EDN

Using Tcl to create a virtual component in Verilog

It has long been a goal to put realistic prototypes or models into system developer's hands as soon as possible. This has been accomplished with FPGAs, C language models and sometimes co-simulation ...
Design-Reuse

SystemVerilog 3.1 adds assertions and testbench automation

The June 2003 release of SystemVerilog 3.1 integrates testbench automation capabilities and temporal assertions into an enhanced version of Verilog. It eliminates many of Verilog's past limitations, ...
Electronic Design

Testbench Automation Tool Provides Tight Links To Verilog Simulation

Faster runtime performance, real-time access to built-in Verilog simulation coverage metrics, and a unified graphical environment for waveform analysis are all ...
EDN

Synopsys announces SystemVerilog testbench

At the SNUG (Synopsys Users Group) East meeting this week in Boston, Synopsys will release Pioneer-NTB, its new automatic testbench-verification system supporting the SystemVerilog design and ...
Electronic Design

Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog

Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Shift-Left Low Power Verification With UPF Information Model

Low power testbenches today have no visibility of the UPF objects and their states during a low power simulation. This has been one of the factors limiting the users from writing re-usable low power ...