Specman Insights

What is Specman?

Specman is a hardware verification language (HVL) and environment, primarily used for functional verification of hardware designs. It uses a data-driven, object-oriented approach with temporal expressions to describe system behavior and generate stimulus. It's known for its powerful constraint solver which enables automated test generation based on high-level specifications. Often used to find corner cases and bugs that would be difficult to discover with traditional directed testing.

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What other technologies are related to Specman?

Specman Competitor Technologies

Vera

Vera was a competing verification language, though now largely obsolete. It aimed to achieve similar goals as Specman/e.

mentioned alongside Specman in 14% (73) of relevant job posts

UVM

UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) is a standardized methodology used in SystemVerilog. UVM and Specman are often used for the same types of verification tasks. UVM has largely replaced Specman in popularity.

mentioned alongside Specman in 2% (373) of relevant job posts

OVM

OVM (Open Verification Methodology) was a predecessor to UVM. Like UVM, it is a verification methodology that competed with Specman, although it's largely replaced by UVM now.

mentioned alongside Specman in 2% (90) of relevant job posts

SystemVerilog

SystemVerilog is a hardware description and verification language. It is the language that UVM is based on, and provides alternative verification constructs to Specman 'e'.

mentioned alongside Specman in 1% (198) of relevant job posts

System Verilog

System Verilog is a hardware description and verification language. It is the language that UVM is based on, and provides alternative verification constructs to Specman 'e'.

mentioned alongside Specman in 1% (198) of relevant job posts