introduction SystemVerilog classes are a great way to encapsulate both variables and the routines that operates on them. What if…

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UVM Testbench Debug – A Day At The Beach – Right?

Some people think UVM Testbench Debug is a drag. But really, it depends. I think it’s a day at the…

Lego Blocks

Odds and Ends

I hope that the Python for Verification Series has demonstrated that Python is a new tool in the verification team’s…