SystemVerilog: Transition coverage of different object types using cross
Tudor timisescu also known as the verification gentleman in verification community posted this question on twitter. His question was, can we create transition coverage using…
SystemVerilog : Cross coverage between two different covergroups
Question: Does SystemVerilog support cross coverage between two different covergroups? This was one of the question raised on verification academy. Following is the code snippet…
Specification to Functional coverage generation
Introduction (Note: As this is a long article, you can download it in pdf format along with USB Power delivery case study. Don’t worry, we…
When to write to functional coverage plan?
The question is at what phase of the verification project should one be writing the functional coverage plan? Please note that, this question never comes up…
Functional coverage planning: Why we miss critical items?
World of dynamic simulation based functional verification is not real. Verification architects abstract reality to create the virtual worlds for design under test (DUT) in…
Functional coverage for Micro-architecture – Why?
Functional coverage plan in order to be effective has to take into consideration two specifications. They are: Requirements specifications Micro-architecture implementation specifications In principle verification…
PCI Express PIPE interface functional coverage
What started off, as “PHY Interface for the PCI Express Architecture” was soon promoted to “PHY interface for the PCI Express, SATA and USB3.1 and…
Pentium FDIV bug and curious engineer
According to wikipedia Pentium FDIV bug affects the floating point unit(FPU) of the early intel Pentium processors. Because of this bug incorrect floating point results…
Functional coverage – Value proposition
Functional coverage complements the code coverage by addressing its inherent limitations. This blog will help you understand what is the key value proposition of the…
Functional coverage debt
We have heard technical debt but what is this functional coverage debt? It’s on the same lines as technical debt but more specific to functional…