Scoreboards and Results Predictors in UVM

If verification is the art of determining that your design works correctly under all specified conditions, then it is imperative that we are able to create an environment that can tell you if this is truly the case.

Scoreboards are verification components that determine that the DUT is working correctly, including ensuring that the DUT properly handles all stimuli it receives. Predictors are components that represent a “golden” model of all or part of the DUT that generate an expected response against which the scoreboard can compare the actual response of the DUT. This online webinar will outline the proper architecture of scoreboards and predictors in UVM and how they relate to coverage.

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What You Will Learn:

• Basic scoreboard architecture
• Basic predictor architecture
• Integration of predictors and scoreboards
• Using a predictor for stimulus
• Integrating SystemC into your predictor with UVM Connect
• Tradeoffs in including coverage in your scoreboard
• Efficient messaging to simplify results analysis

Target Audience:

• Design and Verification Engineers and Managers

About the Presenter:

Tom Fitzpatrick Verification Technologist
Tom is currently a Verification Technologist at Mentor Graphics Corp. where he brings over two decades of design and verification experience to bear on developing advanced verification methodologies, particularly using SystemVerilog, and educating users on how to adopt them. He has been actively involved in the standardization of SystemVerilog, starting with his days as a member of the Superlog language design team at Co-Design Automation through its standardization via Accellera and then the IEEE, where he has served as chair of the 1364 Verilog Working Group, as well as a Technical Champion on the SystemVerilog P1800 Working Group. At Mentor Graphics, Tom was one of the original designers of the Advanced Verification Methodology (AVM), and later the Open Verification Methodology (OVM), and is the editor of Verification Horizons, a quarterly newsletter with approximately 40,000 subscribers. He is a charter member and key contributor to the Accellera Verification IP Technical Subcomittee. He has published multiple articles and technical papers about SystemVerilog, verification methodologies, assertion-based verification, functional coverage, formal verification and other functional verification topics.