EDN

SpringSoft turns the power of Verdi on SystemVerilog test benches

SystemVerilog was supposed to be such a boon to verification engineers. By providing a Verilog-like language with extensions that made it easy to write transactors, assertions, and checkers, the ...
EDN

Debugging and analysis with SystemVerilog test bench

The verification component of SystemVerilog has dominated the rapid adoption of the language. The new verification syntax in the language allows for dramatic productivity gains in the verification ...
Design-Reuse

Borrowing from software to use SystemVerilog test bench debug & analysis

Shrinking silicon geometries enable larger SoC-type designs in terms of raw gate size, and many of today's applications take advantage of this trend. An important point that is often missed is the ...
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 ...
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 ...