Hardware Verification with System Verilog

This book focuses on Object Orientation Programming and its applications for C++ and SystemVerilog. It includes discussion on why and when certain features should be used. The book also includes an open source verification framework as well as examples.

Verification is increasingly complex, and SystemVerilog is one of the languages that the verification community is turning to. However, no language by itself can guarantee success without proper techniques. Object-oriented programming (OOP), with its focus on managing complexity, is ideally suited to this task. With this handbookthe first to focus on applying OOP to SystemVerilogwe'll show how to manage complexity by using layers of abstraction and base classes. By adapting these techniques, you will write more "reasonable" code, and build efficient and reusable verification components. Both a learning tool and a reference, this handbook contains hundreds of real-world code snippets and three professional verification-system examples. You can copy and paste from these examples, which are all based on an open-source, vendor-neutral framework (with code freely available at www.trusster.com). Learn about OOP techniques such as these: Creating classescode interfaces, factory functions, reuse Connecting classespointers, inheritance, channels Using "correct by construction"strong typing, base classes Packaging it upsingletons, static methods, packages

Inhalt
SystemVerilog and Verification (The Why and How).- Why SystemVerilog?.- OOP and SystemVerilog.- A Layered Approach.- An Open-Source Environment with SystemVerilog.- Teal Basics.- Truss: A Standard Verification Framework.- Truss Flow.- Truss Example.- Using OOP for Verification (Best Practices).- Thinking OOP.- Designing with OOP.- OOP Classes.- OOP Connections.- Coding OOP.- Examples (Putting It All Together).- Block-Level Testing.- Chip-Level Testing.- Things to Remember.- Examples (Putting It All Together).