VLSI Design Verification with SystemVerilog & UVM
Build verification environments that find bugs—and explain how you know they work. VLSI & AI Chip Design · Practical career preparation
What does a design verification engineer do?
A design verification engineer checks whether a digital hardware design behaves as its specification requires. The work includes planning tests, generating stimulus, checking results, finding corner-case failures and documenting what has—and has not—been verified.
In this course, you follow that workflow from a small self-checking testbench to a reusable UVM environment. You learn to distinguish a design defect from a testbench error and support your conclusions with reproducible evidence.
Define expected behavior, boundaries and error cases before writing tests.
Use reference models, monitors and assertions to detect incorrect behavior.
Organize stimulus, agents, scoreboards and register models with UVM.
Run regressions, investigate coverage gaps and defend your closure report.
A passing simulation is only useful when the checks can catch failures.
You will deliberately encounter broken handshakes, stale register predictions, reset interruptions and misleading coverage results. Each exercise asks you to reproduce the problem, explain its cause and show that your fix addresses it.
That practice carries through to the final assessment: you must explain your environment and diagnose an unfamiliar failure individually.
Learn through classes, labs and individual feedback.
The program combines live mentor-led classes, guided labs, project work and support sessions. Your diagnostic determines the preparation you need before entering the common core.
Choose on-campus, live online or a working-professional format. An advisor can explain the current class format and learning support before enrollment.
One verification core. Preparation matched to your starting point.
- •Read a small sequential RTL block and explain its reset behavior.
- •Interpret a waveform and reason about clock-cycle events.
- •Work with binary arithmetic and basic digital logic.
- •Run a simulation or command-line task and inspect its output.
Leave with skills you can demonstrate.
What you practise before the core.
Preparation is assigned from your diagnostic. Learners who need more foundational support receive a separate learning plan before entering the core.
Thirteen modules. From verification planning to an independent capstone.
Each module combines technical concepts with a practical task, a failure investigation and a reviewed submission. Preparation sits before the common core.
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Verification workflow and planning
Foundations
Turn a hardware specification into a plan that defines what must be checked.
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Verification workflow and planning
FoundationsTurn a hardware specification into a plan that defines what must be checked.
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SystemVerilog language and simulation
SystemVerilog
Use the language and simulation model correctly before building larger environments.
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SystemVerilog language and simulation
SystemVerilogUse the language and simulation model correctly before building larger environments.
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OOP, concurrency and transaction environments
SystemVerilog
Separate transactions, stimulus, monitoring and checking into a clear architecture.
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OOP, concurrency and transaction environments
SystemVerilogSeparate transactions, stimulus, monitoring and checking into a clear architecture.
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SystemVerilog Assertions
Assertions
Express temporal requirements and check that your properties activate as intended.
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SystemVerilog Assertions
AssertionsExpress temporal requirements and check that your properties activate as intended.
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Functional coverage and constrained randomization
Coverage
Generate legal stimulus and use coverage to find meaningful gaps.
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Functional coverage and constrained randomization
CoverageGenerate legal stimulus and use coverage to find meaningful gaps.
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UVM foundations and complete agent
UVM
Build a working UVM environment with a traceable transaction flow.
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UVM foundations and complete agent
UVMBuild a working UVM environment with a traceable transaction flow.
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UVM reuse and coordinated stimulus
UVM
Reuse validated components while coordinating several sources of activity.
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UVM reuse and coordinated stimulus
UVMReuse validated components while coordinating several sources of activity.
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APB and AXI4-Lite verification
Protocols
Verify defined bus behavior through realistic stalls, errors and timing variations.
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APB and AXI4-Lite verification
ProtocolsVerify defined bus behavior through realistic stalls, errors and timing variations.
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UVM Register Abstraction Layer
Register models
Connect register-level tests to bus activity while handling prediction and side effects.
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UVM Register Abstraction Layer
Register modelsConnect register-level tests to bus activity while handling prediction and side effects.
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Regression automation and closure
Debug and closure
Make failures reproducible and keep result reporting trustworthy.
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Regression automation and closure
Debug and closureMake failures reproducible and keep result reporting trustworthy.
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Advanced verification awareness and AI-assisted work
Orientation
Understand where simulation fits and evaluate AI-generated suggestions critically.
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Advanced verification awareness and AI-assisted work
OrientationUnderstand where simulation fits and evaluate AI-generated suggestions critically.
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Independent verification capstone
Capstone
Bring planning, UVM, protocols, registers and closure into one assessed project.
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Independent verification capstone
CapstoneBring planning, UVM, protocols, registers and closure into one assessed project.
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Technical interviews and portfolio handoff
Career preparation
Explain your work clearly and demonstrate independent debugging.
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Technical interviews and portfolio handoff
Career preparationExplain your work clearly and demonstrate independent debugging.
Scope note: APB and AXI4-Lite receive practical implementation and verification coverage. Advanced bus protocols, full-chip verification, formal, CDC/RDC and low-power flows are introductions or later specializations where stated.
Work with the tools behind a reproducible verification environment.
The simulator, software versions and access arrangements will be specified for the cohort. The core is simulation-based; an FPGA board is not required.
Build your skills through three guided projects and one independent capstone.
These projects develop across the modules. They are integrated into the core curriculum.
Self-checking FIFO environment
Build a transaction-based SystemVerilog environment with an independent reference model. Test full/empty boundaries, stalls and reset, then investigate deliberately seeded defects.
Reusable UVM agent
Turn the environment into configurable UVM components. Demonstrate active/passive operation, transaction flow, coordinated stimulus and clean reset handling.
Bus and register verification
Verify APB behavior, complete AXI4-Lite agent scaffolding and integrate a small register model. Check partial writes, errors, volatile status and prediction behavior.
AXI4-Lite-controlled FIFO subsystem
Verify a supplied digital IP block with control/status registers, FIFO behavior, threshold interrupts and an independent ready/valid data interface.
Your work covers the complete verification cycle: specification review, planning, environment integration, independent checks, stress scenarios, regression and closure.
- •Verification plan and environment diagram.
- •UVM source, independent scoreboard and assertions.
- •Register model, protocol scenarios and functional coverage.
- •Reproducible regression scripts and bug reports.
- •Closure report explaining results, exclusions and remaining limitations.
- •Individual project walkthrough and live debugging assessment.
Demonstrate what you can do.
Assessment combines practical submissions, checkpoints, an independent capstone and a live technical defense.
EDIFY
CERT
Prepare for entry-level verification work with a project you can explain.
- •A reviewed technical project summary and repository README.
- •Resume statements grounded in your actual contribution.
- •Waveform, SystemVerilog, UVM and debugging interview practice.
- •An individual capstone walkthrough with technical feedback.
The course prepares you for applications and interviews. It does not guarantee an interview, offer, employer or salary.
Build your portfolio. Prepare your profile. Practise your interviews.
Evidence from your own work.
For this course, your portfolio centres on the verification environment, bug investigations, regression evidence and technical defense you complete.
Profile and resume preparation.
A reviewed technical project summary, a readable repository and resume statements grounded in your contribution.
Interview practice and introductions.
Technical interview practice, with role-fit introductions where available.
RoboEdify does not guarantee an interview, offer, salary, employer, location or timeline.
Meet the team behind RoboEdify.
Manikanta brings 15 years of enterprise platform architecture experience from AT&T, Salesforce, Cox Communications and Broadcom. His background includes enterprise platform and AI rollouts for Fortune-500 banks, telcos and insurers, and production agentic-AI deployments for governed case handling.
Education: M.S. in Engineering, Purdue University.
Ravi leads RoboEdify's implementation and delivery practice. His background spans enterprise automation programs, deployment, evaluation evidence and delivery governance.
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- Course
- VLSI Design Verification with SystemVerilog & UVM
- Preparation
- Diagnostic-based preparation before the common core
- Level
- Specialist
- Curriculum
- 13 modules
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