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Use SystemVerilog for coverage metrics - EDN
If formal analysis instead provides a trace showing how to reach a coverage point, this trace can provide a good hint on how to write or generate a test. Beyond individual coverage properties, you ...
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System Verilog configurable coverage model in an OVM setup - EDN
System Verilog coverage constructs – Key to configurability System Verilog provides a very fast & convenient method to describe the functional coverage for any given setup with the help of pre‐defined ...
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Functional Finite State Machine Paths Coverage using SystemVerilog
The second method, the covergroups method, uses the functional coverage construct of SystemVerilog, cover groups. Cover groups and cover points are defined to cover both state transitions, and the ...
Semiconductor Engineering7y
Three Steps To Low Power Coverage Closure - Semiconductor Engineering
UPF 3.0 HDL functions can be combined with SystemVerilog functional coverage constructs, such as covergroups and coverpoints, to create an efficient and directed low power coverage methodology. This ...
Design-Reuse15y
SystemVerilog-VHDL-SystemC Verification IP Reuse Methodology
It has been widely accepted that coverage-based verification can significantly increase the productivity, as well as the predictability, of verification. Example: Connecting a SystemVerilog Coverage ...
New Electronics2y
Open-source SystemVerilog RISC-V processor functional coverage library
Imperas Software has announced the release of the first open-source SystemVerilog RISC-V processor functional coverage library for RISC-V cores. The initial release is for RV32IMC, RV64 and other ...
Electronic Design23y
Verilog Simulator Adds Full-Featured Coverage Analysis And A C/C++ ...
The latest VCS Verilog simulator from Synopsys contains built-in comprehensive coverage analysis. With it, design teams using VCS 6.0.1 can determine their verification quality ...