The IEEE P1076 VHDL Standards Working Group has been busy preparing VHDL-2017. It is almost ready. As we are wrapping up, it is time for the VHDL community to prepare to ballot (aka vote). Balloting on the standard will be done some time between May and July. If you are a member of the VHDL community, it is time to get ready to vote. Voting is done through IEEE. Directions are below. You have unti... »
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 2016.01 Tested On Some may think that OSVVM only works on a particular simulator. Not so. I test OSVVM on the latest release of Aldec ActiveHDL, Aldec RivieraPro, Mentor QuestaSim, and GHDL that I have installed. 2016.01 was tested and passes all regressions on: Aldec ActiveHDL 10.2 Aldec RivieraPro 2015.02 Mentor QuestaSim 10.4d GHDL 0.33 Beyond OSVVM 2016.01 Any minor bugs that are found w... »
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 Presentation in Copenhagen IDA is hosting an OSVVM presentation on 9 November 2015 from 18:30 til 20:30. For details see: http://ida.dk/event/316127 OSVVM and Error Reporting DVCon Europe in Munich, Germany. See: DVCon-Europe Program OSVVM World Tour Training Dates VHDL Testbenches and Verification – OSVVM+ Boot Camp Learn the latest VHDL verification techniques including transaction l... »
Webinar OSVVM for VHDL Testbenches. Thursday June 25, 2015 Open Source VHDL Verification Methodology (OSVVM) is a comprehensive, advanced VHDL verification methodology. Like UVM, OSVVM is a library of free, open-source code (packages). OSVVM uses this library to implement functional coverage, constrained random tests, and Intelligent Coverage random tests with a conciseness, simplicity and capabil... »