OVM

The Open Verification Methodology (OVM) is an advanced verification standard developed by Cadence and Mentor Graphics that promotes best-in-class verification solutions supported by a full object-oriented environment. This delivers key verification capability and high-levels of Verification IP (VIP) reusability through the use Open Verification Components (OVCs)

Duolog is an OVM Partner and recognises the immense benefits that a standard such as OVM can bring to the IP and SoC verification process. Duolog, as an EDA integration-solution provider, aims to ensure the enabling of OVM within chip verification flows. For instance Duolog provides Bitwise; a comprehensive solution for managing the HW/SW interface and has explicit support for a wide range of register implementations including ID registers, modal behaviour, access types, collections and arrays of registers, memories etc., as well as OVM required information and can auto-generate the complete OVM register package.

Additionally Duolog has the following highlights regarding OVM:

• Duolog offers an intuitive high-level integration platform that can generate design, verification and software views from IP to chip-level
• Rapid development of OVM infrastructure including auto-generation of DUT Wrappers, new OVCs, off-the-shelf OVCs, register packages and corresponding testcases and the OVM infrastructure
• Full support for OVM register package through Bitwise. Explicit support for a wide range of register implementations including ID registers, modal behaviour, access types, collections and arrays of registers, memories etc., as well as OVM required information
• Less time spent debugging and fixing bugs as Socrates ensures correct-by-construction and synchronisation between design, verification and software views removes interpretation, translation and synchronisation bugs
• Support of IP-XACT to allow streamlining between IP metadata and OVM environments

Duolog also provides turnkey IP verification services which utilize both our EDA tools and our SystemVerilog/OVM expertise to deliver high-value verification solutions.

Click below to view some of our collateral on OVM

• Generating the OVM register package
• Duolog and OVM
• OVM World Website

As all of the tools in the Socrates tool suite support IP-XACT, it is possible to streamline IP-XACT to OVM Flows.