CRAFT Overlay — D12 — SystemVerilog for Design¶

Beyond the scope of the Barcelona edition — self-study

SystemVerilog is not a scheduled day in the Barcelona abroad edition. This overlay is kept as an optional resource in the Keep Going self-study track. Work through it on your own using the baseline D13 materials and the optional V13 video.

🌍 Contextualize¶

"SystemVerilog is what you'll write in your first hardware job. Every major EDA tool, every ASIC flow, every FPGA vendor supports it. Today you upgrade your toolkit."

⚠️ Reframe¶

"If You're Thinking Like a Programmer: SV is a different language I have to learn from scratch. Reframe: SV is Verilog with guardrails. always_ff doesn't change what the hardware does — it catches mistakes sooner. logic replaces both wire and reg and eliminates a whole class of confusion."

🔑 Key Insight¶

"always_comb and always_ff are not just style — they're intent declarations. The tool checks that your code matches your intent. A latch in always_comb is an error, not a warning."

🤖 Check the Machine¶

"Refactor your traffic light FSM to SystemVerilog. Then prompt AI to refactor a different module. Compare: did the AI use enum for states? Did it add default cases? Did it use always_ff correctly?"

🔗 Transfer¶

"Next in the self-study track: SV for verification — assertions, coverage, and the tools that tell you when you're done testing."

Back to Barcelona Day Plan View Slides Baseline D13 Materials

This overlay supplements the baseline D13 daily plan (SystemVerilog). All lab exercises and lecture content come from the baseline D13 materials.