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 ...
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 ...
Design-Reuse

SystemVerilog key to new design paradigm

SAN JOSE, Calif. — The SystemVerilog 3.1 specification is undergoing final reviews and Synopsys plans to have a synthesis tool for SystemVerilog assertions in the next 12 months, said Synopsys CEO ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...
EDN

SystemVerilog reference verification methodology: ESL

Over the past 20 years, the level of abstraction for chip design has risen from transistors through gates and RTL to the electronic system level (ESL). While the level of abstraction required to ...