2023 brought lots of changes. I started traveling again (a little bit). This was my first travels since the start of COVID. I presented papers on OSVVM at SEFUW (ESA’s Space FPGA Users Workshop), MAPLD (NASA’s Military and Aerospace Programmable Logic Devices), FPGA Conference Europe (in Munich), and at Verification Futures (both in Reading UK and Austin TX). OSVVM had 5 updates during... »
OSVVM release 2023.07 updates OSVVM’s Requirement Tracking (aka Specification Tracking) capability so that HTML and CSV based merged requirements reports are produced automatically. Requirements Tracking (Part 1) started with the 2020.08 release. In the 2020.08 release, each test could write out a CSV requirements report. The expectation was that external requirements tools imported these and merg... »
Summary of 2023.07 Changes AlertLogPkg: Added WriteRequirementsYaml to write requirements for a test case into a YAML file ReportPkg: In EndOfTestReports if GotRequirements it calls WriteRequirementsYaml. Hence saving requirements is automatic. Scripts: For each test suite, merges the requirements yaml files for each test case and produces a test suite requirements HTML Scripts: For each bu... »
It has been a busy summer for OSVVM. With the world working out of home offices, all of our training has shifted to on-line – which fortunately we started doing 7+ years ago. Not having to travel has freed up additional time that I have devoted to OSVVM development. Updates started with adding PASSED counts to the AlertLog data structure in 2020.05. AXI Full verification components (ma... »