https://docs.cocotb.org/en/latest/index.html
What is cocotb?
cocotb is a COroutine based COsimulation TestBench environment for verifying VHDL and SystemVerilog RTL using Python.
cocotb is completely free, open source (under the BSD License) and hosted on GitHub.
cocotb requires a simulator to simulate the HDL design and has been used with a variety of simulators on Linux, Windows and macOS. Please check the Simulator Support page for specifics.
A (possibly older) version of cocotb can be used live in a web browser on EDA Playground.
How is cocotb different?
cocotb encourages the same philosophy of design re-use and randomized testing as UVM, however is implemented in Python.
With cocotb, VHDL or SystemVerilog are normally only used for the design itself, not the testbench.
cocotb has built-in support for integrating with continuous integration systems, such as Jenkins, GitLab, etc. through standardized, machine-readable test reporting formats.
cocotb was specifically designed to lower the overhead of creating a test.
cocotb automatically discovers tests so that no additional step is required to add a test to a regression.
All verification is done using Python which has various advantages over using SystemVerilog or VHDL for verification:
Writing Python is fast - it’s a very productive language.
It’s easy to interface to other languages from Python.
Python has a huge library of existing code to re-use.
Python is interpreted - tests can be edited and re-run without having to recompile the design or exit the simulator GUI.
Python is popular - far more engineers know Python than SystemVerilog or VHDL. |
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