{"id":1806,"date":"2010-12-08T14:56:15","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T21:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/blog\/2010\/12\/08\/new-verification-horizons-methodologies-dont-have-to-be-scary\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:41:51","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:41:51","slug":"new-verification-horizons-methodologies-dont-have-to-be-scary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2010\/12\/08\/new-verification-horizons-methodologies-dont-have-to-be-scary\/","title":{"rendered":"New Verification Horizons: Methodologies Don\u2019t Have to be Scary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Just wanted to let you know that the latest edition of our <em>Verification Horizons<em> newsletter is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>. I\u2019ll be blogging about some of the articles individually a bit later, but for now you can get an overview of the contents from reading my editor\u2019s note. In addition to getting a taste of the articles, you\u2019ll also learn how my daughter\u2019s 10th birthday party was like an engineering project.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the Table of Contents:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 6&#8230;Survey Says: Verification Planning<\/a><br \/>by Harry Foster, Chief Verification Scientist Design Verification Technology,<br \/>Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 8&#8230;Firmware Verification Using SystemVerilog OVM<\/a><br \/>by Ranga Kadambi, Eric Eu, and Sudheer Arey, Infineon Singapore<br \/>Mark Glasser and Christoph Suehnel, Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/14\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 14&#8230;A SystemVerilog Configurable Coverage Model in an OVM setup<\/a><br \/>by Parag Goel, and Sakshi Bajaj, Applied Micro <br \/>with Pushkar Naik, Applied Micro<br \/>and Ashish Kumar, Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 25&#8230;Advanced Techniques for AXI Bus Fabric Verification<\/a><br \/>by Alain Gonier and Jay O\u2019Donnell, Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/34\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 34&#8230;Converting Module-Based Verification Environments to Class-Based Using SystemVerilog OOP<\/a><br \/>by Amit Tanwar, Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p><strong>Partners\u2019 Corner<br \/><\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/38\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 38&#8230;Verifying a CoFluent SystemC IP Model from a SystemVerilog UVM Testbench in Mentor Graphics Questa<\/a><br \/>by Laurent Isenegger, J\u00e9r\u00f4me Lemaitre and Wander Oliveira Ces\u00e1rio, CoFluent Design<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nxtbook.com\/nxtbooks\/mentor\/verificationhorizons_201011\/#\/44\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Page 44&#8230;What You Need to Know About Dead-Code and X-Semantic Checks<\/a><br \/>by Ping Yeung and Erich Marschner, Mentor Graphics Corporation<\/p>\n<p>I hope you enjoy this issue of <em>Verification Horizons<em>. If you\u2019d like to register to receive future issues automatically (along with nearly 30,000 of your friends and colleagues), please click <a href=\"http:\/\/go.mentor.com\/horizons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for your support,<br \/>Tom Fitzpatrick<br \/>Editor, <em>Verification Horizons<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi Everyone, Just wanted to let you know that the latest edition of our Verification Horizons newsletter is available here&#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-1806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806","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=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14550,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1806\/revisions\/14550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1806"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}