System Verilog Assertions and Functional Coverage

This third edition is a practical handbook for engineers who want to verify chip designs with SystemVerilog. It walks through assertion-based verification and functional coverage together, presenting the methods as one workflow. Its goal is to help readers build checkers that catch elusive defects, trace each failure back to its origin, and model intricate timing behavior in a manageable way.

The author, who has worked as a practitioner in ASIC, SoC, CPU and FPGA design and verification, teaches each idea in small steps. Every concept comes with approachable examples, sample simulation logs, and cases drawn from real projects. The aim is to help readers design sophisticated checkers and thorough coverage models, and to answer the question of whether a design has been verified completely.

This update reflects the IEEE-1800 (2012) Language Reference Manual, including the additional operators and features it introduced. The explanations of concurrent assertions and their operators have been expanded with more examples and figures. The book covers the full syntax and semantics of that standard for both assertions and functional coverage, and it explains the purpose and use of each methodology.

Six hands-on labs let readers apply what they have learned. The book suits engineers and students who work on hardware design or verification and want a structured route into SystemVerilog assertions and coverage.