20–23 May 2025
CERN
Europe/Zurich timezone
We published some of the talk schedule. Timetable is still **preliminary**, times are subject to change.

Why Your Team Should be using VHDL + OSVVM for Verification

23 May 2025, 10:55
40m
500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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HDL verification and simulation tools Verification

Speaker

Jim Lewis (SynthWorks)

Description

Developing and deploying a verification methodology is costly and time consuming. Going without one is even more costly due to bugs escaping into production hardware systems.

Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM) provides the VHDL community with verification capabilities that rival any other verification methodology – including SystemVerilog + UVM. Yet OSVVM is easier as it allows any VHDL engineer to write VHDL testbenches, test cases, and verification components for both simple unit/RTL level tests and complex, randomized full chip or system level tests.

With OSVVM you get transaction-based testing, a verification framework, verification components, self-checking tests, messaging handling, error tracking, requirements tracking, constrained random testing, scoreboards, functional coverage, co-simulation with software, test automation, scripts, and a comprehensive set of test reports.

This presentation examines the benefits of using OSVVM on your projects.

Talk's Q&A During the talk
Talk duration 30'+12' (very long, not recommended)
Will you be able to present in person? Yes

Author

Jim Lewis (SynthWorks)

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