Verification Methodologies OVM and UVM - Introduction


UVM: Architecture and TestBench Coding

  • Verification methodology is a set of coding practice adopted by a group of people or a group of company to develop more reusable and more reliable testbench codes.
  • UVM History:

FIG: History of Verification methodologies.
    • e Reuse Methodology (2002) - eRM
    • Universal Reuse Methodology (2006) - URM
    • Advanced Verification Methodology (2004) - AVM [Mentor Graphics]
    • Open Verification Methodology (2008) - OVM [Mentor Graphics & Cadence]
    • Universal Verification Methodology (2011) - UVM [Most recent methodology available by combining OVM & VMM maintained by Accellera - consortium of tools companies like Mentor Graphics, Synopsys, and Cadence]
    • Reuse Verification Methodology - RVM
    • Verification Methodology Manual (2004) - VMM [Combined project by Synopsys and arm]
  • UVM is a library of Classes developed in System Verilog HDL.
  • Its primary purpose is to define a common, reusable architecture for TestBench components.
  • Advantage: Vertical and Horizontal reusability (across unit/cluster/SoC & across projects).
    • Vertical reusability: same components can be used across same unit/cluster and in the final SoC
    • Horizontal reusability: can be used across multiple projects.
  • UVM and OVM are similar in architecture. 

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