Sunburst Design - Verilog & SystemVerilog Training

04/15/2025

My award-winning UVM-topic paper from SNUG-SV 2025, entitled, "uvmtb_template Files – An Efficient & Rapid Way To Create UVM Testbenches" is now posted to the sunburst-design.com/papers website. ,

Improve your Verilog, SystemVerilog, Verilog Synthesis design and verification skills with expert and advanced training from Cliff Cummings of Sunburst Design, Inc.

01/02/2024

Start the New Year Right! – Join Cliff Cummings for UVM Training
(taught as 6-Half-Days), January 4-11, 2024
Paradigm Works is sponsoring open enrollment UVM Verification training by renown UVM trainer, presenter and author, Cliff Cummings. The training is offered at reasonable times for anyone from the U.S. to India. Lecture each day will last about 3 hours but Cliff is setting aside 4 hours for lecture each day in anticipation of large audiences and lots of questions. Cliff will also set aside 1 hour before class and 1+ hours after class to help with labs and answer questions. For more information about the training course and pricing, visit the webpage:

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03/17/2023

I will be presenting a paper at SNUG on Wednesday afternoon, March 30th. The paper explains how UVM verification engineers can use the uvm_resource_db API to simplify the creation of Virtual Sequences. The paper title is, "UVM Virtual Sequences The Easy Way (Not the Hard Way … or the Other Hard Way!)" I hope to see my friends and colleagues at SNUG.

02/23/2023

I will be presenting a paper at DVCon next Tuesday morning. The paper explains why UVM verification engineers should be using the uvm_resource_db API and abandon the uvm_config_db API. We estimate that for the past ten years, more than 90% of UVM Verification Engineers, myself included, have been using the wrong resources API. Come see why.

06/12/2022

Sunburst Design - 2-Day SystemVerilog Fundamentals Training
(taught as 4-Half-Days), June 20-23, 2022
Paradigm Works is sponsoring open enrollment SystemVerilog training by renown SystemVerilog trainer, presenter and author, Cliff Cummings. The training is offered at reasonable times for anyone from the U.S. East Coast to India. Lecture each day will last about 3 hours but Cliff is setting aside 4 hours for lecture each day in anticipation of large audiences and lots of questions. Cliff will also set aside 1 hour before class and 1+ hours after class to help with labs and answer questions. For more information about the training course and pricing, visit the webpage:
www.sunburst-design.com/systemverilog_training_schedule

06/12/2022

Sunburst Design - 3-Day UVM Verification Training
(taught as 6-Half-Days), June 27-30 and July 6-7, 2022
Paradigm Works is sponsoring open enrollment UVM Verification training by renown UVM trainer, presenter and author, Cliff Cummings. The training is offered at reasonable times for anyone from the U.S. East Coast to India. Lecture each day will last about 3 hours but Cliff is setting aside 4 hours for lecture each day in anticipation of large audiences and lots of questions. Cliff will also set aside 1 hour before class and 1+ hours after class to help with labs and answer questions. For more information about the training course and pricing, visit the webpage:
www.sunburst-design.com/uvm_training_schedule

01/17/2022

Short-notice: SystemVerilog, CDC & UVM expert, Cliff Cummings will personally teach WebEx classes: 2-day SystemVerilog Fundamentals training class, Thu-Fri of this week, Jan 20-21. 1-day CDC & FIFO Design Techniques, Mon, Jan 24. 3-day UVM Training next Tue-Thu, Jan 25-27. These will likely be small classes with lots of personal attention. See details on the www.sunburst-design.com web page.

Improve your Verilog, SystemVerilog, Verilog Synthesis design and verification skills with expert and advanced training from Cliff Cummings of Sunburst Design, Inc.

02/13/2020

DVClub in Toronto, Ontario - I look forward to speaking about "SystemVerilog Assertions - Bindfiles & Best Known Practices for Simple SVA Usage" at this free event next Friday, February 21st, and hope to see many high tech friends in attendance.
My friend and colleague, Neil Johnson from Mentor, A Seimens Business, will give the first presentation on "Remain Agile Under Pressure with Test-Driven Development"
Registration (did I say free?) can be made at this website:

Please join us for DVClub Toronto's 2020 kickoff event on February 21, 2020 at the Sheraton Parkway Toronto North Hotel & Suites. We are pleased to have two guest speakers at this even: Neil Johnson, a longtime verification engineer at Mentor, a Siemens Business, and Cliff Cummings, President of Sun...

10/15/2019

I will be speaking about Virtual Sequences at DVClub-Boston, this Friday, Oct, 18 - See you there!

09/24/2019

UVM Virtual Sequencers
Janick Bergeron and I co-authored a paper on Virtual Sequencers and Virtual Sequences at DVCon 2016. After the conference I wanted to add a few extra techniques to the paper. I finally have made the updates and have put the paper out on the sunburst-design.com/papers web page for download.

Improve your Verilog, SystemVerilog, Verilog Synthesis design and verification skills with expert and advanced training from Cliff Cummings of Sunburst Design, Inc.

06/10/2019

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DVClub in Portland, OR - I look forward to speaking about UVM Analysis Port Details at this event next Thursday and hope to see many high tech friends in attendance.

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04/08/2019

Sunburst Design - SystemVerilog & UVM Training, May 13-17, 2019, by Cliff Cummings, for engineers who do not live in the Bay Area. For the first time, Cliff Cummings will offer SV & UVM training in Provo, UT, where hotels costs are only about 25%-40% of hotels in the Santa Clara area. Enrollment costs are also lower since Cliff does not incur travel expenses. Please visit the following website for details: