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Navigating VUnit: A Practical Guide to Modifying Testing Approaches

In the two previous blogs, we introduced you to the world of VUnit, guided you through creating a project from scratch, and demonstrated how to run multi-threaded unit testing of multiple independent tests....

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Development of real-time SDR systems with Aldec HES

As telecommunication technologies evolve there is an on-going drive for the development of high-performance systems for radio communications. Part of that evolution involves implementing components in software functions that had traditionally been implemented in hardware....

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HW/SW Co-Simulation for SoC FPGA designs
Aldec’s Co-Simulation Solution using QEMU and Riviera-PRO

Heterogeneous System on Chip (SoC) devices like the Xilinx Zynq 7000 and Zynq UltraScale+ MPSoC combine a high-performance processing system (PS) with state-of-the-art programmable logic (PL)....

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The Power of PCIe in Performance-based FPGA World
Understanding High speed serial data transfer

In today's world, when the entire computing industry is talking about high-performance and high-speed applications using FPGAs, just what are the factors that can assure such performance and speed?...

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Problems Accessing Registers? – See how UVM RAL can help

As a digital design or verification engineer you know that certain features or configurations of the device can be achieved by programming some registers to set values.For example, a 32-bit register can have several fields within it...

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Verification Effectiveness with Riviera-PRO: SystemVerilog Randomized Layered Testbench
Understanding SystemVerilog Layered Testbench

In this blog, I will discuss randomized layered testbenches used in SystemVerilog. We need to understand why we need it,...

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Do I really need a commercial simulator?
A quick view of the benefits of a commercial simulator

As an Applications Engineer I visit lots of potential customers, or talk to them at trade shows, who are doing FPGA designs but don’t own a commercial simulator. I ask them why that is. Most of the time it is budgetary restrictions. They don’t...

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SystemVerilog Functional Coverage in a Nutshell
Use native SystemVerilog constructs as metrics for verification closure in Riviera-PRO

Let’s say you have a block you need to verify. How do you know that the stimulus you are about to use is exhaustive enough and that you have covered the necessary scenarios/situations to prove it is working correctly?...

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Trace Your Assertions

When I enter the word “assertions” into a search engine I get lots of results, including articles, books, courses, and tools. Nothing unusual there, as assertions have been present in the EDA industry for many years. They considerably increase...

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Plots: A New Way To Analyze Data

Data analysis is often a very time consuming process for a hardware design or verification engineer. We always end up using the waveform viewer which may not be very efficient in giving us a high-level overview of what we’re looking for. Data that is spread across...

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