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System Verilog Assertions (SVA) and Formal Verification Domain Certification Training

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Length: 28 hours

Course Description

The formal fundamental course is intended for people with little or no experience in Formal Analysis (FA) and Jasper™. This course pragmatically illustrates how to code efficient SVA properties for formal analysis. Formal analysis is an entirely different paradigm from older and more widely adopted verification methods, such as simulation. As such, the fundamental objectives, capabilities, limitations, setup, initialization requirements, and analysis and interpretation of results must be well understood before we can effectively use Formal tools and specialized Jasper Apps. Formal is capable of much more than simulation alone and can deliver optimization techniques that often need to be applied to get conclusive results within realistic timescales. These techniques are complicated to discover or pick up "as one goes along" without training or expert assistance. Anyone can run a Formal tool, but experience is needed to get conclusive results in a realistic, wholly understood timeframe. This course is intended as a shortcut to gaining that experience. The course has 60% lectures and 40% hands-on labs.

The SystemVerilog Assertions or SVA course gives you an in-depth introduction to SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA), together with guidelines and methodologies to help you create, manage, and debug effective assertions for complex design properties. The course is packed with examples, case studies, and hands-on lab exercises to demonstrate real-life applications of SVA using both simulation and formal techniques. Different approaches to coding assertions and reuse issues are also examined.

Learning Objectives

After completing this course, you will be able to:

  • State the motivation and methodology of using Assertion Based Verification (ABV)
  • Define sequential and boolean properties and all of the different ways of aborting them
  • List all the different ways of defining a property clock, including multi-clocked properties
  • Demonstrate, with examples, good and bad SVA coding styles and show techniques for the most efficient creation of complex assertions
  • Describe common behaviors that SVA cannot describe and how to overcome these issues
  • List the issues regarding property set (verification) completeness
  • Define liveness, fairness, and safety properties that match your intent
  • List the property forming SVA operators and constructs that are of practical use and those that are not, stating the reasons why
  • List the property forming SVA operators and constructs that may not be efficient for formal analysis but may be useful in simulation
  • Use the language features and methodologies for property reuse, including from formal to simulation and vice-versa
  • State the motivation and methodology of defining coverage with SVA
  • Correctly define liveness, fairness, and safety properties
  • State the motivation and methodology of using Auxiliary (HDL helper) code
  • Define reusable, functionally correct SVA properties that are efficient for formal tools
  • Set up, run, and analyze results from Formal Analysis, having identified designs upon which formal is likely to be successful
  • Understand formal complexity issues and how to overcome them
  • Create a complete formal environment from scratch given only a DUT functional specification
  • Understand the basics of Formal coverage

Software Used in This Course

  • This certification program contains several courses, each with its own software requirements. Refer to each of the course links provided in the course description and course contents for the specifics.

Software Release(s)

Each course URL contains the software release information for that course.

Modules in this Course

  • SystemVerilog Assertions
  • Jasper Formal Fundamentals

Audience

  • Design and Verification Engineers
  • Verification and Engineering Managers

Prerequisites

Before taking the SVA course, you need to have already:

  • Experience in writing Verilog or SystemVerilog Code, for example,
    • Write a boolean expression in SystemVerilog
    • Describe a module
    • Define an event control, for example, @(posedge clk)
  • Or, complete the following training courses
    • Verilog Language and Application
    • SystemVerilog for Design and Verification
Before taking the Jasper™ Formal Fundamentals course, you need to have already:
  • Have experience writing properties with SVA.

Or, you must have completed the following course:

SystemVerilog Assertions

Related Courses

  • Jasper Formal Fundamentals
  • SystemVerilog for Design and Verification
  • Xcelium Simulator
  • Jasper Formal Expert
Course ID: 86373

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