Welcome to Course - Introduction
- Introduction and Overview
- Introduction to SOC and VLSI design flows
- Course Resources
- Testing Awareness before we start
Verification Concepts Explained
- Verification - What, Why and How ?
- Verification - Planning, Approaches, Metrics
- Verification Methodologies - Simulation, Formal, Assertions
- Directed vs Constrained Random Verification - Coverage
- Other Trends - HW+SW Verification, Emulation
- Test your Verification Concepts now
Introduction to System Verilog Language
- History and Language usage overview
- Language Constructs - Data types and Operators
- Language Constructs - Loops and Control Flows
- Tasks and Functions
- Arrays and Queues
- Test Your System Verilog Language Basics now
Basic SV TB - Connecting to your design
- Interfaces
- Clocking Blocks
- Program Blocks
- Direct Programming Interface (DPI)
- Test - How much more you know now !
SV - OOP concepts and Randomization
- Basic OOP Concepts
- System Verilog Classes Explained
- Virtual Interfaces
- Random Constraints and usages - Part 1
- Random Constraints - Part 2
- Test - What have you learned more now ?
Threads and Inter Process Communication
- Processes and Threads in System Verilog
- System Verilog Mailboxes
- Synchronization - Events and Semaphores
- Test your knowledge now on Advanced System Verilog
Project Assignment - Building a Testbench for Ethernet Switch
- Exercise 1: Case Study on a Design to be verified
- Exercise 2: Coding exercise to build a Design to be Verified OR Review example
- Exercise 3: Coding Interfaces and Clocking Blocks to connect
- Exercise 4: Building Class based Testbench components
- Exercise 5: Connecting all TB components using mailboxes
- Exercise 6: Build the top TB with DUT, compile and simulate
Introduction to Verification Methodologies
- Standard Verification Methodologies - Need and evolution
- Introduction to concept of OVM and UVM
Course Wrapup and Summary
- Summary and learnings and future topics
- Course Improvement Survey
- Final Test - Are you ready for a Verification Job now?
