{"id":11232,"date":"2014-12-12T15:41:33","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T22:41:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=11232"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:41:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:41:22","slug":"latest-issue-of-verification-horizons-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2014\/12\/12\/latest-issue-of-verification-horizons-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Issue of Verification Horizons Available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Christmas and other year-end holidays, I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Verification Horizons <\/a>is now available on-line. As usual, we have a great lineup of articles that I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ll find informative:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/ethernet-qvip\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Integrate Ethernet QVIP in a Few Hours: an A-to-Z Guide <\/a>&#8211; Shows how to instantiate a Questa VIP (QVIP) component quickly and easily into your UVM environment, including how to arrange your environment to configure the QVIP and take advantage of built-in protocol-specific analysis, coverage and debug features of the component.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/fast-track-productivity-questa-verification-platform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fast Track to Productivity Using Questa VIP <\/a>-Takes you through a new set of productivity features that we\u2019ve named\u201cEZ-VIP\u201d that provides predefined sequences,configuration objects and wrapper modules to function as a \u201cQuick Starter Kit\u201d to help you get up and running quickly to verify standard design IP for popular protocols like PCIe and AXI4.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/cache-coherent-interface\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cache-Coherent Interface Verification IP <\/a>&#8211; Extends the EZ-VIP discussion to focus on the use\n<div>generic read\/write APIs for ARM\u00ae AMBA\u00ae cache-coherent protocol verification. By providing a coherency API as well as a cache controller in the VIP, the task of writing meaningful stimulus sequences becomes much simpler.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/design-engineer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">How Design Engineers Can Get Verification Engineers to Stop Complaining, and Other Advice <\/a>&#8211; Somewhat irreverent and refreshingly candid advice for design engineers to help them avoid some of themore common pitfalls that cause tension between design and verification teams.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/make-uvm-easier-to-use\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Please! Can Someone Make UVM Easier to Use? <\/a>&#8211; Best Poster Award-winner at DVCon India.\n<div>A series of \u201cbefore\u201d and \u201cafter\u201dcode examples to show you how to use just the right set of features in UVM to make your code clear, concise and easy to debug.<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/on-the-fly-resets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Controlling On-The-Fly Reset in a UVM-Based AXI Testbench Environment <\/a>-How to handle<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>resets and re-generate DUT traffic in UVM without using phase jumping.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div>\n<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verificationhorizons\/volume10\/issue3\/increase-verification-productivity\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Increase Verification Productivity with Questa UVM Debug<\/a> &#8211; Shows you how to take advantage of the UVM-specific debug features built into Questa to maximize your visibility into your UVM testbench.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By the way, if you&#8217;d like to subscribe to our quarterly Verification Horizons newsletter, you may do so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mentor.com\/products\/fv\/verification_news\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whichever holiday(s) you celebrate at this special time of year, I hope you experience the peace, joy and hope that my family and I will share this Christmas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just in time for Christmas and other year-end holidays, I am pleased to announce that the latest issue of Verification&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71936,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-11232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71936"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11232"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14527,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11232\/revisions\/14527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=11232"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=11232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}