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Harry Foster, University of Bristol, April 2010

Industry Trends Compare and Contrast, Harry Foster, Chief Verification Scientist at Mentor (WARNING! 8MB file)

SNUG UK, Reading, May 2010

Migrating to UVM: how and why, Mike Bartley, TVS

Cadence Verification Challenge, Bristol, April 2010

Integrating Ethernet CMS with Internal Verification Environments, Mike Bartley, TVS

Silicon South West, Bath, April 2010

The Economics of Verification, Mike Bartley, TVS

DVClub 26th April 2010 - on Design IP – help or hindrance to verification?

"Metrics and methods to determine if your IP has been pre-verified", Moshik Rubin, Cadence
"Integration Verification: Re-Create or Re-Use?", Nick Gatherer, Trident Digital Systems
"Fast SoC Architecture Exploration Using Traffic Simulation Techniques", Nadjib Mammeri, ARM

DVClub 18th January 2010 - on Coverage Closure

"Introduction and results from Survey", Mike Bartley, TVS,
"Hybrid-Formal Coverage Convergence", Dan Benua, Synopsys
"Heuristic Stimuli Generation For Coverage Closure Exploiting Simulation Feedback", Giovanni Squillero, Politecnico di Torino, Italy
"Easy and Hard Ways to Reach Coverage Closure", Avi Ziv, IBM
Streaming video of the presentations
"Using a Formal Property Checker for Simulation Coverage Closure", Infineon and Bristol Uni

DVClub 14th September 2009 - on Verification Management

"Introduction and results from Survey", Mike Bartley, TVS,
"A MySQL Database System for Management of all Verification Project Phases", Thomas Gmeinder, XMOS
"UCIS – The Unified Coverage Interoperability Standard", Darron May, Mentor
"Managing Verification at ARM", Bryan Dickman, ARM

DVClub 22nd April 2009 - on Verification Methodology

"An overview of current verification methodology standards", Jonathan Bromley, Doulos
“Practical implications of adopting OVM / SV”, Andrew Bond, Icera, Bristol
“Progressive migration from ‘e’ to SystemVerilog : A Case Study”, Chris Brown, TI, Northampton
“The AVM and OVM in IP Core Verification - Experiences and Observations”, Gareth Edwards, Xilinx, Edinburgh

Testing Experience Magazine - March 2009

Outsourcing software testing

Bristol Branch of the BCS - 21st Jan 2009

Presentation on Outsourcing for the Bristol Branch of the BCS

DVClub 21st January 2009 - on Formal Verification

Kerstin Eder, Bristol University reviewed the UK academic research
Steve Wright, a PhD student with Bristol University reports on a formal correct-by-construction approach to ISA development
Mike Bartley, TVS reports on the survey results, current tools and current research outside the region
Richard Boulton shares the result of an evaluation on cost of deployment at Icera
Geoff Barrett, Broadcom explains why he thinks it doesn’t work (slides not available)
Tim Blackmore presents the theory and practice of formal verification at Infineon

Testing Experience Magazine

Automated software testing

DVClub 20th October 2008

Bristol University Overview Presentation
Genetic Programming in automated test code generation for a multi-threaded microprocessor
DVClub Aspect-Extended UML
Certitude at ST

White Papers

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PCIe verification – first time silicon success at ClearSpeed.