Presenter: Espen Tallaksen, CEO of EmLogic Thursday, May 5, 2022 Abstract: For most FPGA projects, over 50% of the overall project time is spent on verification. This time can be significantly reduced if the verification…
Designing FPGAs that use a single clock domain is a luxury that very few of us have. Modern FPGA designs must cope with multiple clocks running at different frequencies, very often asynchronous to each other,…
The FPGA design architecture is the single most important and primary factor in achieving development efficiency, quality and reliability. The difference between a good and a bad design architecture can be about 50% of the…
Requirements-based verification (RBV) is a popular verification process for FPGA designs used in safety-critical systems. The effectiveness of RBV is limited by the quality and precision of the requirements. Verification techniques such as constrained random…
The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is a premier conference for presentation of advances in FPGA technology. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library.…
UVM is a versatile verification methodology that enables users to run advanced verification flows for large scale FPGAs and SoC FPGAs. However, because of its advanced nature, writing UVM from scratch can be a complex…
Abstract: In a team environment, verification engineers push code changes every day, and sometimes several times a day, to a shared repository. Each change has the potential to introduce new bugs into the design. Accordingly,…
PCIe-based FPGA designs are becoming popular within avionics systems. However, the verification of such designs for DO-254 compliance with design assurance level (DAL) A or B is problematic. FPGA designs that use asynchronous clocks with…
Abstract: Today’s FPGAs and SoC FPGAs use various types of bus interconnect – such as AXI, APB, AHB, Avalon or Wishbone – for both internal (IP-level) and external communication. A recently added feature to Aldec’s…
Abstract: Testing digital hardware has never been an easy job, and it won’t get easier any time soon. But that doesn’t mean writing test code can’t be enjoyable and productive! Cocotb, an approach to use…