Author: Keisuke Shimizu

Verification expert with exceptional understanding of SystemVerilog and UVM/VMM as a result of more than 13 years of experience in the design verification field. Specializes in providing highly reusable constrained-random verification architecture and implementation to uncover hard-to-find design bugs, with a focus on coverage metrics. Passion for pursuing new verification technology: an early adopter of VMM (2006). Experience with a wide-range of verification targets from PHY to a reconfigurable array processor. Author of technical blog series "UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers." Creator of an open-source SystemVerilog generic library to share deep verification knowledge.

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 21. TLM 1 Example

April 6, 2014April 3, 2016 Keisuke Shimizu

In the previous post, we looked at an overview of the TLM 1 classes. This post will give you a sample code using some of the TLM 1 classes.

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 20. TLM 1

April 6, 2014June 22, 2016 Keisuke Shimizu

UVM supports ports (TLM 1) and sockets (TLM 2) as transaction-level interfaces. This post will explain TLM 1.

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 19. Analysis FIFO

February 11, 2014December 27, 2015 Keisuke Shimizu

Last Updated: February 14, 2015 This post will explain how to use analysis FIFOs.

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 18. Configuration Database Revisited

December 28, 2013December 27, 2015 Keisuke Shimizu

Last updated: December 20, 2015 In the post, Configurations, we looked at the configuration flow of the jelly bean verification. We also looked at the behind the scenes of the configuration flow in the post, Configuration Database. This post will Read More …

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 17. Register Read Demystified

September 28, 2013April 3, 2016 Keisuke Shimizu

Last Updated: December 28, 2013 In the last post, Register Access Methods, we looked at the primary methods of RAL and showed how they worked. This post will further focus on the read() method and show how the method actually Read More …

UVM Tutorial for Candy Lovers – 16. Register Access Methods

February 1, 2013April 3, 2016 Keisuke Shimizu

Last Updated on April 11, 2014 The register abstraction layer (RAL) of UVM provides several methods to access registers. This post will explain how the register-access methods work.