Aldec Design and Verification Blog

Verification is the cornerstone of digital design, ensuring high reliability and functional correctness of FPGA and SoC designs. By integrating Azure’s scalable cloud computing, the open-source unit testing capabilities of VUnit, and the high-performance simulation engine of Riviera-PRO,...

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....

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....

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)....

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?...

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...

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

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...

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?...

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...