FPGA World 2024: Real-World Experiences with VUnit

Tomorrow marks the third consecutive VUnit user conference at FPGA World in Stockholm. As in previous years, our goal is to cultivate an open and collaborative dialogue, where users can share their real-world experiences, challenges, and successes with VUnit. Attendees will gain valuable insights into how others have optimized their verification processes, the obstacles they've encountered, and how VUnit can adapt to meet evolving needs. We strongly encourage everyone to actively participate in the discussions, offering feedback, learning from peers, and contributing to the continuous improvement of VUnit.

This year, we've a diverse lineup of presenters that also bring a more international perspective to the conference:

Presentation 1: Accelerating FPGA Development: Employing VUnit in our Workflow

Presenter:? Tiago Gomes,? Lead FPGA/SoC Design and Verification Engineer at Enclustra, Switzerland??

Tiago will share Enclustra's journey with VUnit and how it enabled them to streamline their development cycle for greater efficiency. He will also discuss the challenges they encountered along the way, areas where VUnit can be improved, and ideas on what they can contribute back to the community.

Presentation 2: Simplifying Viewing Waveforms from Remote VUnit Runs

Presenter:?Oscar Gustafsson, Associate Professor at Link?pings University, Sweden

Oscar will introduce Surfer, a modern open-source waveform viewer developed by his research group, and demonstrate how it integrates with VUnit. His presentation will focus on the challenges of viewing waveforms in distributed environments, where remote continuous integration servers generate large volumes of waveform data.

Presentation 3: Integration of Modern Validation and Verification Methodologies in the LHCb Gateware Development Framework

Presenter:?Alberto Perro, Experimental Physicist at the LHCb Experiment at CERN

Alberto will present an in-depth case study on how VUnit, along with other open-source tools, has been utilized in the development of a highly complex, large-scale FPGA system for the Large Hadron Collider beauty (LHCb) experiment.

For those unable to attend in person, recordings will be made available after the conference. Additionally, we may include extra presentations, as we had more presenters than available slots this year.