A couple of weeks ago, I took a pre-briefing from the folks at Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems on their plans to standardize on a jointly developed common SystemVerilog verification ...

[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, ...

SystemVerilog was developed as an extension to the widely used Verilog hardware description language. In addition to new design constructs that bring the language to a higher level of abstraction, it ...

SystemVerilog marries a number of verification concepts, primarily in the areas of design, assertions, and testbench creation, that were previously embodied in separate and sometimes proprietary ...

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...

Modeling a verification environment with transactions encompasses many areas, including test bench design and debug, golden model comparison, functional verification between abstraction levels and ...

Verilog has a very limited and simple hierarchy. All processes are present in static modules. In some ways, System Verilog extends this concept of hierarchy with the support for dynamic data type of ...

Hundreds of variations of open-source CPUs written in an HDL seem to float around the internet these days (and that’s a great thing). Many are RISC-V, an open-source instruction set (ISA), and are ...