Mentor offers two versions of the tool: Questa SystemVerilog for $28,000 (perpetual) and Quasta AFV (Advanced Functional Verification) for $42,000 (perpetual). Questa SystemVerilog simulates ...

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...

SystemVerilog supports built-in C-language data types, providing a clear translation to and from C to create algorithmic models. It also gives designers an abstract syntax with which to create ...

However, the SystemVerilog 2009 specification incorporates both languages, so modern Verilog is SystemVerilog and vice versa. While many new features are aimed at verification, there is something ...

For SystemVerilog devotees, the latest good news is the commercial availability of a parser for the language.

In an EDA Views column posted to EEdesign April 4, 2003, Mitch Weaver of Cadence Design Systems wrote of the need to extend the Verilog standard to support ever-increasing design sizes. Mr. Weaver ...

FIFO (First In First Out) is a buffer that stores data in a way that data stored first comes out of the buffer first. Asynchronous FIFO is most widely used in the System-on-Chip (SoC) designs for ...

It was supposed to be a new standard for verification, but System Verilog is having trouble getting out of the standards committee. Sources say the committee process at Accellera has become deeply ...