Tuesday, January 1, 2013

System verilog 2012 features !!!


I recently came across a paper presented at DVcon 2012 which summarized the proposed features of system verilog 2012 standard. The feature that  first grabbed my attention was multiple inheritance  support in system verilog similar to Java. This feature will ease the test bench development effort in future. The current methodology based on system verilog will potentially leverage this feature when it is available. Other feature which is also a good addition is the soft constraints which allow the constraints to be overridden without creating a conflict , currently we have to turn of the conflicting constraints using constraint mode to override a constraint. another interesting addition is the unique constraint to generate unique values across a list of variable or array elements , currently most of the users use custom logic or algorithm to generate unique values.