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IEEE Standard for SystemVerilog—
Unified Hardware Design,
Specification, and Verification
Language
IEEE Computer Society
Developed by the
Design Automation Standards Committee
IEEE Std 1800™-2023
(Revision of IEEE Std 1800-2017)
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IEEE Std 1800™-2023
(Revision of IEEE Std 1800-2017)
IEEE Standard for SystemVerilog—
Unified Hardware Design,
Specification, and Verification
Language
Developed by the
Design Automation Standards Committee
of the
IEEE Computer Society
Approved 6 December 2023
IEEE SA Standards Board
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Abstract: The definition of the language syntax and semantics for SystemVerilog, which is a unified
hardware design, specification, and verification language, is provided. This standard includes
support for modeling hardware at the behavioral, register transfer level (RTL), and gate-level
abstraction levels, and for writing testbenches using coverage, assertions, object-oriented
programming, and constrained random verification. The standard also provides application
programming interfaces (APIs) to foreign programming languages.
Keywords: assertions, design automation, design verification, hardware description language,
HDL, HDVL, IEEE Std 1800
™, PLI, programming language interface, SystemVerilog, Verilog
®
, VPI
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