Assertion autumn
This autumn InnoFour has scheduled a number of events aimed at helping you to adopt Assertion Based Verification (ABV). If you are a design- or verification-engineer who doesn’t have access to ABV technology or if you do have ModelSim DE or Questa but haven’t adopted ABV yet, these events could become a valuable next step in your verification strategy providing you all necessary means such as licenses, webinars, tutorials and training.
Assertion Autumn Agenda
- On the 12th and 13th of September we kicked-off assertion autumn during the FPGA World seminars in Stockholm and Copenhagen where many of you have met us and signed up for this series of events.
- Learn more on Assertions during a one hour webinar that was held on Thursday 22 sep 2011 and is now available as an On-Demand web seminar. The title of the webinar is: “ModelSim to Questa Core: Adopting Assertion-Based Verification to Improve Your FPGA Debug and Design Quality”.
- The next step can be done anytime and is aimed at getting some hands-on experience with assertions. We have therefore provided 3 tutorials that will give you a quick hands-on introduction to assertions.
If you already have access to a ModelSim DE or Questa license, then you can simply run these the appropriate language tutorial with your existing verification tool. If you would like to receive an evaluation license for this purpose, then please contact us (AssertionAutumn@innofour.com) with your request.
- If you would like to further exploit the possibilities of using assertions to get to a more advanced level of design verification, then the Assertion-Based Verification section of the free online Verification Academy will give you a wealth of other tutorials and documents on implementing assertion. The only thing you need to do in order to access this material is to register yourself at the Academy via this link.
- Once you have learned how valuable assertions could be to improve your current verification methodology, it is time to start learning how to write your own assertions. A good start would be the Advanced Verification Jumpstart, a training aimed ad quickly learning how to write assertions in SystemVerilog. The training is currently planned in Almelo NL (4 nov), Copenhagen DK (8 nov), Stockholm SE (9 nov) and Oslo NO (10 nov).
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