{"id":6887,"date":"2012-11-20T23:51:10","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T06:51:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=6887"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:43:32","slug":"coverage-cookbook-debuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2012\/11\/20\/coverage-cookbook-debuts\/","title":{"rendered":"Coverage Cookbook Debuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Verification Academy Adds Major New Technical Resource<\/h3>\n

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The Verification Academy<\/a> adds another major methodology cookbook to focus on effective coverage adoption.\u00a0 The Coverage Cookbook<\/a> describes the different types of coverage that are available to track your verification process progress, how to create a functional coverage model from a specification, and provides examples to implement functional coverage for different types of designs.<\/p>\n

Verification Academy \u201cfull access\u201d members have access to the free Coverage Cookbook and the UVM\/OVM Cookbooks as well.\u00a0 Are you a registered full access member?\u00a0 If not, register<\/a> now to become a full access<\/em> member.\u00a0 (Restrictions apply.)<\/p>\n

Coverage is not a new topic.\u00a0 It was one of major additions to the SystemVerilog (IEEE Std. 1800\u2122-2009)<\/a> standard.\u00a0 But the SystemVerilog functional coverage extensions were left to the verification engineer to use in such as way to return meaningful measurements of how much of the design specification was being tested.\u00a0 The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM<\/a>) offers greater structure for coverage over SystemVerilog, but it too, is still only a piece of the puzzle.<\/p>\n

\"image\"<\/a>As verification teams have come to generate greater amounts of information from use of SystemVerilog, UVM and other verification tools, the data from the verification runs needs to be easily used to drive coverage closure.\u00a0 Within the Mentor Graphics Questa<\/a> verification platform, this resulted in the development of the Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) and associated verification management and planning features.<\/p>\n

Since verification teams use a variety of tools and technology from many sources, it was an imperative that verification information could be easily shared and combined to help drive faster coverage closure across the industry.\u00a0 This is why Mentor Graphics donated its UCDB API to Accellera where it became the Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard (UCIS<\/a>).<\/p>\n

It would be great to think that we are done; but we\u2019re not.\u00a0 Tools and data are just two dimensions of the three dimensions to any IC design project.\u00a0 A comprehensive approach to verification management that handles all of this adds the third dimension.\u00a0 The Mentor Graphics Questa Verification Management<\/a> features handle all this.<\/p>\n

Now the question is how to best adopt and use all the capabilities at hand from the standards to the verification technology at your finger tips.<\/p>\n

The Verification Academy Coverage Cookbook is one of the important tools you now have to help pull all the information into a single place where you can learn the theory and put that theory into practice.\u00a0 The Coverage Cookbook is much like the OVM\/UVM Cookbooks in that it is web friendly, while supporting the ability for you to generate a PDF file of the whole document in case you want to have a printed copy or have it available for offline reference.<\/p>\n

The Theory<\/em> section covers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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