Five Vital Steps to a Robust Testbench with DesignWare Verification IP and Reference Verification Methodology (RVM)

This paper shows how to start performing constrained random verification quickly and easily with DesignWare VIP and RVM. A few benefits of DesignWare VIP with RVM are described here, followed by an introduction to RVM. This supplies a background for the discussion of the five initial steps to coding a complete constrained random testbench. The concepts and techniques used in this paper are explained and demonstrated, and code examples are provided to show real application of the techniques.

This paper is mainly intended for verification engineers who want to use the DesignWare VIP models and RVM. Readers who are new to RVM can use this as a quick start. For those already familiar with RVM, the DesignWare VIP usage examples show how the RVM methodology is applied when using DesignWare VIP. Working knowledge of OpenVera and object-oriented programming is assumed.