dennisb Posted September 5, 2012 Report Share Posted September 5, 2012 September 13, 2012 Online Mentor Graphics Seminar 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM US/Pacific Convert to Local Time Register Overview Many hardware blocks are designed to interact with software using memory mapped registers. In the final implementation, the system level software, running on a CPU, reads and writes these registers via a bus interface on the hardware block. With UVM sequence based stimulus, accesses to these registers are made via a bus agent, sometimes in a directed way that emulates software accesses, sometimes using constrained random stimulus. This seminar describes a technique in which C stimulus can be applied to the DUT via an existing UVM testbench that contains one or more bus agents. The approach used is to add a C register read/write API for use by C source code, which calls tasks in a SystemVerilog package via the SystemVerilog DPI mechanism to enable the C to make register accesses via the UVM testbench bus agents. The API enables c code to be compiled and then run on the host workstation during the simulation of a UVM environment. What You Will Learn Review of a register-level testbench architecture Tradeoffs associated with C stimulus alternatives How to extend your environment to accept C stimulus How to use the c_stimulus_pkg to use C code as stimulus in your environment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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