EE165 Digital Design Verification, Fall 2023

EE165 Digital Design Verification Fall 2023 Class Schedule & Assignments


Lecture #	Day/Date	Lecture Topic	Lab	Lab Due Dates	Quiz	Spear
1	Tue Sep 5	Intro				Chap 1; intro
2	Thu Sep 7	Intro part 2
3	Tue Sep 12	Intro to SystemVerilog (data types, statements) and the FIFO, flipped	FIFO #1 (Initial FIFO)			Chap 2,3; SV datatypes, statements
4	Thu Sep 14	Understanding a design
5	Tue Sep 19	discussion of above
6	Thu Sep 21	Verification overview -- the big concepts
7	Tue Sep 26	overview(cont)	FIFO #2 (ref model, scoreboard)	FIFO #1 due
8	Thu Sep 28	The mesh (flipped)			design, concepts
9	Tue Oct 3	SystemVerilog classes (read Spear in advance; we'll answer questions & go over mesh lab #1 TB code)	Mesh #1 (initial mesh)	FIFO #2 due		Chap 5; Basic OOP
10	Thu Oct 5	Writing a testbench (drivers, monitors, checkers, etc)
11	Tue Oct 10	TB (cont)
12	Thu Oct 12	Generating stimulus (directed, RCG)	Mesh #2 (RCG)	Mesh #1 due
13	Tue Oct 17	stimulus(cont)				Chap 6; SV randomization
14	Thu Oct 19	stimulus(cont), + Correctness checking (self checking, reference models, monitors, assertions, etc)
15	Tue Oct 24	corr(cont)
16	Thu Oct 26	corr(cont)	Mesh #3 (tracker)	Mesh #2 due	mesh, stimulus
17	Tue Oct 31	Tracker
18	Thu Nov 2	coverage
*	Tue Nov 7	Fri on Tue
19	Thu Nov 9	coverage(cont)	Mesh #4 (coverage)	Mesh #3 due		Chap 9; coverage
20	Tue Nov 14	Developing a test plan (what is it, what to test)
21	Thu Nov 16	TP(cont)
*	Tue Nov 21	pre-holiday travel
*	Thu Nov 23	Thanksgiving
22	Tue Nov 28	Post-silicon verification			correctness, coverage
23	Thu Nov 30	PSV(cont)	Mesh challenge	Mesh #4 due
24	Tue Dec 5	PSV mock debug & war stories
25	Thu Dec 7	mesh-challenge help
26	Thu Dec 21 J+ no final exam	mesh challenge due		Mesh challenge due