Author Archives: Bryan Morris

About Bryan Morris

I have been doing ASIC verification for over 12 years, and before that I did about 15 years of embedded software design & management. The software world dealt with increasing complexity by creating these agile development techniques; I think hardware can adapt and evolve their own agile techniques. I'm working as a consultant now and see where agile practices can help hardware development get a much-needed productivity boost. I'd always welcome your thoughts: bryan.morris@agilesoc.com

SVUnit Future Directions

Posted on January 9, 2012 by Bryan Morris

Future Directions of SVUnit This post looks at some ideas for future directions for SVUnit.  Both Neil and I put forth our views.

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 30, 2011 by Bryan Morris

All the best to you and yours for 2012. Neil and I want to wish everyone following AgileSoC a very Happy New Year! AgileSoC has grown tremendously over the past year, and we’ve received many appreciative and insightful comments about … Continue reading →

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TDD for RTL

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Bryan Morris

In this (very late) post, I attempt a look at why RTL designers should use Test Driven Development (TDD) to create each of their modules. For this topic espeically, I’d like to hear your experiences with TDD, whether you think TDD … Continue reading →

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TDD: Verification with SVUnit

Posted on November 29, 2011 by Bryan Morris

Introduction In my last posting, I gave a brief overivew of the SVUnit framework, and it’s usage model. This post will look at how to use this framework in your workflow: how it can be integrated into your existing verification … Continue reading →

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Test Driven Development: Introducing the SVUnit Framework

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Bryan Morris

Up until now, we’d been discussing the justification of using TDD in an ASIC development flow.   Hopefully, we’ve convinced you to try it.  In this post we’ll introduce a TDD framework that has been developed for SystemVerilog to help you use this … Continue reading →

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Hey Buddy, Can You Spare a Keyboard

Posted on September 25, 2011 by Bryan Morris

Whenever I describe the agile practice of pair programming I usually get the same general reaction,which is something like “I don’t think I’d like to do that”. My usual attempt to convince someone that it could be an interesting tool … Continue reading →

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Emacs, org-mode, Kanban, Pomodoro… Oh my…

Posted on August 8, 2011 by Bryan Morris

This post is slightly off-topic of our usual AgileSoC theme; instead it is aimed at you Emacs folks who use org-mode and have been asking yourself “How can I combine Kanban and org-mode?”  Here’s how I did it.  It’s not rocket … Continue reading →

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Agile Requirements: Are We There Yet? Part 1 of [Not Sure Yet]

Posted on July 14, 2011 by Bryan Morris

I’m at the start of a new project. We’re currently determining what features are needed in the end-product. This has led to me to thinking a lot lately about how to capture, prioritize and track the completion of these requirements … Continue reading →

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