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Versal ACAP Simulation Challenges

The electronics industry is all about optimization, and always has been. For example, you might think of system on chip (SoC) as a relatively recent term, coined this century. However, many regard the silicon that appeared in digital watches in the 1970s as constituting a system on a chip, ...

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Problems Accessing Registers? – See how UVM RAL can help.

As a digital design or verification engineer you know that certain features or configurations of the device can be achieved by programming some registers to set values. For example, a 32-bit register can have several fields within it...

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Verification Effectiveness with Riviera-PRO: SystemVerilog Randomized Layered Testbench
Understanding SystemVerilog Layered Testbench

In this blog, I will discuss randomized layered testbenches used in SystemVerilog. We need to understand why we need it, ...

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Understanding the inner workings of UVM - Part 3
UVM Basics Part 3 of 3

In this blog, I am going to discuss different phases that UVM follows.   The reason why UVM came up with such phases is because synchronization among all design-testbench was necessary. Using Verilog and VHDL,...

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Understanding the inner workings of UVM - Part 2
UVM Basics Part 2 of 3

In this blog, my major focus is on explaining the concepts such as Sequence, Sequencer, Driver and showing how the communication takes place from sequence to sequencer and from sequencer to driver. In the previous blog, I included...

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Understanding the inner workings of UVM
UVM Basics Part 1 of 3

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 personally fathom the amount...

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Beer, Cars, and Verification
My thoughts after DVCon Europe

As I write this, I am visiting the Aldec corporate office in the US on the day following their historical presidential election. It’s been a busy travel season for this product manager, and only a few weeks ago I was at DVCon Europe in Munich - the city of pork knuckles, beer... and of course, cars. ...

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The UVM Configuration Database
Keeping a neat repository for flexible testbench structure

When I want to wear a certain clothing item, I take out it of the closet. When I go shopping, I add those clothes it to my closet and there are now new items for me to pick out in the future....

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Acceleration-Ready UVM
Guest Blog by Doulos CTO, John Aynsley

We hear that emulation is one of the fastest-growing segments in EDA right now, yet simulation still continues to be the main workhorse for functional verification, and SystemVerilog and UVM are everywhere you look....

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UVM Register Layer: The Structure
Creating an anatomically correct model for poking and prodding.

I don’t know about you, but I am looking forward to the day where we won’t even have to go to the doctor’s office for an exam. Instead, we will all have scanners in our homes that will transmit full digital models to our doctors...

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