Announced at DAC 2011, the UVM/OVM Online Methodology Cookbook is exclusively available at the Verification Academy.

The UVM/OVM Online Methodology Cookbook, provided by the Verification Methodology Team at Mentor Graphics and containing all their methodology documentation for UVM, OVM, and other methodologies in a single resource.

Cookbook Objectives:
The VM Team brainstormed objectives in creating the UVM/OVM Cookbook and were as follows:

Create the collateral demanded by our customers.

• Information on how to do things using our methodologies
• Why you do things in a particular way
• Real code examples to illustrate those concepts, that can be pasted / used
• Coherent set of advice on an area of methodology
• Guide to best practices for usage, coding, debugging

Grow the set of available collateral over time.

• A dynamic resource that can be visited any time
• A flexible toolkit for Mentor's VM experts to use to organize collateral
• Mobilize the content in different ways for different needs
• Can point support people or end users to information by URL
• Avoid restating arguments for/against a particular approach
• Allow content to be printed off as PDF for offline use

Cookbook Features:

• Access to hundreds of articles written by Mentor VM experts
• Methodology topics covering all areas of the OVM and UVM
• Recommended and alternate approaches with pros and cons explained
• Real code examples available on the page and for download
• Hyperlinks between cookbook topics and OVM/UVM reference guides
• Full migration guides from xVM to UVM, covering many situations
• Ability to print extracts or the full cookbook as PDF
• Comprehensive full-text search capability

See for yourself, login and start viewing articles, or "kick the tires" by accessing the Cookbook Tour demo.

Notes

The site contains UVM pages in the main namespace, each named e.g. TopicName, and a subset of OVM-specific pages which are all named Ovm/TopicName. A banner at the top of the page informs you which version of the page you are looking at, to avoid confusion between similar OVM and UVM pages.