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Archive of entries posted on June 2010

Dealing with SystemVerilog constraint solver failures – the Questa way

… Tuesday Technote on Solver Debug, Jijo PS, Srini TeamCVC www.cvcblr.com
Dealing with simple solver failure – looking for really “quick help”. It is a layered SystemVerilog code for a SAN Router. An inherited constraint in a testcase showed randomize() failure. Before you jump to conclusion on the simple nature of the problem – consider that [...]

Vibrant VMM becomes even better at SNUG India 2010

…Reflections from core engineering team of CVC – fresh from SNUG India 2010
Jijo PS, Thirumalai Prabhu, Kumar Shivam, Avit Kori, Praveen & Nikhil – TeamCVC www.cvcblr.com
2010 has been a great year so far for us the verification community in India – with constant news of fresh hirings, new project starts etc. For us at CVC [...]

ISA 2009-11 India Semiconductor Market Update – useful for many

Recently Dr. M M Pallam Raju, Honorable Minister of State for Defense, Government of India,
released ISA-Frost & Sullivan 2009-11 India Semiconductor Market Update. Here are excerpts from his speech during this release:
 
To face tomorrow, the Indian semiconductor industry has to rise to meet the challenges from other Asian countries and aid in developing the [...]

UVM gets better with a complete Reference Flow

If you have all been waiting for the UVM booth @ DAC, here is more to cheer about – a new “UVM reference flow/kit” is being donated (Apache/Limited GPL license) to the UVM community. For a change, we now have “true reference verification kit” that’s openly available to download, try it on any SystemVerilog simulator [...]

Verification pioneers do it again – welcome to Advanced Specman

Srinivasan Venkataraman, Chief Technology Officer, CVC Pvt Ltd (www.cvcblr.com)
TeamSpecman representatives for this Blog interview: Kishore Karnane, Adam Sherer, Hannes Froehlich, and Ariel Melchior
During recent ClubT India session I met the famous “TeamSpecman (www.twitter.com/teamspecman )” to see what’s new about Specman/e and general verification roadmap from them. To my pleasant surprise they offered much more than [...]

Pre-DAC round-up of Verification technologies

Given the business climate and local commitments, it is hard for me to be at DAC. But with keen focus on Verification it is kind of important for CVC (www.cvcblr.com) to share our thoughts on fresh ideas/technologies on Verification that are being demo-ed at DAC-2010 (www.dac.com). Leaving the BIG-3 out (I hope to blog about [...]