Cooking at Home or Eating Out? - The Pros and Cons of Homegrown VIP
By now, we're all pretty much convinced that reuse is essential in the semiconductor industry. Gone are the days when we built everything from scratch an re-...
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On SystemVerilog Coding Conventions - Challenging the Status Quo
When I first started out I remember reading all of these nice naming conventions for SystemVerilog. For example, when developing a new verification component...
Do You Want Sprinkles with That? - Mixing in Constraints
The goal of modern verification techniques is to do as much as possible with as little code as possible. This is best done with a "write once, tweak everywhe...
Patching a Leaky Boat - Handling UVM Bugs
This week I stumbled on an issue with the UVM base class library (BCL). I was using the register layer to access some memories and some things just didn't ad...
Less Is More - Why I Favor Short Tests
We're not going to be looking at any code in this post. We are, however, going to examine the impact the length of the tests we write has on various aspects ...