Design Verification Blog

UVM methodology, protocol verification strategies, debugging complex failures, and coverage closure techniques.

UVM testbench architecture

How to build scalable environments that don’t collapse later.

  • Agent boundaries
  • Scoreboards and reference models
  • Config strategy and reuse
  • Debug hooks

Protocol verification mindset

What “compliance” means and how to test for it.

  • Spec reading tactics
  • Corner cases and ordering
  • Negative testing
  • Assertions and checkers

Coverage closure

Make coverage meaningful and drive it to signoff.

  • Functional coverage design
  • Coverage holes triage
  • Regression strategy
  • Quality gates