2016.11a is a minor release. The only file that changed is VendorCovApiPkg_Aldec.vhd. There was a bug in one of the attributes that has been fixed and verified. VendorCovApiPKg simplifies the connection between OSVVM functional coverage a vendor’s internal functional coverage database. The operation of the API is simple. Within OSVVM, all calls to create a functional coverage model (AddBins ... »
Webinar From OSVVM to UCIS Database. Thursday December 15, 2016 When a simulator records functional coverage internally, it gains the ability to correlate the functional coverage with its verification planning tools and share that information with safety critical tools. The 2016.11 release of Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM) adds an API to record OSVVM Functional Coverage directly... »
2016.11a is a minor release. The only file that changed is VendorCovApiPkg_Aldec.vhd. There was a bug in one of the attributes that has been fixed and verified. VendorCovApiPKg simplifies the connection between OSVVM functional coverage a vendor’s internal functional coverage database. The operation of the API is simple. Within OSVVM, all calls to create a functional coverage model (AddBins ... »
Yesterday myself and numerous others (perhaps all) received an email from Esther and Love via the OSVVM website. The email was generated by an account that they had. When I see something like this, I delete the account – which is exactly what I did yesterday. I suspect these accounts were created using the normal channel of enrollment and not a hack (as they did nothing else damaging). We ar... »
OSVVM on GitHub OSVVM is now on GitHub. You can find releases there. I will be putting bug patches there first before formally releasing them on OSVVM.org. Long term I also plan on putting tool specific branches as needed (such as for Cadence). https://github.com/JimLewis/OSVVM OSVVM Training in Germany In conjunction with PLC2, we will be offering OSVVM training in Germany. See the matrix below f... »
2016.01 Fixed a bug in AlertLogPkg that kept more than 32 AlertLogIDs from being used. Updated CoveragePkg, MemoryPkg, and TextUtilPkg for GHDL (function purity and indexing objects of type line) 2015.06 (released previously, but not announced) Added MemoryPkg to easily implement sparse data structures used in memory models. In AlertLogPkg, added AffirmIf, added PASSED log level. In CoveragePkg, i... »
OSVVM 2015.03 is a minor release that updates only AlertLogPkg. All other packages remain unchanged. In AlertLogPkg, added AlertIfEqual, AlertIfNotEqual, and AlertIfDiff (file). Added ReadLogEnables to initialize LogEnables from a file. Added ReportNonZeroAlerts. Added PathTail to extract an instance name from MyEntity’PathName. Added ReportLogEnables and GetAlertLogName. See AlertLogPkg_Use... »
OSVVM 2015.01 is a major release that introduces AlertLogPkg. AlertLogPkg adds Alert and verbosity control procedures that are a powerful replacement for assert statements. All OSVVM packages have replaced asserts with alerts. VHDL assert statements have a limited form of an alert and verbosity control. Through a simulator, you can set an assertion level that will stop a simulation. Through a simu... »
Over the summer I have been working on the next set of revisions for OSVVM. One of the new features allows a name to be specified for each bin. The name is specified in calls to AddBins and AddCross. If a name is present, calls to WriteBin will print it. One motivation for a bin name is to correlate a requirement with it being tested (PASSED) or not tested (FAILED). Hence the output of WriteBin is... »
OSVVM release 2014.01 is now available at OSVVM Downloads. Note that starting with this release, I have separated the examples from the release of the library. Message handling is now handled by separate package, MessagePkg. MessagePkg must be compiled before CoveragePkg. Suggested compile order: MessagePkg.vhd SortListPkg_int.vhd RandomBasePkg.vhd RandomPkg.vhd CoveragePkg.vhd What’s new in... »