Expanding the Verification Academy!
The philosophy behind our Verification Academy is to provide a comprehensive resource for evolving and maturing your functional verification process skills. We believe that each step an organization takes in evolving verification skills should have measurable results and benefits. With that in mind, I am excited to announce two new modules we are adding to the Verification Academy: UVM Express and Advanced UVM.
Figure 1. Screen shot for the Verification Academy UVM Epxress module.
For some verification teams, the hurdle to implement a UVM-based verification environment is simply getting started. To eliminate this hurdle, Mentor Graphics has just introduced UVM Express, which is a suggested systematic way to progressively adopt a UVM methodology. The beauty of this approach is that UVM Express makes getting started easy and intuitive, and provides measurable productivity gains to a broader scope of design projects, regardless of their past experience and existing skills with UVM.
Our new UVM Express module consists of four sessions for evolving UVM capability. It is not necessary for a project to implement all the recommendations from the four sessions to receive measurable benefits. For example, a project might decide to only adopt the recommendations presented in the first session in the UVM Express module, and then at some future point, decide to evolve their skills further by adopting the recommendations from the second session.
In addition to the UVM Express module, we have released an Advanced UVM module. This module consists of 10 sessions and provides over three hours of material. In this module, we build on the concepts originally covered in our Basic UVM Module to take your UVM understanding to the next level. You will learn how to build tests and verification environments, use the factory and configuration database to customize your verification IP, and create reusable stimulus sequences, including those for multi-layer protocols. We will also introduce the UVM Register layer, showing you how to create a register model and how to write and reuse register-level tests.
We are excited to now offer you three UVM modules within the Verification Academy: Basic UVM, Advanced UVM, and UVM Express. And as always, I welcome your feedback and suggestions.
For more information, visit http://www.verificationacademy.com/.
