Design-Reuse

Accellera Approves Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) Standard

Open-Source SystemVerilog base class library implementation and User Guide accompanies the UVM Class Reference Manual; Workshop set for Monday, Feb. 28 at DVCon NAPA, Calif., February 21, 2011 — ...
Semiconductor Engineering

UVM: What’s Stopping You?

These days, verification of the most complex designs is performed using a standard verification methodology, probably SystemVerilog-based UVM. Many verification teams have ramped up on UVM, but others ...
EDN

A SystemC-based UVM verification infrastructure

My company, TVS, recently completed a SystemC-based Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) project for Blu Wireless Technology, a UK-based company that develops silicon-proven mmWave wireless ...
Semiconductor Engineering

AI Agents For UVM Generation: Challenges And Opportunities

The first major challenge directly comes from the limited data. Unlike software engineering tasks, where large-scale public data is abundant, the hardware domain, especially UVM verification, is ...
Electronic Design

Make the Move from Module-Based Mixed-Signal Verification to UVM

This file type includes high resolution graphics and schematics when applicable. This article discusses techniques used to achieve this transition, including proxy SystemVerilog interface task calls ...
EDN

Reuse UVM RTL verification tests for gate level simulation

When we verify a System on Chip (SoC) that embeds microprocessors with several digital peripherals, and possibly analog blocks as well, we want to check all the implemented features and possible ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Inside UVM

We have all been witnesses to the rapid improvements of the iPhone processor chip every year. With the iPhone 8 featuring the newest A11 Bionic at 10 nm FinFET with 4.3 billion transistors, I can’t ...