Migration service smoothes way to SystemVerilog

Applied Micro Circuits Corp has adopted SystemVerilog for testbench automation using Synopsys' VCS comprehensive RTL verification solution.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp has adopted SystemVerilog for testbench automation using Synopsys' VCS comprehensive RTL verification solution.

Using the reference methodology described in the Verification Methodology Manual (VMM) for SystemVerilog, AMCC has taken advantage of VCS' verification capabilities to rapidly develop advanced, extensible system-level environments based on the widely supported IEEE1800-2005 SystemVerilog industry standard.

To further accelerate deployment of SystemVerilog, AMCC used Synopsys' VCS Native Testbench (NTB) migration service to convert legacy verification components, written in the e language, to the SystemVerilog standard.

"After a detailed evaluation of available verification solutions, we chose to adopt Synopsys' VCS solution with its comprehensive support for industry-standard SystemVerilog testbench automation", said Hugues Deneux, General Manager at AMCC France.

"Our system-level verification environment, operating natively in the VCS solution with SystemVerilog, runs more than three times faster than our legacy environment based on early results".

"This high performance will allow us to run more verification cycles and achieve greater quality than was previously possible".

AMCC and Synopsys developed a sophisticated system-level SystemVerilog verification environment for a complex, 15-million gate data communications switch in fewer than four months-half the time required for previous projects.

Synopsys consultants ported AMCC's existing SPI4 e code to SystemVerilog.

In the meantime, AMCC engineers developed additional new components and the overall environment using SystemVerilog's object-oriented language constructs and constrained-random stimulus capabilities.

AMCC adopted the proven verification methodology and libraries described in the VMM for SystemVerilog and delivered with the VCS solution to further accelerate their ramp-up with SystemVerilog.

The high performance of VCS NTB technology enables AMCC's SystemVerilog environment to run up to three times faster than the legacy environment, allowing more verification cycles to be run with greater confidence in design quality prior to tape out.

"AMCC's success with SystemVerilog and the VCS solution clearly reinforces the trend away from proprietary languages and point tools to integrated solutions based on broadly supported industry standards", said Manoj Gandhi, Senior Vice President and General Manager, Verification Group at Synopsys.

"The VCS NTB migration service enables our customers to accelerate their transition to SystemVerilog, allowing them to more quickly take advantage of the VCS solution's superior verification performance and integration to increase chip quality and improve productivity".

The VCS NTB migration service allows users of e-based testbench tools to easily migrate to Synopsys' industry-leading VCS comprehensive RTL verification solution.

The NTB migration service converts e environments to VCS with SystemVerilog environments and offers accompanying tool, language and methodology training.

Combined with a broad portfolio of Synopsys' DesignWare verification IP and support for Synopsys' Reference Verification Methodology (RVM), the VCS software provides an industry-proven, high-performance RTL verification solution.

The migration service includes: conversion of e verification environments to VCS NTB environments; tools, language and methodology training; custom verification IP development; and eVC migration to the Synopsys DesignWare Verification IP portfolio with support for a large number of protocols, including Amba 3 AXI, Amba 2 AHB/APB, Serial ATA and the PCI, USB and Ethernet families.

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