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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.

So if these section are free, what else are in the books? Well, the section dealing with teal and truss is less then a 1/4 of the books. Most of the books could care less about our verification libraries but instead talk about how to best apply Object Oriented Programming (OOP) to Verification. We provide many code examples as well as lessons learned with the hope that you can avoid some of the pit-falls we encountered.

In fact, both our C++ and SystemVerilog verification books share the same format and are divided into four parts. The chapters provided for download are the second part of the book. In case you are curious, the four parts are:

• Part one provides and overview of Object Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts and conceptually looks at how a high level white-board block-diagram drawing can be turned into classes and code, as well as a short history of how verification has developed.
• Part two describes our open source verification libraries. We talk about our verification libraries in the books to show what a real, professional verification system looks like. Our hope is that people will find our libraries and ideas useful and adapt (parts of) them, or at least serve as inspiration or contrast too their actual environments. A lot of experience and industry best-practice ideas has gone into creating these libraries.
• Part three shows how to use OOP for Verification. It’s full of lessons learned, tips-and-tricks from years of experience using OOP in both HW verification and SW development fields and multitude of projects.
• Part four provides several complete verification environment examples too give the reader a sense for what an OOP verification environment looks like put together. As we provide the complete environment (including run scripts) we hope people can find useful code and ideas from them.

Happy reading!