Length: 3 days (24 Hours)
Digital Badge Available
Course Description
Cadence® vManager™ is a revolutionary tool which is completely based on the Metric Driven Verification methodology. It is a complete database-driven architecture of Incisive® Enterprise Manager with powerful new features for tracking verification progress. vManager provides verification management, command and control, enabling predictability, and productivity and quality to the verification environment. It improves verification scalability and helps you deliver verification projects sooner and with higher quality.
This is an Engineer Explorer series course. The Engineer Explorer courses explore advanced topics.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define and review the Cadence Metric Driven Verification (MDV) methodology
- Use the MDV in a verification project
- Recognize the importance of verification planning and develop a vPlan
- Explore the vManager tool and identify the various centers
- Set up the server profile for the vManager server
- Use vManager Planning to create a verification plan (vPlanx) format
- Apply a reusable vPlan
- Create a regression run with a Verification Session Input File (VSIF)
- Explore Metrics analysis using the Analysis Center
- Run regressions using vManager and map coverage
- Analyze metrics and perform coverage correlation and ranking
- Recognize the usefulness of the Web dashboard, vAPI, Sever Security Authentication and Authorization
- Generate project reporting and charting in tracking centers
Software Used in This Course
- vManager 20.03
- Xcelium 20.03
Software Release(s)
vManager Linux Client, VMG001, QTY 1, vManager Web Client, VMG002, QTY 1, vManager Linux Client, VMG005, QTY 5, vManager Project Server VMG100, vManager Integration Server VMG200, vManager App: Multi-Project, VMGA01, VMGHA01
Modules in this Course
- What Is Metric Driven Verification (MDV)?
- vManager – An Introduction
- Setting Up the vManager Server
- What Is Verification Planning?
- Creating a vPlan Using vManager Planning
- vPlan Analysis
- Running Regressions and Its Infrastructure
- Regression Center and Session-Related Tasks
- Collecting Runs
- Analysis Center and Runs Analysis
- Analysis Center and Metrics Analysis
- Tracking Progress to Project Closure: Tracking and Charting
- vAPI
- vManagerHigh Availability Platform/Server
- WebPortal and Server Security
- vManagerMonitor
- AppendixA: vManager Batch Mode
- AppendixB: MessageBroker
Audience
- Verification engineers building coverage-driven verification plans
- Architects
- Testbench architects
- Verification and Design engineers
Prerequisites
You must have experience with the following:
- UVM Methodology and OVM Methodology or
- Experience with SystemVerilog or e, constrained random or SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA)
- Basic working knowledge of coverage, including functional coverageReplace this text
Or you must have completed the following course:
Related Courses
- SystemVerilog Advanced Verification Using UVM
- Xcelium Integrated Coverage
- Foundations of Metric Driven Verification - this course is a desirable pre-requisite since it gives a fantastic overview of the MDV Methodology which makes this current course on vManager tool learning easy
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"One of the best technical trainings I had in 12 years."
Clemens Suessmuth, NXP Semiconductors
"The course has been very helpful because it has given me a practical and extensive overview on how to put into effect the MDV paradigm. I will definitely consider how to apply it to the project I am currently working on."
Elia Conti, CERN
"Competent trainer, nice, fruitful class. The course gave a broad overview of the methodology and the respective tool features. The instructor knew the big picture (...) very well and was also able to answer detailed questions competently."
Jan Scholz, Infineon Technologies
"A very good training. It was perfect for me."
Gert Marnaus, NXP Semiconductors
"Short and good overview of the vManager tool."
Tobias Pontesegger, Infineon Technologies
"Very well-structured and well-presented course. The instructor was always able to interact on questions."
Joerg Keber, NXP Semiconductors
"Perfect match. I have not been disappointed. It's great that the trainer tells also from his experience that he made with different users/customers. The lecture manual will be a great reference for me in the next years."
Thorsten Klose, Infineon Technologies
"The course was helpful to get started using the tool, and already provides insight in more advanced features."
Patrick Forster, Texas Instruments
"It was perfect."
Artem Rychkov, Progress Microelectronics
"I really enjoyed the course. The sessions are well prepared and easy to understand. The quality of the videos is good."
Horst Bauer, Infineon