SVA Insights | Sumble

What is SVA?

SVA most commonly refers to SystemVerilog Assertions. SVAs are a powerful mechanism used in hardware verification to formally specify design behavior and check for violations during simulation or formal verification. They allow engineers to express properties of a design, such as temporal relationships between signals, and automatically monitor these properties during testing to identify bugs early in the development process. They are heavily used in the hardware design and verification domain to find subtle bugs.

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What other technologies are related to SVA?

SVA Competitor Technologies

PSL

Property Specification Language (PSL) is another assertion language that competes with SVA for formal verification and dynamic validation.

mentioned alongside SVA in 43% (277) of relevant job posts

VC Formal

Formal verification tools like VC Formal use assertion languages (including potentially PSL or other formalisms) to verify designs, making them a competitor to SVA-based verification.

mentioned alongside SVA in 24% (131) of relevant job posts

JasperGold

JasperGold is a formal verification tool that utilizes assertion-based verification (ABV), and as such is a competitor. It supports SVA but could also support other verification languages.

mentioned alongside SVA in 23% (108) of relevant job posts

Questa Formal

Questa Formal is a formal verification tool from Mentor Graphics (now Siemens EDA) that supports assertion-based verification using languages such as SVA. Thus, it is a competitor because it performs similar tasks.

mentioned alongside SVA in 40% (54) of relevant job posts

SVA Complementary Technologies

UVM

Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is a standard methodology for verifying hardware designs. SVA assertions are frequently used within UVM testbenches to check design behavior, making them highly complementary.

mentioned alongside SVA in 3% (696) of relevant job posts

SystemVerilog

SystemVerilog is the language in which SVA is embedded. It provides the syntax and semantics for SVA assertions, so it's fundamentally complementary.

mentioned alongside SVA in 3% (544) of relevant job posts

OVM

Open Verification Methodology (OVM) is a verification methodology that precedes UVM. SVA assertions can be used within OVM testbenches, making them complementary.

mentioned alongside SVA in 2% (88) of relevant job posts