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SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage

Guide to Language, Methodology and Applications

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Authors:
  1. Ashok B. Mehta

    1. Los Gatos, USA

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  • in its entirety the latest IEEE-1800 2012 LRM syntax and semantics
  • both SystemVerilog Assertions and SystemVerilog Functional Coverage language
  • and methodologies
  • Provides practical examples of the what, how and why of Assertion Based Verification and Functional Coverage methodologies
  • Explains each concept in a step-by-step fashion and applies it to a practical real life example
  • Includes 6 practical LABs that enable readers to put in practice the concepts explained in the book
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxxv
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-8

  3. SystemVerilog Assertions

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    Pages 9-29

  4. Immediate Assertions

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    Pages 31-34

  5. Concurrent Assertions—Basics (Sequence, Property, Assert)

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    Pages 35-65

  6. Sampled Value Functions $rose, $fell, $stable, $past

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    Pages 67-79

  7. Operators

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    Pages 81-145

  8. System Functions and Tasks

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    Pages 147-153

  9. Multiple Clocks

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    Pages 155-166

  10. Local Variables

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    Pages 167-180

  11. Recursive Property

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    Pages 181-186

  12. Detecting and Using Endpoint of a Sequence

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    Pages 187-199

  13. ‘expect’

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    Pages 201-203

  14. ‘assume’ and Formal (Static Functional) Verification

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    Pages 205-206

  15. Very Important Topics and Applications

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    Pages 207-246

  16. Asynchronous Assertions!!!

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    Pages 247-250

  17. IEEE-1800-2009/2012 Features

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    Pages 251-303

  18. SystemVerilog Assertions LABs

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    Pages 305-341

  19. SystemVerilog Assertions—LAB Answers

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    Pages 343-360

  20. Functional Coverage

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    Pages 361-366
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About this book

This book provides a hands-on, application-oriented guide to the language and methodology of both SystemVerilog Assertions and SystemVerilog Functional Coverage. Readers will benefit from the step-by-step approach to functional hardware verification using SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage, which will enable them to uncover hidden and hard to find bugs, point directly to the source of the bug, provide for a clean and easy way to model complex timing checks and objectively answer the question ‘have we functionally verified everything’. Written by a professional end-user of ASIC/SoC/CPU and FPGA design and Verification, this book explains each concept with easy to understand examples, simulation logs and applications derived from real projects. Readers will be empowered to tackle the modeling of complex checkers for functional verification, thereby drastically reducing their time to design and debug. 

This updated second edition addresses the latest functional set released in IEEE-1800 (2012) LRM, including numerous additional operators and features. Additionally, many of the Concurrent Assertions/Operators explanations are enhanced, with the addition of more examples and figures.

·         Covers in its entirety the latest IEEE-1800 2012 LRM syntax and semantics;

·         Covers both SystemVerilog Assertions and SystemVerilog Functional Coverage language and methodologies;

·         Provides practical examples of the what, how and why of Assertion Based Verification and Functional Coverage methodologies;

·         Explains each concept in a step-by-step fashion and applies it to a practical real life example;

·         Includes 6 practical LABs that enable readers to put in practice the concepts explained in the book.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Los Gatos, USA

    Ashok B. Mehta

About the author

Ashok Mehta has been working in the ASIC/SoC design and verification field for over 20 years. He started his career at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) working first as a CPU design engineer, moving on to hardware design verification of the VAX11-785 CPU design. He then worked at Data General, Intel (first Pentium design team) and after a route of a couple of startups, worked at Applied Micro and TSMC. He was a very early adopter of Verilog and participated in Verilog, VHDL, iHDL (Intel HDL) and SDF (standard delay format) technical subcommittees. He has also been a proponent of ESL (Electronic System Level) designs and at TSMC he released two industry standard Reference Flows that take designs from ESL to RTL while preserving the verification environment for reuse from ESL to RTL. Lately, he has been involved with 3DIC design verification challenges at TSMC which is where SystemVerilog Assertions played an instrumental role in stacked die SoC design verification.

Ashok earned an MSEE from University of Missouri. He holds 13 U.S. Patents in the field of SoC and 3DIC design verification. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage

  • Book Subtitle: Guide to Language, Methodology and Applications

  • Authors: Ashok B. Mehta

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-30539-4

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-80833-8Published: 22 April 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-30539-4Published: 11 May 2016

  • Edition Number: 2

  • Number of Pages: XXXV, 406

  • Number of Illustrations: 238 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation, Processor Architectures

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