Length: 5 days
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Course Description
In this course, you create an e language reusable block-level verification environment and simulate it with the Xcelium™ simulator and analyze the simulation with the SimVision™ graphical simulation analysis environment.
The course provides an introduction to the e language in the context of the Coverage-Driven Verification (CDV) methodology. You use the standard Universal Verification Methodology (UVM-e) to build a reusable verification environment.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Explain the need for and nature of the coverage-driven verification methodology
- Implement basic e syntax
- Generate constrained random values
- Define conditional struct subtypes
- Connect to and interact with the DUT
- Check the DUT behavior
- Cover the DUT functionality
- Develop an interface UVC for the Simple Packet Protocol
- Develop a sequence library for stimulus generation
- Develop a module UVC for the SPP router module
- Implement a mechanism to handle reset during verification
- Implement a mechanism to cleanly terminate the simulation
Software Used in This Course
- Xcelium Single-Core
- Integrated Metrics Center
Software Release(s)
XCELIUM2003, VMANAGER2003
Modules in this Course
- Introduction to Coverage-Driven Verification
- Write Simple e Programs
- Generating Constrained Random Values
- Creating Test Variations with AOP
- Connecting to and Interacting with the DUT
- Checking DUT Behavior
- Covering DUT Functionality
- Developing an Interface UVC
- Developing Sequences
- Developing a Module UVC
- Handling Reset and End-Of-Test
Audience
- Verification personnel wanting to use the e Functional Verification language and potentially also the e Universal Verification Methodology (e-UVM).
Prerequisites
You must have experience with or knowledge of the following:
- Any object-oriented language, such as C++, C#, SystemVerilog class constructs, Java or Python
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