Another Introduction to Cocotb - Luke Darnell - ORConf 2018

An introduction and tutorial on using cocotb and Python to verify your Verilog and VHDL designs. This presentation will cover why you should be using cocotb instead of SystemVerilog and UVM, and its growing usage inside Broadcom, plus an accompanying tutorial on github. Presenter: Luke Darnell Luke is an ASIC Design Engineer with 14 years experience working in Broadcom's WCC Business designing WLAN and Bluetooth combo chips. He's based in the WLAN ASIC team and has worked on a wide variety of projects including baseband phy implementations, SOC IP integration, ARM-based CPU subsystem design, AXI/AHB/APB backplane designs, block and chip level design verification, radio modeling, silicon implementation, version control and continuous integration. He became interested in cocotb after a less than compelling experience with UVM and Verilog/SystemVerilog in general. He got Broadcom to sponsor a number of new features and bug fixes. He continues to use cocotb on a daily basis and evangelizes its use inside Broadcom. Talk recorded at ORConf 2018, the Open Source Digital Design conference, held in Gdansk, Poland and organized by the FOSSi Foundation.