In an EDA Views column posted to EEdesign April 4, 2003, Mitch Weaver of Cadence Design Systems wrote of the need to extend the Verilog standard to support ever-increasing design sizes. Mr. Weaver ...

Four years ago, as the semiconductor industry process technology crossed below 193 nanometers, the number of transistors available to a design team made it necessary to explore new design methods at a ...

[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, ...

Imperas Software, a developer of RISC-V processor verification technology, announced as part of the participation at DVCon 2021, Simon Davidmann will host a personal perspective on the formation and ...

Coursera has introduced a comprehensive SystemVerilog course aimed at intermediate learners seeking practical skills in hardware design and verification. The program guides students through building ...

SystemVerilog marries a number of verification concepts, primarily in the areas of design, assertions, and testbench creation, that were previously embodied in separate and sometimes proprietary ...

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...

Hundreds of variations of open-source CPUs written in an HDL seem to float around the internet these days (and that’s a great thing). Many are RISC-V, an open-source instruction set (ISA), and are ...