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 ...
EDN

UVM Reactive agents verify with a handshake

UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) is widely used in creating object-oriented test environments. UVM provides two key benefits to verification engineers; one is reusability; the other is ...
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

Best Practices In Verification

The advent of advanced verification methodologies such as the UVM and its predecessors VMM and OVM has changed the verification landscape in many ways. Design and verification teams used to worry ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Extending The Benefits Of UVM To Include AMS: An Update On Accellera’s UVM-AMS Standard Development

SoC teams can be divided up into design and verification groups. For digital designs, the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), initially developed by Accellera and now standardized as IEEE 1800.2 ...
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

Getting in sync with UVM sequences

The SystemVerilog universal verification methodology (UVM) is an efficient way to generate tests and check results for functional verification, best used for block level IC or FPGA or other “smaller” ...
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 ...
Semiconductor Engineering

The Future of UVM

It’s time for a frank discussion on the future of UVM. Given how UVM usage has grown and the number of teams that rely on it, I think this conversation has been a long time coming. Is continuing to ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Extending UVM To Analog

Analog/mixed-signal content in SoCs needs to be modeled in a similar way as the digital content but does UVM make sense for pure analog? Perhaps not. As SoC complexity has grown, so too has the need ...