Intended as a unified language supporting both design and verification, SystemVerilog has, at least initially, taken off as a verification vehicle. In its plain-vanilla form, the Verilog hardware ...

Most of the synthesizable subset is in the previous SystemVerilog 3.0, although there are a few additional extensions in SystemVerilog 3.1, Berman noted. Beyond that, Berman said, Cadence will ...

The SystemVerilog language, or IEEE Std 1800-2005, was conceived to address this issue. It’s chock-full of extensions and enhancements that are intended to tackle the verification bottleneck.

SystemVerilog also provides the cross construct to measure cross-coverage between two coverage points. This feature allows the tracking of combinations of coverage metrics. For example, Listing 3 ...

SystemVerilog also allows task arguments to be references (ref arguments). No copy is made, and a value can be passed in and a changed value can be returned. Ref arguments are pass-by-reference. Ref ...

SystemVerilog supports templates for generic code writing using parameterized classes. Here we’re going to describe some of the design patterns in the code that make up the UVM base class library.