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NOTE: Examples in this book can be downloaded from SiMantis Inc. website

BACK-COVER QUOTES:

"This detailed, step-by-step guide provides a thorough introduction to SystemVerilog and the Open Verification Methodology (OVM). With many examples and clear descriptions, it should be helpful to anyone involved in IC functional verification."

Richard Goering, Editor-in-Chief , SCDsource

 

 "Dr. Iman brings together all the essential elements to understand the use and application of OVM. Those with limited SystemVerilog knowledge will find Step-by-Step Functional Verification with SystemVerilog and OVM offers a complete introduction to SystemVerilog, and the SystemVerilog-savvy will find this a comprehensive OVM reference. This book has everything design and verification engineers would want to know to apply OVM to their most pressing challenges."

Dennis Brophy , Director of Strategic Business Development , Mentor Graphics

 

"The author of this book is well known in the design community as a leader in the verification space. SystemVerilog has provided a major step in our capability to verify our designs, especially in today’s world of 40 million gate SoCs. The combination has produced a very thorough step by step guide to the latest in verification methodology."

Gary Smith, Chief Analyst, Gary Smith EDA

 

"The Open Verification Methodology (OVM) is one of the most quickly and widely adopted new solutions ever for verifying complex chips. This book walks the reader through the OVM as well as the SystemVerilog language constructs upon which it is built. The breadth of Step-by-Step Functional Verification with SystemVerilog and OVM and its pragmatic approach make it an invaluable resource for both novice and experienced verification engineers."

Ted Vucurevich, CTO, Cadence

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The bestselling assertiveness guide that shows women how to get what they want--reissued with a new preface by the author.

Self-Assertion for Women offers practical advice with realistic sample dialogues and step-by-step exercises showing women how they can:

• learn to communicate clearly and effectively

• protect themselves from misread signals in public, as well as intimate, situations

• maintain professional authority without becoming aggressive

• deal appropriately with sexual harassment

• express positive and negative feelings without anxiety

• set boundaries and assert themselves freely while maintaining loving relationships

• idenify "assertiveness blind spots"

Butler's strategies can be applied by all women in any situation that requires direct, effective, and positive action..
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Functional verification remains one of the single biggest challenges in the development of complex system-on-chip (SoC) devices Despite the introduction of successive new technologies, the gap between design capability and verification confidence continues to widen. The biggest problem is that these diverse new technologies have led to a proliferation of verification point tools, most with their own languages and methodologies.

Fortunately, a solution is at hand. SystemVerilog is a unified language that serves both design and verification engineers by including RTL design constructs, assertions and a rich set of verification constructs. SystemVerilog is an industry standard that is well supported by a wide range of verification tools and platforms. A single language fosters the development of a unified simulation-based verification tool or platform.

Consolidation of point tools into a unified platform and convergence to a unified language enable the development of a unified verification methodology that can be used on a wide range of SoC projects. ARM and Synopsys have worked together to define just such a methodology in the Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog. This book is based upon best verification practices by ARM, Synopsys and their customers.

Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog is a blueprint for verification success, guiding SoC teams in building a reusable verification environment taking full advantage of design-for-verification techniques, constrained-random stimulus generation, coverage-driven verification, formal verification and other advanced technologies to help solve their current and future verification problems.

This book is appropriate for anyone involved in the design or verification of a complex chip or anyone who would like to know more about the capabilities of SystemVerilog. Following the Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog will give SoC development teams and project managers the confidence needed to tape out a complex design, secure in the knowledge that the chip will function correctly in the real world.

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Learn practical tips and techniques for effective and assertive communication. This easy-to-read book is a practical and valuable resource for anyone who wants to improve their relationship with themselves and with others in their life. Assertiveness is an essential skill to enhance both our work and personal lives and is beneficial in overcoming addictions and other compulsive behaviors. What About Me, What Do I Want? includes:

A discussion of the four styles of communication
How we learn and keep ourselves non-assertive
The role of our self-talk and our beliefs in becoming and staying assertive.
Overcoming our obstacles to being assertive, such as worrying about other's feelings, meeting everyone else's expectations, and the fear of appearing selfish.
Practical tips on how to be assertive, including saying "no", dealing with criticism, letting go of control and consistently expressing our feelings, wants and opinions
Several checklists and self-reflection questions to help you to apply this practical information to your own life


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A frivolous argument or inflated claim is often dismissed with the reply, "That's just rhetoric!" But as Scott Crider explains in The Office of Assertion, the classical tradition of rhetoric is both a productive and a liberal art. The ability to employ rhetoric successfully can enable the student, as an effective communicator, to reflect qualities of soul through argument. In that sense, rhetoric is much more than a technical skill. Crider addresses the intelligent university student with respect and humor. This short but serious book is informed by both the ancient rhetorical tradition and recent discoveries concerning the writing process. Though practical, it is not simply a "how-to" manual; though philosophical, it never loses sight of writing itself. Crider combines practical guidance about how to improve an academic essay with reflection on the final purposes --educational, political, and philosophical--of such improvement..
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Highlights include:Teaches the SVA lanaguage using simple easy-to-understand language Teaches SVA semantics by examples Detailed discussion of SVA and assertion-based verificationIdentifying design areas that need assertionsApplying SVA assertions to both simulation- and formal Practical issues with SVA Describing design behavior in SVA Verifying protocol conformity Verifying data integrity Developing an effective functional coverage strategyThe Art of Verification with SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) covers the essential elements of SVA with numerous, detailed examples. The book demonstrates how SVA can be harnessed to implement effective, assertion-based verification. It teaches the SVA language by explaining its usage in the context of practical verification issues.SVA syntax and features are explained in a simple and very easy-to-understand language. The usage of each construct is illustrated with both simple examples and examples drawn from common verification problems. After SVA syntax and semantics are covered, they are used to develop an effective, assertion-based verification strategy for a real-world design..
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This book describes the Property Specification Language PSL, recently standardized as IEEE Std 1850-2005. PSL was specifically developed to fulfill the following requirements:
- easy to learn, write, and read
- concise syntax
- rigorously well-defined formal semantics
- expressive power, permitting the specification for a large class of real world design properties
- known efficient underlying algorithms in simulation, as well as formal verification

This book is primarily targeted to hardware designers and verification engineers who plan to use PSL. It presents PSL using extensive examples in the form of timing diagrams and associated PSL properties. In addition to language elements, it touches on methodological issues in the use of PSL. While primarily oriented to users of PSL for simulation, formal verification is addressed as well. All the basic features of the language are covered, as well as advanced topics such as the use of PSL in multiply-clocked designs and the issue of embedding asynchronous properties in synchronous ones. One chapter is devoted to errors commonly made by begi nners gathered through the authors' many years of experience in using and teaching the language, and will be helpful to both beginners and more experienced users.

The book is accessible to the typical hardware designer and verification engineer with no interest in the theory behind temporal logic. However, the formal semantics are included as an appendix, so that those with such an interest will be able to refer to them.

From the Foreword:
… "Cindy Eisner and Dana Fisman were the two key people who turned IBM Sugar into PSL. Their deep understanding of PSL’s formal semantics was instrumental in both the Accellera and IEEE PSL standardization efforts. Cindy and Dana have now created the most authoritative source for information about PSL, designed to introduce the language incrementally in an easily understood fashion. A Practical Introduction to PSL provides a solid foundation for getting started with PSL today."

Harry Foster - Erich Marschner

Mentor Graphics Corporation Cadence Design Systems

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SystemVerilog Assertions Handbook is a follow-up book to Using PSL/Sugar for Formal and Dynamic Verification 2nd Edition. It focuses on the assertions aspect of SystemVerilog, along with an explanation of the language concepts along with many examples to demonstrate how SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) can be effectively used in an Assertion-Based Verification methodology to verify designs written in HDLs like SystemVerilog, Verilog, or VHDL. The integration of assertions in SystemVerilog proves very beneficial for the definition of a verification environment because SystemVerilog is a modern language with powerful and advanced constructs like interfaces, queues, associative array, semaphores, system functions, classes, methods, packages, safe pointers, etc. This book presents different classes of designs, and demonstrates how SystemVerilog Assertions are used in the design process from requirements document, verification plan, design and verification using simulation and formal verification. Many of the examples use the advanced features of SystemVerilog including packages, interfaces, types, and binding. In addition, synthesizable RTL SystemVerilog code examples were synthesized to demonstrated feasibility. Other features provided in this book are a dictionary of English to SystemVerilog Assertions examples, guidelines in the use of SystemVerilog Assertions, and a quick reference guide of the SystemVerilog Assertions syntax. This book represents the collaboration of three authors who are experts in system engineering, architecture, and design and verification with hardware description languages (HDLs) and hardware verification languages (HVLs), along with experience in authoring books, thus bringing more synergism to this SystemVerilog Assertions Handbook..
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