EDN

An overview of SystemVerilog 3.1

SystemVerilog is an extensive set of enhancements to the IEEE 1364 Verilog-2001 standard. These enhancements provide powerful new capabilities for modeling hardware at the RTL and system level, along ...
Design-Reuse

A SystemVerilog DPI Framework for Reusable Transaction Level Testing, Debug and Analysis of SoC Designs

Complex system design requires modeling, testing, debug and analysis of many levels of abstraction with varying levels of accuracy. Reuse from previous steps is important at each step of the design ...
Design-Reuse

Transaction Recording, Modeling and Extensions for SystemVerilog

Adoption of transaction level modeling and the necessary tools for debugging and analysis has been slower than would be expected from growing SOC design sizes and complexities. This paper discusses ...
EDN

How to raise the RTL abstraction level and design conciseness with SystemVerilog – Part 1

With the advent of advanced HDLs – such as SystemVerilog – that provide new and powerful language constructs, current hardware modeling styles can now be enhanced both in terms of abstraction level ...