SystemVerilog for Design and Verification | Session 2: Classes, Randomisation and Coverage

SystemVerilog for Design and Verification | Session 2: Classes, Randomisation and Coverage

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This session explores how classes, constraints and functional coverage help turn a directed testbench into one that can investigate corner cases.

You will cover common Verilog and SystemVerilog coding issues, object-oriented programming, constrained randomisation, polymorphism, verification interfaces and coverage modelling.

The live demonstrations use classes, random stimulus and polymorphism to exercise an ALU, then add covergroups and randomised classes to a FIFO testbench to measure the behaviour reached by the stimulus.

This session is part of a 3-session professional training programme:

• Session 1 — Introduction to SystemVerilog

• Session 2 — Classes, Randomisation and Coverage

• Session 3 — Assertions, DPI and Reuse

REGISTRATION FOR ALL 3 SESSIONS IS 60$ ONLY.

What You Will Learn

• Verilog and SystemVerilog coding issues that can cause bugs

• Classes and object-oriented programming

• rand and randc with constraint blocks

• Polymorphism and virtual methods

• Class-based random stimulus

• Interfaces for verification

• Functional coverage using covergroups and coverpoints

• Bins and crosses

• Measuring which scenarios are reached by randomised stimulus

Why This Matters

Directed tests may miss important corner cases. Classes, constrained randomisation and functional coverage provide a structured approach to generating varied stimulus and measuring which scenarios have been exercised.

This session demonstrates how these techniques can be applied to familiar ALU and FIFO designs.

Ideal For

• RTL designers moving from Verilog

• Design verification engineers

• Graduates entering verification

• Engineers developing their SystemVerilog testbench skills

Working knowledge of Verilog and digital design is required. Prior SystemVerilog experience is not required for the programme.

Training Format

• 2-hour live online training session

• Concise teaching blocks

• Two live demonstrations using ALU and FIFO designs

• ALU verification using classes, random stimulus and polymorphism

• FIFO coverage using covergroups and randomised classes

• Two five-minute quizzes

• Ten-minute break

• Five-minute closing Q&A

This session is Session 2 of the 3-session SystemVerilog for Design and Verification Programme.