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Day 6: Testbenches & AI-Assisted Verification

Week 2 · Session 6 of 16

🤖 AI Verification 🔧 AI Literacy

Pre-Class Slide Decks

Work through the slide decks below to prepare for this session. Each deck's focus is summarized so you can see what's ahead at a glance.

Segment 1: Testbench Anatomy

We've been running testbenches all week. Today we start writing them.

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Segment 2: Self Checking Testbenches

The PASS/FAIL pattern you've been reading all week, from the inside.

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Segment 3: Tasks For Organization

Refactoring lesson: how to turn sprawling stimulus-and-check into clean, readable, maintainable test cases.

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Segment 4: File Driven Testing

Scaling up — test vectors in external files so your testbench can run thousands of cases.

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Lecture Code Examples

Code shown during the pre-class video. Each example is a runnable

subdirectory with its own Makefile (make sim, make stat, make prog).

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