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... »