Be More Assertive about Your Testbench Code
Developing verification environments revolves around writing checks. We need to separate the concepts of checking the DUT from checking testbench code. DUT c...
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My Take on SVA Usage with UVM
For verifying complex temporal behavior, SystemVerilog assertions (SVAs) are unmatched. They provide a powerful way to specify signal relationships over time...
On SystemVerilog Interface Polymorphism and Extensibility
A state of the art SystemVerilog simulation environment consists of two separate worlds. There is the static world, where interface and modules (including th...
Rambling About UVM Factory Overrides - Per Instance
In the previous post we looked at how we can use the factory to direct an existing test by changing the type of sequence items that get created by that test’...
Rambling About UVM Factory Overrides - Per Type
When working with UVM, the phrase “you gotta use the factory!” gets drilled into our heads constantly. This is because in object oriented programming (OOP) e...