liveasic.com Blog » HVL http://liveasic.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 11 Nov 2009 14:38:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 System Verilog, An intro to the tutorials in store http://liveasic.com/blog/2009/10/19/system-verilog-an-intro-to-the-tutorials-in-store/ http://liveasic.com/blog/2009/10/19/system-verilog-an-intro-to-the-tutorials-in-store/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 11:57:23 +0000 lasic http://liveasic.com/blog/?p=15 System Verilog is the world’s first HDVL (Hardware Design Verification Language).
The other languages like ‘e’ and ‘Vera’ have been HVLs (Hardware Verification Languages.

System Verilog has features for

  • RTL Design
    
  • Assertions
    
  • Verification

System Verilog has evolved borrowing features and aspects from

  • Verilog
  • Superlog
  • VHDL
  • PSL (Property Specification Language)
    
  • C
    
  • Vera

 
In the series of tutorials that we plan to publish, we will see the features of System Verilog including but not limited to
   

  • Data Types
    
  • Enum, struct, union, typedef
    
  • Packed and unpacked arrays/structs
    
  • Packages
    
  • Multidimensional Arrays
    
  • Strings
    
  • Dynamic Arrays
    
  • Associative Arrays
  • Classes with single inheritance
    
  • Constraints
    

Control and Procedural Statements
       

  1. if, case
        
  2. for, foreach, while, do while, 
  3. repeat, forever
        
  4. break, continue, return
    
  • Functions and Procedures
    
  • Fork, suspend, kill, wait, disable
    
  • DPI (Direct Programming Interface)
    
  • always_ff
    always_latch
    always_comb
    
  • Interfaces, Virtual Interaces, Advanced interfaces
    
  • Semaphore, Mailbox, Enhanced Events
  • Queues, Linked List
    
  • Constraint Randomization
    
  • Functional Coverage (covergroups, coverpoints)

We will go into detailed examples discussing all these features in the coming days. Happy Blogging.

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