Length: 3 Days (24 hours)
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Course Description
Cadence® Verisium™ Manager is a revolutionary tool that is completely based on the metric-driven verification methodology. It is a complete database-driven architecture with powerful new features for tracking verification progress. This tool 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.
Learning Objectives
After completing this course, you will be able to:
- Define and review the Cadence Metric Driven Verification (MDV) methodology
- Recognize the importance of verification planning and develop a vPlan
- Explore the Verisium Manager tool and identify the various centers
- Set up the server profile for the Verisium Manager server
- Use Verisium Manager Planning to create a verification plan in 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 Verisium Manager and map coverage
- Analyze metrics and perform coverage correlation and ranking
- Recognize the usefulness of Web dashboard, vAPI, Sever Security Authentication and Authorization
- Generate project reporting and charting in Tracking Center
Software Used in This Course
- VMANAGER 2408
- XCELIUM 2403
Software Release(s)
VMG001, QTY 1, VMG002, QTY 1, VMG005, QTY 5, VMG100, VMG200, VMGA01, VMGHA01
Modules in this Course
- What Is Metric Driven Verification (MDV)?
- Verisium Manager – An Introduction
- Setting Up the Verisium Manager Server
- What Is Verification Planning?
- Creating a vPlan Using Verisium Manager Planning
- vPlan Analysis
- Running Regressions and Related 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
- Verisium Manager Gen4 License and High Availability Platform
- vPlan DB
- Session Composer
- Verisium Manager Batch Mode
Audience
- Verification Engineers building coverage-driven verification plans
- Architects
- Testbench Architects
- Verification and Design Engineers
Prerequisites
Before taking this course, you need to have
- A basic working knowledge of coverage, specifically functional coverage
- Some experience working in Universal Verification Methodology (UVM)
Knowledge of SystemVerilog (SV)or e, constrained random verification methodology or assertion-based verification methodology or SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions)
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
