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VHDL
John Aynsley from Doulos describes some useful, practical features from the VHDL 2008 language standard that are supported by several simulation tool vendors. You can run the examples from this video directly on EDA Playground
Useful links: The Designer's Guide to VHDL
What is the difference between VHDL and SystemVerilog? John Aynsley from Doulos compares these two language standards.
Useful links: The Designer's Guide to VHDL The Guide to SystemVerilog
John Aynsley from Doulos answers the question "How Much VHDL Training Do You Need?" by explaining Doulos' VHDL training portfolio, how to choose the right course, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Useful links: Training Courses Comprehensive VHDL
Explains how Transaction Level Modeling techniques are used to communicate between components in OVM, the Open Verification Environment.
Useful links: Getting Started with OVM The Guide to SystemVerilog
Explains the mechanisms for observing activity in VMM and OVM test benches for the purposes of checking and coverage collection.
Useful links: Getting Started with OVM Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog The Guide to SystemVerilog
Describes ten things you should know about OVM, the Open Verification Methodology for SystemVerilog. This video gives you a top-level technical overview of OVM without diving down into too much language detail.
Useful links: Getting Started with OVM The Guide to SystemVerilog
Describes OVM-SC, the implementation of the Open Verification Methodology within SystemC, which is part of the open-source OVM-ML (Mixed Language) library donated to the OVM community by Cadence.
Useful links: Getting Started with OVM The Guide to SystemVerilog
An introduction to version 1.2 of the VMM (Verification Methodology Manual) for SystemVerilog, highlighting the new features of VMM 1.2 and the overall conceptual framework.
Useful links: Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog The Guide to SystemVerilog
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a brief overview of UVM, the Universal Verification Methodology for functional verification using SystemVerilog.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
What is the difference between SystemC and SystemVerilog? This video includes a brief description of these two EDA language standards.
Useful links: The Guide to SystemC The Guide to SystemVerilog
Explains how SystemVerilog has become the natural successor to Verilog, and describes some of the features of SystemVerilog borrowed from the C programming language.
Useful links: The Designer's Guide to Verilog The Guide to SystemVerilog
John Aynsley from Doulos answers the question "How Much SystemVerilog Training Do You Need?" by explaining Doulos' SystemVerilog training portfolio, how to choose the right course, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Useful links: Training Courses In-house Training Options
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a detailed explanation of how to use the synthesis-friendly features of the SystemVerilog language. You can run the examples from this video directly on EDA Playground.
Useful links: The Guide to SystemVerilog
John Aynsley from Doulos presents a simple, complete UVM source code example (which you can download), explaining what is happening and highlighting best practice. You are shown how UVM source code is organized and how to run the example on popular SystemVerilog simulators. You can run the UVM example from this video directly on EDA Playground.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos presents a simple, complete SystemVerilog UVM source code example (which you can download), explaining what is happening and highlighting best practice. You are shown how to drive pins on the design-under-test interface from the UVM verification environment, and how to pass a virtual interface using the configuration database. You can run the UVM example from this video directly on EDA Playground.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos presents a simple, complete SystemVerilog UVM source code example (which you can download), explaining what is happening and highlighting best practice. You are shown how to use a sequencer to generate transactions and then how to pass those transactions to a driver. You can run the UVM example from this video directly on EDA Playground.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos highlights the reasons why you should (or in a few cases should not) be adopting UVM right now, and mentions some of the practicalities of migrating to UVM from other methodologies and using UVM alongside C/SystemC reference models.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos introduces the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator, which you can download from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos explains the overall structure of a UVM verification environment. This will be useful if you are trying to understand UVM or the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines, or if you want to understand the code generated by the Easier UVM Code Generator, which you can download from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos explains some of the key concepts of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos explains how to run the Easier UVM Code Generator in EDA Playground. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can create, run, and share VHDL, Verilog, SystemVerilog, e, SystemC, and Python code examples at www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM components and phases in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM configurations in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on TLM connections in UVM in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM transaction classes in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM sequences in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM tests in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on UVM reporting in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on the UVM Register Layer in the context of the Easier UVM Code Generator. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on parameterized interfaces in SystemVerilog and UVM. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on reference models and scoreboards in UVM. You can download the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and Code Generator from the Easier UVM section. Both are open and free to use, and can help you to start using UVM more quickly. You can run the example from the video on www.edaplayground.com
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on the finer points of UVM sequences, covering the topics of sequence priority, arbitration, virtual sequences, lock and grab, the sequence library, requests and responses, pipelined sequences, and layered sequences.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
John Aynsley from Doulos gives a tutorial on Run-Time Phasing in UVM, covering the topics of phase synchronization, domains, user-defined phases, schedules, phase awareness, and VIP integration.
Useful links: UVM - The Universal Verification Methodology
An introduction to the OSCI TLM-2.0 Standard, which provides interoperability between SystemC transaction-level models that are integrated around a memory-mapped bus as part of an SoC.
Useful links: Getting Started with TLM-2.0
How the OSCI SystemC TLM-2.0 standard helps achieve interoperability between transaction level models of system-on-chip components.
Useful links: Getting Started with TLM-2.0
The RTL (Register Transfer Level) and TLM (Transaction Level Modeling) abstractions are compared, and also the AT (Approximately Timed) and LT (Loosely Timed) coding styles of the OSCI SystemC TLM-2.0 standard.
Describes the OSCI SystemC TLM-2.0 base protocol checker freely available from Doulos under an open source software license.
Useful links: TLM-2.0 Base Protocol Checker
John Aynsley from Doulos answers the question "How Much SystemC Training Do You Need?" by explaining Doulos' SystemC training portfolio, how to choose the right course, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Useful links: Training Courses In-house Training Options The Guide to SystemC
Jens Stapelfeldt from Doulos describes the main features of the ArmM Cortex-M1 architecture, which is a microcontroller specialized for implementation on FPGA devices.
Useful links: Arm Resources
Jens Stapelfeldt from Doulos describes CMSIS, the Arm Cortex Microcontroller Software Interface Standard, which provides an abstraction layer for programming all Cortex M microcontrollers.
Useful links: Arm Resources
David Cabanis from Doulos explains how to use the flash patch breakpoint unit of the Arm Cortex-M3 and M4 processors.
Useful links: Arm Resources
Dave Cabanis from Doulos explains how to exploit the NEON coprocessor unit found in the Arm Cortex A processor family from your C code.
Useful links: Arm Resources
John Aynsley from Doulos answers the question "Why Learn Python?" and describes the Essential Python training course available from Doulos.
Useful links: Essential Python
John Aynsley from Doulos describes the hands-on training course Practical Deep Learning from Doulos.
Useful links: Practical Deep Learning
Simon Goda from Doulos introduces the training course Developing with Embedded Linux, and helps you to understand whether attending the training course would be of benefit to you.
Useful links: Developing with Embedded Linux
