Mike and I attended Mentor Graphics New England Users Group Meeting yesterday and mike did a small presentation about Teal and Truss. For reference these were the slides Mike presented. It's always interesting to give a presentation and I think we're getting better each time we try. This presentation I think better highlighted the thinking behind teal and truss while also giving a decent overview.

Regards,

/Robert

While writing our two books, Mike and I frequently discussed not only the motivations for creating individual verification components but also how the should "look" for the end-user. Our discussion was always centered around usability for us verification engineers, so presenting a simple, clean code-interface was more important then simplifying the internals of Teal and Truss. (I'm not convinced all verification environment I've seen think that way...)

Mike and I was recently talking to Peggy Aycinena about Teal and Truss and it motivated Mike enough to put pen to paper (or is it key strokes to screen?) and write a couple of articles talking about why our code looks the way it does, one has now been published

We're happy announce that the teal and truss section of both our C++ and SystemVerilog books are on the downloads page!

Apart from providing a preview of our style, they also provide documentation for our open-source libraries.

So to get a feel for what our books are like and to find out more details about our verification libraries teal and truss, and what "the dance" is all about, simply download either the C++ or SystemVerilog sections from our downloads page.

You can also access the chapters for teal and truss for C++ by following this link, or if you are interested in SystemVerilog follow this link.

People,Due to a human mistake the support@trusster.com e-mail has not been working for, probably, the last several months. I just noticed the problem today and it's not fixed. So if you have tried to contact us using this e-mail please try again or better post a note onto our forums

/Robert
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This is pretty cool! John Cooley has picked us as #17 on his "must see" at DAC next week. This is what he has to say:

Almost anyone who's done verification knows about Synopsys' VMM, but this new Teal and Truss open source equivalent caught me off guard. It's by two guys: Mike Mintz and Robert Ekendahl who wrote a book about C++ verification and it blossomed from there into free libs for System Verilog and C++ that run in Questa and VCS, with NC-Sim and Aldec in the planning. Sun, Freescale, Cisco, and Avid are some of its users. The good people at Aldec (booth 5860) are letting Mike Mintz present there. Freebie: temporary tatoos

Note! Slides are attached to this post
So Mike did a web-presentation together with Igor from Aldec titled "Object Oriented Programming for Hardware Verification Demystified". It's an introduction to how OOP can be used for HW verification

Whew, quite a title! But we're really happy to be mentioned on such an important site! See what they say here:

-> EETimes.com - Open-source libraries boost SystemVerilog <-

Thank you ee-times for the kind words. In reality we just released our systemVerilog version, so head over to our downloads page and take a look. Then head to our forum and let us know what you think!

Great news!

Springer has agreed to publish the truss chapter online as a PDF for marketing of our C++ verification book. This is great news as this chapter in more details describes the methodology of truss, one of our open-source libraries. So if you are interested in finding out more about what this site is about please download the chapter directly from springer. Our book focuses on much more then our open source libraries teal and truss, about half of the book talks about good object oriented practice as applied for verification.

Another week another look! We'll I've been struggling with getting the forums to "feel" the way I wanted. As part of solving that we've decided to upgrade our look at bit. I like this new theme as it's fluid and should adapt to the screen you're looking at. We still need to improve the feel of the forum. Hopefully that will happen over the next few days.

What do you think about the new look?

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