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Compact VHDL Testbenches and Verification with OSVVM

Workshop

Online Live

Today’s FPGA and ASIC designs have drastically increased in size and complexity since the very beginning of digital hardware design. These elaborate circuits are described as a hierarchy of subsystems in hardware description languages like VHDL. The subsystems are most likely connected by standardized bus infrastructures like AXI, PLB, Avalon or WishBone. In addition, these systems might add a soft CPU IP core or an embedded Arm® CPU core. Such a design is way too complex to verify with simple, assertion-based testbenches.

With Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM) a structured approach is given, that increases the reusability of testbench codes. OSVVM is a free and open source available VHDL library that offers packages, data types, subprograms, and algorithms that are needed in almost every testbench. There is no need to reinvent the wheel again and again. The latest feature of OSVVM is a predefined set of verification IPs, so a wide range of standard bus interfaces is covered.
OSVVM is offering a methodology that comprises the following topics: Transaction-Based Modeling (TBM), self-checking, scoreboards, memory modeling, functional coverage, directed, algorithmic and constrained random as well as intelligent testbench test generation. A VHDL testbench environment based on OSVVM is as powerful as other competitive verification languages like SystemVerilog or ›e‹.

This course starts with simple testbenches and increases the level of abstraction progressively. Along the way the students learn about: subprogram usage, libraries, file reading and writing, modeling issues, transaction-based testbenches, bus functional models, transaction-based models, record types, resolution functions, abstractions for interface connectivity, model synchronization methods, protected types, access types (pointers), data structures (e.g. scoreboards), directed, algorithmic, constrained random, and coverage-driven random test generation, self-checking (result, timing, protocol checking and error injection), functional coverage, representation of analog values and periodic waveforms, timing and execution of code, test planning, and configurations.

Due to the short course duration, we are focussing on the theory, that is needed to implement an efficient VHDL testbench environment.

Course language: German (English possible on request)

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Michael Schwarz

+49 7664 91313-15

michael.schwarz@plc2.de

Details

Applicable technologies

None

Requirements

Advanced knowledge of VHDL and digital circuit design

Duration

3 days

Fee (net per person)

€ 2,300

Inclusive

Training material
Plus beverages during breaks
Lunch

Agenda

From basics to subprograms

Transaction-Based Models (TBM/BFM)

Elements of a transaction-based model

Data structures for verification

Creating tests

Constrained random testing

Functional coverage

Execution and timing

Advanced coverage

Advanced randomization

Test plans

Dates

Compact VHDL Testbenches and Verification with OSVVM

Munich

Oct 16, 2024

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Compact VHDL Testbenches and Verification with OSVVM

Stuttgart

Mar 04, 2025

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Available formats for this training

Compact VHDL Testbenches and Verification with OSVVM

3 days

€ 2,300

Workshop

Compact VHDL Testbenches and Verification with OSVVM

3 days

€ 1,900

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Our face-to-face courses start daily at 9 a.m. (CET/CEST) and end at 5 p.m., with two coffee breaks and an extended lunch break. The total course time per day is 6 hours. For online courses, the start is also at 9 a.m. (CET/CEST), but they end at 2:30 p.m.. The total course time per day is 4 and a half hours plus breaks.

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