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WELCOME TO EASIER UVM!

Easier UVM consists of the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines and the Easier UVM Code Generator. Easier UVM was created by Doulos as a service to the UVM community and is freely available from this website. You may use the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines as they are, merge them into your own company-specific UVM coding guidelines, or merely borrow some of the ideas. The Easier UVM Code Generator is a Perl script provided under the Apache 2.0 license (see the FAQ). You can also run the code generator from the EDA Playground website (see this video), and there is an Easier UVM Google Group where you can get help. There is extensive documentation on Easier UVM itself, and a series of video tutorials that teach UVM by taking advantage of Easier UVM and EDA Playground - see the links at the bottom of this and every Easier UVM webpage.

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Easier UVM Coding Guidelines

• Introduction to the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines
• Summary of the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines
• Detailed Explanation of the Easier UVM Coding Guidelines
• Easier UVM Glossary
• Easier UVM Coding Guidelines - Download

Easier UVM - Deeper Explanations

• Coverage-Driven Verification Methodology
• Requests, Responses, Layered Protocols and Layered Agents
• How to Access a Parameterized SystemVerilog Interface from UVM

Easier UVM Code Generator

• Easier UVM Code Generator - Tutorial Part 1: Getting Started
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Tutorial Part 2: Adding User-Defined Code
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Tutorial Part 3: Adding the Register Layer
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Tutorial Part 4: Hierarchical Verification Environments
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Tutorial Part 5: Split Transactors
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
• Easier UVM Code Generator - Reference Guide

Easier UVM Video Tutorial

• Introducing Easier UVM
• Easier UVM - The Big Picture
• Key Concepts of the Easier UVM Code Generator
• Running Easier UVM in EDA Playground
• Easier UVM - Components and Phases
• Easier UVM - Configuration
• TLM Connections in UVM
• Easier UVM - Transaction Classes
• Easier UVM - Sequences
• Easier UVM - Tests
• Easier UVM - Reporting
• Easier UVM - Register Layer
• Easier UVM - Parameterized Interfaces
• Easier UVM - Scoreboards
• The Finer Points of UVM Sequences (Recorded Webinar)
• UVM Run-Time Phasing (Recorded Webinar)
• A YouTube playlist with all the above videos and more

Easier UVM Paper and Poster

• Easier UVM - Coding Guidelines and Code Generation - as presented at DVCon 2014

Easier UVM Examples Ready-to-Run on EDA Playground

• Minimal example with driver
• Minimal example with coverage in a subscriber as well as driver and monitor.
• Minimal example with register sequence and register block
• Example with four interfaces/agents, two of which use a register model.
• Minimal example with dual-top modules and split transactors
• Minimal example showing a UVM sequence getting information from the config database
• Minimal example showing features of objections and the command line processor
• Minimal example showing the reporting features of UVM.
• Example that drops an objection when coverage exceeds some threshold
• Example that sends a response transaction from the driver back to the uvm_reg_adapter
• Example that uses a frontdoor sequence to pass a response object back to the register sequence that called read/write
• Example of a parameterized interface generated from an Easier UVM interface template file
• Example that pulls in a user-defined parameterized interface
• Example of a reference model with the Syosil scoreboard

 

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