Overview
In this hands-on workshop, you will learn how to develop a test environment structure, which can implement any testcase with minimal modification. Within this environment structure, you will develop stimulus factories, check and coverage callbacks, message loggers, transactor managers, and data flow managers. Once the environment has been created, you will learn how to easily add extensions for more test cases.

After completing the course, you should have developed the skills to write a coverage-driven random stimulus based testbench that is robust, re-useable and easy to maintain.

• Develop a test environment class
• Implement and manage message loggers for printing to terminal or file
• Build a random stimulus generation factory
• Build and manage stimulus transaction channels
• Build and manage stimulus transactors
• Implement checkers using callback methods
• Implement functional coverage using callback methods

Audience Profile
Design or Verification engineers who develop OpenVera testbenches using the Verification Methodology Manual based RVM classes

Prerequisites
To benefit the most from the material presented in this workshop, students should: Have taken the VERA 1 workshop OR Possess equivalent knowledge with VERA or VCS ntb including:

• Generating OpenVera testbench templates
• Creating/Using OpenVera Virtual Ports
• Developing testbench components as OOP classes
• Creating Coverage Group for functional coverage

Course Outline

Day 1

• Introduction
• RVM Environment
• Message Service
• Data Model
• Stimulus Generator/Factory
  

Day 2

• Scoreboard & Coverage using callbacks
• Drive/Receive Transactors
• Data Flow Control
• Scenario Generator
• Summary

• VERA 2005.12
• VCS 2006.06