Portable Stimulus and UVM
Taking the Pain out of UVM
Leveraging Portable Stimulus to Eliminate Classic UVM Issues
The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) has proven to be highly effective in establishing common testbench coding methods, enabling reuse and improving the comprehension of tests. However, the methodology still has limitations that particularly impact complex block verification.
The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) allows for many of these limitations to be eliminated, while still leveraging existing testbenches, thereby not wasting legacy effort. PSS, through the Breker tools, enables a white-box approach to test authoring, allows complex multi-threaded, synchronized sequences to be generated from single scenarios, automatically provides scoreboard checks and coverage models, and generally improves test reuse and verification use models. This paper demonstrates how PSS may be leveraged in UVM environments to realize these and other advantages.
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