Joseph Hupcey III speaks with Amiq CEO Cristian Amitroaie. Discuss trends in supporting the unavoidable mix of design & verification languages in simple work flows, and innovations supporting specific languages like SystemVerilog, e, and VHDL.

Now, regardless of what language(s) your design/testbench was written in, you can use one environment to navigate seamlessly through large projects, easily see the big picture, and understand the whole design.
This cross-language integration does not mean translation from a language to another, but easy navigation through the source code, no matter in what language is written, using DVT's advanced navigation capabilities and unified perspective GUI. Amiq Verissimo SV TB Linter performs code linting for generic System Verilog code and UVM.
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"Previous versions of the DVT IDE allowed users to work on projects that contained source code written in multiple languages, such as e, SystemVerilog, Verilog, and VHDL. However, some of the IDE’s specific editing and navigation features were restricted to the scope of a single language. Our goal has been to improve the cross-language integration and will continue to focus on this topic, in order to support the design and verification teams that have new or legacy code written in multiple languages, to increase their productivity."
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"Readers of this blog and of Team Specman will recall that Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and verification services provider AMIQ has been in the vanguard of supporting functional verification methodologies and testbench creation for years. The success of verification engineers using AMIQ's "DVT" IDE product has been increasingly noticed by their RTL designer colleagues such that AMIQ is now adding new capabilities to DVT to support RTL design work flows."
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Amiq Verissimo SV TB Linter performs code linting for generic System Verilog code and UVM.
Amiq DVT Eclipse IDE provides IDE for design and verification languages like "e", System Verilog, VHDL. Visual C like stuff. Capacity. "Took one customer's 15 M lines of code, no problem."
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"The Design and Verification Tools IDE has been created from the beginning, as its name shows, with both design and verification in mind. Although DVT's early adopters were verification engineers, its popularity has rapidly increased among design engineers. The capabilities released today are the result of listening to the designers' feedback and requests. These features enable design engineers to easily understand how a signal propagates in a design, connect two modules across the design hierarchy, and inspect and document a module structure.",
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"The AMIQ team is friendly, creative, and has a passion for bringing sharp ideas to life. These qualities are reflected by the new shape of the logo as well as by its dark blue color. The dark blue also captures AMIQ's focus on deep knowledge and domain expertise, excellence, integrity, and commitment to the customers worldwide. The red color echoes the two companies' dynamism and passion, qualities that have been passed on by the three founders since inception.",
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"At DVCon 2012, long time Cadence Connections Partner AMIQ launch new product -- the "Verissimo" SystemVerilog testbench linter is optimized for functional verification with UVM, and supports users adding their own custom rules. In this video AMIQ's CEO Cristian Amitroaie reviews the highlights of this exciting new offering."

"The Verissimo SystemVerilog Testbench Linter is a a coding guideline and verification methodology compliance checker that enables engineers to perform an effective audit of their testbenches and helps them meet the requirements of today's complex functional verification.",
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It was the odd side niche tools like Amiq DVT Eclipse, Atrenta Spyglass, Duolog Bitwise, that caught user's mindshare in the Verilog/VHDL simulation space.

Anonymous:
Amiq DVT Eclipse for 'e' and System Verilog: I had not realized that I had been developing code by banging rocks together.

Ben Cohen, well known author of VHDL and SVA books:
I have been playing with this editor. It is tailored for System Verilog and particularly for OVM/UVM. It's extremely powerful is time saving.
This tool was clearly developed by users themselves (not just requirement people).
DVT Eclipse does dynamic code check on the fly, linting for SystemVerilog and linting for OVM/UVM, choice of editors (e.g., emacs), does context sensitive references to where objects are used, templates, OVM/UVM compliance checks with warnings and error IDs and links to them, auto macro inclusion on selected preferences, class diagram creation with options of details, links to user define tags in code.
It's very VERY powerful and is a great aid in development/debugging of design and verification code (and not just for SystemVerilog, as it also supports VHDL.

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Video: Update on AMIQ’s DVT IDE at DAC 2011 - Specman Debugger Integration, Open API

"The DVT e-Debug feature integrates seamlessly with Cadence® Incisive® Enterprise Simulator to provide further productivity and quality increase in the verification process.",
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Based on the Eclipse open source platform, DVT is aimed at newcomers and experts working on system design and verification. "I had experience of IDEs in the software development world," Cristian Amitroaie explained. "We urgently needed one in our consulting business and would have bought one if it existed!". Instead, Amiq developed its own IDE and, when customers saw the productivity gains in verification, they wanted it too.

"The complexity of SoC Verification faced by customers today requires more stringent adherence to the UVM reuse verification methodology in order to ensure more seamless IP integration. Capabilities like AMIQ's DVT UVM Compliance Checker are essential for customers to check that their verification IP is consistent with the UVM in order to accelerate time to SoC and silicon realization.", said Michael Stellfox.
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Come Learn about the DVT™ IDE
Amiq continues to make the development of OVM and UVM easier and easier with their DVT™ solution.
Interview With AMIQ And Update On Their DVT™ IDE

"AMIQ's eDT makes our verification engineers more efficient. The advanced search features, hyperlinks, and class browser are great enhancements to functional verification, which help us to increase the quality of our projects", said Tamir Ostfeld, Sr. Director of VLSI Development at BigBand Networks.
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With the OVM to UVM Migration Wizard capability, the DVT provides automatic OVM to UVM migration, which helps users that adopt UVM to get up to speed in record time.
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"AMIQ's DVT platform makes a significant impact on the efficiency and quality of verification code development and maintenance", said Coby Hanoch, EDAcon Partners' President and CEO. "We are impressed with how fast the verification engineers see the value of this solution and adopt it".
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Starting with the 2.9.3 release, the DVT IDE provides support for both UVM-based code development and OVM to UVM migration.
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AMIQ today announced the availability of compliance-checking rules for the Open Verification Methodology (OVM) in the DVT integrated development environment (IDE).
"In line with our continuous improvement of DVT as the complete development environment for e and SystemVerilog, we added OVM Compliance Review to help audit the architecture of any OVM-based verification environment", said Cristian Amitroaie, CEO of AMIQ.
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Binyamini pointed to third-party support for "e" language verification. AMIQ offer native "e" language support inside tools. AMIQ offers an Eclipse-based development environment for "e" and SystemVerilog.

AMIQ Consulting (Bucharest, Romania) last month also rolled out an IDE for the "e" language based on the Eclipse open-source standard. The company has already seen a lot of demand, said founder Cristian Amitroaie. AMIQ also offers an "e" language parser, import viewer and name checker. "For AMIQ, the final step in the IEEE standardization process is a further confirmation that Cadence is committed to go all the way and support the 'e' language technology," Amitroaie said. read more >>

AMIQ Consulting (Bucharest, Romania) offers EParser, an "e" language parser that EDA vendors or in-house design groups can use to build "e" language tools. Cristian Amitroaie, AMIQ Consulting's founder, noted that IEEE standardization will make the language open, prove it to be mature and increase customer confidence in what is no longer a "proprietary" language.

"As consultants for verification projects, we've seen it ['e'] working," Amitroaie said. "It solves real problems. It is a mature language." read more >>

"The standardization of e is an important milestone for us," said Cristian Amitroaie, founder of AMIQ Consulting. "We are the first provider of an e parser, in addition to services and tools for the e language. Stability and recognition afforded by the IEEE standardization acts as a catalyst to broaden our market opportunities. We invested in the e parser to speed-up the development of e-related design automation tools in the context of an established standard. We expect this investment to show its value." read more >>