System-Level Verification
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System Level Verification: What, Another Framework?
Frameworks have been enormously helpful in making testing and verification productive and reusable. In the RTL verification space, AVM, VMM, OVM, and UVM have all contributed to standardizing a pattern for RTL verification that encompasses encapsulation and re…
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…