EDN

SystemVerilog reference verification methodology: Introduction

Verification is the single biggest challenge in the design of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and reusable IP blocks. Traditional verification methods struggle to keep pace with the ever-increasing size ...
EDN

How to improve FPGA-based ASIC prototyping with SystemVerilog

ASICs provide a solution for capturing high performance complex design concepts and preventing competitors from simply implementing comparable designs. However, creating an ASIC is a high-investment ...
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 ...
Electronic Design

Tool Automates Generation Of SystemVerilog Testbenches

THE SYSTEMVERILOG INFRASTRUCTURE is built out further with Synopsys' introduction of Pioneer-NTB. This testbenchautomation tool delivers native SystemVerilog testbench generation to users of ...
Design-Reuse

'Smart' verification moves beyond SystemVerilog 3.0

Functional verification is consuming an inordinate amount of the design cycle. Estimates vary, but most analysts and engineers agree that as much as 70 percent of the design cycle is consumed by ...