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

AI Agents For UVM Generation: Challenges And Opportunities

The first major challenge directly comes from the limited data. Unlike software engineering tasks, where large-scale public data is abundant, the hardware domain, especially UVM verification, is ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Efficient Verification Of Mixed-Signal SerDes IP Using UVM

Interface IP is an integral part of systems-on-chips (SoC) that include mobile, automotive, or networking applications and are primarily used for transmitting data over a physical medium between a ...
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

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

Improving analog design verification using UVM

As technology becomes more integrated into our everyday life, our chips need to better communicate with the analog world. Most modern system on chip (SoC) designs therefore contain analog and ...
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 ...