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System-level verification: Islands vs Continents
As the saying goes, "There is nothing permanent except change". However, even with constant change, similarities with what came before abound and true and complete discontinuities are relatively rare. This is certainly true in the functional verification space…
Verification Frameworks and System-Level Verification
It seems the last decade or so has been the decade of the verification language and the verification framework. From SystemC, Vera, and 'e' to SystemVerilog, and VMM and AVM to OVM and UVM, a lot of focus has been placed on making design verification engineers…
SVEditor: What's that reference? (Part 1)
One key feature of integrated development environments -- especially those for object oriented languages -- is the ability to find the references to a data type, a method, or a data field. A few months back, I implemented initial reference-finding functionalit…