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10 TECHNICAL ARTICLES

Practical notes on verification, formal methods, and design.

Original technical guidance grounded in published standards and primary references. No invented project outcomes or anonymous success metrics.

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ENVAGENTSEQUENCERDRIVERMONITORDUTSCOREBOARDAGENT / DUT / SCOREBOARD

UVM testbench architecture that remains maintainable.

A practical separation of stimulus, protocol observation, prediction, checking, configuration, and coverage.

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CLKREQACKreq |-> ##[1:3] ackSAMPLED INTENT / WINDOW

SystemVerilog assertions that scale beyond block level.

Write properties around sampled intent, explicit reset semantics, reusable interfaces, and actionable failures.

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RESETDEPTH kUNPROVENREACHABLE STATE / BOUND

Choosing a useful scope for formal verification.

Select bounded, control-oriented questions with clear invariants instead of treating formal as a universal replacement for simulation.

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ENV LEGALREACHABLETRIGGEREDVACUOUS GAPLEGAL / REACHABLE / TRIGGERED

Formal assumptions, vacuity, and proof coverage.

A green result is meaningful only when the environment is legal, reachable behavior remains possible, and obligations actually trigger.

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PROOF DEPTHP1P2BOUNDEDP3P4BOUNDEDP5DEPTH PER PROPERTY

Formal convergence is an engineering problem.

Diagnose depth, state, arithmetic, memories, and property structure before reaching for arbitrary proof limits.

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CLK ACLK BFFFFFFMETASTABILITY2-FLOP SYNCHRONIZERSTRUCTURAL + PROTOCOL + RESET + STRESSSYNCHRONIZER / BOUNDARY

Clock-domain crossing verification beyond structural checks.

Combine structural analysis, protocol properties, reset review, and simulation stress to verify synchronizers and data-transfer schemes.

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R-TYPE · 32-BITfunct73125rs22420rs11915funct31412rd117opcode60CUSTOM OPCODE SPACE IN ACCENTENCODING LEGALITY · ARCH STATE · PRIVILEGEINSTRUCTION ENCODING

Verification strategy for a custom RISC-V extension.

Verify encoding legality, architectural state, privilege interactions, exceptions, and microarchitectural behavior against a precise extension specification.

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BINREQUIREMENTCHECKERDECISIONEVERY UNHIT BIN RESOLVES TO ONE OF THREE01 MORE STIMULUS02 DOCUMENTED EXCLUSION03 THE REQUIREMENT WAS NOT UNDERSTOODBIN → REQUIREMENT → CHECKER → DECISION

Coverage closure as a risk model, not a percentage.

Connect each coverage target to a requirement, a checker, a review decision, and a documented reason for exclusion.

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DUTSTATEASSERTCONTROLOBSERVEEXPLICIT STATE · STABLE INTERFACES · DETERMINISTIC RESETCONTROL / STATE / OBSERVE

Design for verifiability before the testbench exists.

Make intent observable and controllable through explicit state, stable interfaces, deterministic reset, assertions, and bounded structures.

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