Semiconductor Engineering

The UVM Configuration Database

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Semiconductor Engineering

Best Practices In Verification

The advent of advanced verification methodologies such as the UVM and its predecessors VMM and OVM has changed the verification landscape in many ways. Design and verification teams used to worry ...
Design-Reuse

Building Your UVM Verification Environment for Cache Coherent Interconnects

The ARM® AMBA® 4 Coherency Extension (ACE™) specification was officially published more than a year ago. The main driver for the ACE spec is the need to support hardware-managed cache coherency, ...
Design-Reuse

ACE'ing the verification of a cache coherent system using UVM

The AMBA 4 specification for the connection and management of functional blocks in a system-on-chip (SoC) now features Advanced eXtensible Interface (AXI) coherency extensions (ACE) in support of ...