FPGA World 2024: Real-World Experiences with VUnit - Session 3

This is the third and final video post showcasing VUnit presentations from last year’s FPGA World. In this presentation, Alberto Perro, experimental physicist at the LHCb Experiment at CERN, presents 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.

The team initially faced challenges with a few long-running testbenches, each relying on custom TCL scripts tied to specific simulators with limited licenses. By adopting VUnit, the team transformed their workflow—replacing complex TCL scripts with intuitive Python scripts, accelerating simulations through VUnit’s multi-threaded approach, and enabling seamless transitions between commercial and open-source simulators using VUnit's vendor-agnostic scripting APIs.

You can watch the full presentation here.