Mentor Graphics Drives Broader Adoption of UVM
22 2월 2012 - 11:00PM
Business Wire
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) today announced
expanded support for the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM).
The UVM delivers productivity gains made possible by reuse in
functional verification. For verification teams with minimal
exposure to UVM, the first step to implement a UVM-based
verification environment is simply getting started. To facilitate
that first step, Mentor introduces UVM Express, a way to
progressively adopt a UVM methodology. Other verification teams
have an established UVM-based verification environment, but are
challenged to move their trusted verification approach up in
abstraction where a new level of system verification can be
achieved. For those verification teams, Mentor introduces UVM
Connect, which provides standard TLM 1.0 and TLM 2.0 connectivity
between models written in SystemC and UVM SystemVerilog.
“Mentor continues to see massive interest in UVM, and we are
committed to leading the effort to make UVM an integral part of
every functional verification flow,” said John Lenyo, vice
president and general manager of the Design Verification Technology
division at Mentor Graphics. “For verification teams using UVM for
the first time, UVM Express makes getting started easy and
intuitive, and extends rapid productivity gains to a broader scope
of design projects. With UVM Connect, we’ve created a link between
abstraction levels that enables design and verification engineers
to take advantage of each level’s best features without sacrificing
the ability to reuse work.”
About UVM Express
Verification teams often have time and budget constraints that
make adoption of new methodologies difficult. These teams are
exactly the kind of teams that the UVM is meant to help, but the
first step towards adoption is currently too high. UVM Express
provides a way to build the testbench environment, a way to raise
the abstraction level, a way to check the quality of tests and a
way to think about writing tests. Each of the steps outlined for
UVM Express is a reusable piece of verification infrastructure.
These UVM Express steps are a way to progressively adopt a UVM
methodology, while getting verification productivity and
verification results at each step.
Using UVM Express is not a replacement for full UVM, but instead
enables full UVM migration or co-existence at any time. UVM Express
helps everyone, regardless of their experience level, to accelerate
time to success.
About UVM Connect
As design teams move to higher levels of abstraction for
system-level architectural exploration and definition, the need for
efficient and reusable functional models becomes imperative. Design
and verification teams work with a plethora of functional models
sourced in different design languages, primarily SystemC and
SystemVerilog, where the choice of language is made in order to
exploit the advantages of the native language. By facilitating
cross-language communication via standard transaction level
modeling (TLM) interfaces, UVM Connect allows for the reuse of
SystemC architectural models as reference models in SystemVerilog
verification, and expands the inventory of Verification IP (VIP) by
making it easier to integrate off-the-shelf VIP. It lets
verification teams maximize productivity in a mixed-language,
mixed-tool environment by using either SystemC or SystemVerilog to
implement key pieces of their testbench and provides direct access
to UVM state and control flow from outside SystemVerilog.
Availability
UVM Express and UVM Connect functionality is available
immediately and can be downloaded from the Mentor Verification
Academy website: http://verificationacademy.com/. Verification
Academy modules on using UVM—UVM Express and UVM Advanced—as well
as additional training material and online documentation are also
available on the Verification Academy website.
About Mentor Graphics
Mentor Graphics Corporation (NASDAQ: MENT) is a world leader in
electronic hardware and software design solutions, providing
products, consulting services and award-winning support for the
world’s most successful electronic, semiconductor and systems
companies. Established in 1981, the company reported revenues in
the last fiscal year of about $915 million. Corporate headquarters
are located at 8005 S.W. Boeckman Road, Wilsonville, Oregon
97070-7777. World Wide Web site: http://www.mentor.com/.
(Mentor Graphics and Mentor are registered trademarks of Mentor
Graphics Corporation. All other company or product names are the
registered trademarks or trademarks of their respective
owners.)
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