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New SystemVerilog Book Helps Engineers Master the Adoption of the VMM Methodology
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VhdlCohen Publishes A Pragmatic Approach to VMM Adoption: 'A SystemVerilog
Framework for Testbenches'
PALOS VERDES PENINSULA, Calif., July 27 /PRNewswire/ -- VhdlCohen
Publishing, a verification service provider, today announced the immediate
availability of a new book, "A Pragmatic Approach to VMM Adoption: A
SystemVerilog Framework for Testbenches," a companion book to the
Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog. The new book is
co-authored by Ben Cohen, a well-known consultant and author of several
technical books addressing the effective use of Verilog and VHDL for logic
design and verification; Srinivasan Venkataramanan, verification solutions
applications manager at Synopsys, Inc.; and Ajeetha Kumari from
Contemporary Verification Consultants Pvt. Ltd., of Bangalore, India. The
book is intended for engineers involved in the increasingly important task
of verifying the functionality of complex digital electronic circuits. It
provides background on the coverage- driven, constrained-random
verification environments detailed in the VMM book and offers advice on
adoption and deployment. The book presents by example the practical
application of the VMM methodology using SystemVerilog.
"Our experience with the VMM methodology has been very positive because
it requires a minimal knowledge of object-oriented programming to put the
verification effort where it belongs -- into the problem at hand," said Ben
Cohen, co-author of "A Pragmatic Approach to VMM Adoption, VhdlCohen
Publishing." "It also brings a common look and feel to every VMM-based
verification environment and provides a mature framework that has endured
years of active use."
"A Pragmatic Approach to Adopting VMM" is intended to help design and
verification engineers come up to speed in the design of SystemVerilog
transaction-based testbenches that comply with the VMM for SystemVerilog.
With complete, compilable and executable examples, it will help users adopt
the VMM methodology in the creation of comprehensive constrained-random and
directed verification environments using a transaction-level modeling
approach. All code examples are available for download. The book makes use
of the most practical rules of the VMM methodology to demonstrate and show
how to create a VMM-compliant testbench.
"One of the reasons that we decided to write 'A Pragmatic Approach to
Adopting VMM' is because we truly believe that the VMM methodology is a
framework that allows you to quickly create fast, reusable, and extendable
testbenches using SystemVerilog," continued Cohen. "This book adds some
additional explanations and practical, complete examples to emphasize the
features of the VMM methodology. This book also presents the results of
real- life experiences applying the methodology to various problems,
providing useful insight and enabling faster SystemVerilog testbench
adoption."
The book demonstrates features and techniques that support
transactions, generators, command transactors (such as bus functional
models), logging of messages, and the verification environment. Since
SystemVerilog includes object-oriented programming (OOP) capabilities, the
book provides applications of OOP design patterns such as factories and
callbacks. In addition, it addresses advanced topics that relate to
different applications and verification, including the synchronization of
events through the notification services, channel broadcast, channel
scheduling, and the role of coverage.
"The advanced techniques detailed in the VMM for SystemVerilog deliver
tremendous value in terms of verification productivity and predictability,
but some training is helpful at making adoption as quick and easy as
possible," said Janick Bergeron, Synopsys Scientist. "I am pleased to
welcome 'A Pragmatic Approach to Adopting VMM' to the canon of VMM-related
literature. I hope users will find it helpful in appreciating the power of
the VMM methodology and ease their adoption of it."
"'A Pragmatic Approach to Adopting VMM' can be seen as a practical
review of best practices for writing SystemVerilog-based testbenches," said
Alain Raynaud, Technical Director, EVE USA, Inc. "Companies should adopt
the VMM methodology, if only to save cost, as verification engineers have
better things to do than redevelop and learn a new testbench environment
every time they change projects."
"A Pragmatic Approach to VMM Adoption: A SystemVerilog Framework for
Testbenches" is available now from VhdlCohen Publishing for $125 US. To
find out more about the book or to order it online, please visit:
http://www.systemverilog.us/vmm_info.html .
About VhdlCohen Publishing
VhdlCohen Publishing provides verification education and services and
has teamed with Stuart Sutherland of Sutherland HDL, Inc., and a member of
the IEEE P1800 SystemVerilog Working Group, to provide training of several
verification courses including the application of VMM and SystemVerilog
assertions. VhdlCohen was founded in 2000 in Palos Verdes Peninsula,
California. More information can be found at http://www.systemverilog.us .
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