IEEE 1800-2005 pdf download IEEE Standard for SystemVerilog— Unified Hardware Design, Specification, and Verification Language
1.Overview
1.1 Scope
This standard specifies extensions for a higher level of abstraction for modeling and verification with theVerilog” hardware description language (HDL). These additions extend Verilog into the systems space andthe verification space. SystemVerilog is built on top of IEEE Std 1364TM’ for the Verilog HDL. Thisstandard includes design specification methods, embedded assertions language, testbench languageincluding coverage and assertions application programming interface (APl), and a direct programminginterface (DPI).
Throughout this standard, the following terms apply:
Verilog refers to IEEE Std 1364 for the Verilog HDL
Verilog-2001 refers to IEEE Std 1364-2001 (B4]2 for the Verilog HDL
Verilog-1995 refers to IEEE Std 1364-1995 (B3] for the Verilog HDL.
SystemVerilog refers to the extensions to the Verilog standard (IEEE Std 1364) as defined in thisstandard.
1.2 Purpose
SystemVerilog is built on top ofIEEE Std 1364. SystemVerilog improves the productivity, readability, andreusability of Verilog-based code. The language enhancements in SystemVerilog provide more concisehardware descriptions, while still providing an easy route with existing tools into current hardwareimplementation flows. The enhancements also provide extensive support for directed and constrainedrandom testbench development, coverage-driven verification, and assertion-based verification.
SystemVerilog adds extended and new constructs to Verilog, including the following:
— Extensions to data types for better encapsulation and compactness of code and for tighter
specification
— C data types: int , typedef , struct , union , enum
— Other data types: bounded queues, logic (0, 1, X, Z) and bit (0, 1), tagged unions for safety
— Dynamic data types: string, classes, dynamic queues, dynamic arrays, associative arrays
including automatic memory management freeing users from deallocation issues
— Dynamic casting and bit-stream casting
— Automatic/static specification on a per-variable-instance basis
— Extended operators for concise description
— Wild equality and inequality
— Built-in methods to extend the language
— Operator overloading
— Streaming operators
— Set membership
— Extended procedural statements
— Pattern matching on selection statements for use with tagged unions
— Enhanced loop statements plus the foreach statement
— C-like jump statements: return, break, continue
— final blocks that execute at the end of simulation (inverse of initial )
— Extended event control and sequence events
— Enhanced process control
— Extensions to always blocks to include synthesis consistent simulation semantics
— Extensions to fork…join to model pipelines and for enhanced process control
— Fine-grain process control
— Enhanced tasks and functions
— C-like void functions
— Pass by reference
— Default arguments
— Argument binding by name
— Optional arguments
— Import/export functions for DPI
— Classes: object-oriented mechanism that provides abstraction, encapsulation, and safe pointer capabilities
— Automated testbench support with random constraints
— Interprocess communication synchronization
— Semaphores
— Mailboxes
— Event extensions, event variables, and event sequencing
— Clarification and extension of the scheduling semantics
— Cycle-based functionality: clocking blocks and cycle-based attributes that help reduce development, ease maintainability, and promote reusability
— Cycle-based signal drives and samples
— Synchronous samples

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