Advanced UVM
Since its introduction in 2011, the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) has achieved its promise of becoming the dominant platform for semiconductor design verification. Advanced UVM delivers proven coding guidelines, convenient recipes for common tasks, and cutting-edge techniques to provide a framework within UVM. Once adopted by an organization, these strategies will create immediate benefits, and help verification teams develop scalable, high-performance environments and maximize...
FPGA Design: Best Practices for Team-based Reuse
This book describes best practices for successful FPGA design. It is the result of the author’s meetings with hundreds of customers on the challenges facing each of their FPGA design teams. By gaining an understanding into their design environments, processes, what works and what does not work, key areas of concern in implementing system designs have been identified and a recommended design methodology to overcome these challenges has been developed.
This book’s content has a strong focus...
Writing Testbenches using SystemVerilog
Verification is too often approached in an ad hoc fashion. Visually inspecting simulation results is no longer feasible and the directed test-case methodology is reaching its limit. Moore's Law demands a productivity revolution in functional verification methodology.
Writing Testbenches Using SystemVerilog offers a clear blueprint of a verification process that aims for first-time success using the SystemVerilog language. From simulators to source management tools, from specification to...
Logic Design and Verification Using Systemverilog
SystemVerilog is a Hardware Description Language that enables designers to work at the higher levels of logic design abstractions that match the increased complexity of current day integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. The majority of the book assumes a basic background in logic design and software programming concepts. It is directed at: • students currently in an introductory logic design course that also teaches SystemVerilog, • designers who want to...
Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog(TM) HDL
Aimed at advanced courses in digital design for seniors and first-year graduate students in electrical engineering, computer engineering, and computer science, this book assumes and builds on the background of a first course in logic design.
A SystemVerilog Primer
- Written for new users. - Explains the language through simple examples. - Explains the syntax of language using commonly-used design terminology. - Based on IEEE 1800-2009 - Writing is made easier by providing a number of examples - Many hardware modeling examples also been provided to make this an excellent reference
Writing Testbenches: Functional Verification of HDL Models
mental improvements during the same period. What is clearly needed in verification techniques and technology is the equivalent of a synthesis productivity breakthrough. In the second edition of Writing Testbenches, Bergeron raises the verification level of abstraction by introducing coverage-driven constrained-random transaction-level self-checking testbenches all made possible through the introduction of hardware verification languages (HVLs), such as e from Verisity and OpenVera from...
Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL, VHDL, and SystemVerilog
For introductory courses on digital design in an Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or Computer Science department.
A clear and accessible approach to the basic tools, concepts, and applications of digital design
A modern update to a classic, authoritative text, Digital Design, 5th Edition teaches the fundamental concepts of digital design in a clear, accessible manner. The text presents the basic tools for the design of digital circuits and provides procedures...
Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog
An eagerly anticipated, up-to-date guide to essential digitaldesign fundamentals
Offering a modern, updated approach to digital design, thismuch-needed book reviews basic design fundamentals before divinginto specific details of design optimization. You begin with anexamination of the low-levels of design, noting a clear distinctionbetween design and gate-level minimization. The author thenprogresses to the key uses of digital design today, and how it isused to build high-performance...
Designing Digital Systems With SystemVerilog
This textbook is for a university freshman/sophomore course on digital logic and digital systems design. In addition, the SystemVerilog language is interwoven throughout the text, providing both new learners as well as existing digital logic designers an introduction to the SystemVerilog language and its use for designing digital systems.
Formal Verification: An Essential Toolkit for Modern VLSI Design
Formal Verification: An Essential Toolkit for Modern VLSI Design presents practical approaches for design and validation, with hands-on advice to help working engineers integrate these techniques into their work. Formal Verification (FV) enables a designer to directly analyze and mathematically explore the quality or other aspects of a Register Transfer Level (RTL) design without using simulations. This can reduce time spent validating designs and more quickly reach a final design for...
Computer Principles and Design in Verilog HDL
Uses Verilog HDL to illustrate computer architecture and microprocessor design, allowing readers to readily simulate and adjust the operation of each design, and thus build industrially relevant skills• Introduces the computer principles, computer design, and how to use Verilog HDL (Hardware Description Language) to implement the design• Provides the skills for designing processor/arithmetic/cpu chips, including the unique application of Verilog HDL material for CPU (central processing...
Design Recipes for FPGAs: Using Verilog and VHDL
This book provides a rich toolbox of design techniques and templates to solve practical, every-day problems using FPGAs. Using a modular structure, it provides design techniques and templates at all levels, together with functional code, which you can easily match and apply to your application. Written in an informal and easy to grasp style, this invaluable resource goes beyond the principles of FPGAs and hardware description languages to demonstrate how specific designs can be synthesized,...
Digital Logic RTL & Verilog Interview Questions
Are you ready for your job interview? This book is a perfect study guide for digital design engineers or college students who want to practice real digital logic and RTL questions. The questions were put together first hand by a professional engineer based upon his own job search with top tier semiconductor companies. A wide range of information and topics are covered, including: RTL Verilog coding syntax, RTL Logic Design (including low power RTL design principles), clocking and reset...
SuperSpeed Device Design By Example
This is a "How-To" book which explains, with hands-on examples, how to design and implement a SuperSpeed USB peripheral that can interface to your hardware using a 32-bit 100MHz bus with standard or custom protocols. The book is based on the Cypress FX3 SuperSpeed Device and the firmware examples are written around a low-cost SuperSpeed Explorer board and a companion CPLD board which are available from www.cypress.com/fx3book. The software examples are written for the Windows operating...
Digital Integrated Circuit Design Using Verilog and Systemverilog
For those with a basic understanding of digital design, this book teaches the essential skills to design digital integrated circuits using Verilog and the relevant extensions of SystemVerilog. In addition to covering the syntax of Verilog and SystemVerilog, the author provides an appreciation of design challenges and solutions for producing working circuits. The book covers not only the syntax and limitations of HDL coding, but deals extensively with design problems such as partitioning and...
Logic Design and Verification Using Systemverilog
SystemVerilog is a Hardware Description Language that enables designers to work at the higher levels of logic design abstractions that match the increased complexity of current day integrated circuit and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) designs. The majority of the book assumes a basic background in logic design and software programming concepts. It is directed at: • students currently in an introductory logic design course that also teaches SystemVerilog, • designers who want to...
Constraining Designs for Synthesis and Timing Analysis: A Practical Guide to Synopsys Design Constraints (SDC)
This book serves as a hands-on guide to timing constraints in integrated circuit design. Readers will learn to maximize performance of their IC designs, by specifying timing requirements correctly. Coverage includes key aspects of the design flow impacted by timing constraints, including synthesis, static timing analysis and placement and routing. Concepts needed for specifying timing requirements are explained in detail and then applied to specific stages in the design flow, all...
Getting Started with UVM: A Beginner's Guide
Getting Started with UVM: A Beginner's Guide is an introductory text for digital verification (and design) engineers who need to ramp up on the Universal Verification Methodology quickly. The book is filled with working examples and practical explanations that go beyond the User's Guide.
