Advanced VHDL for Verification

Title: Advanced VHDL for Verification
Location: www.cvcblr.com
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Description: Advanced VHDL techniques for Functional Verification. For a close-door customer, not a public class.
Start Date: 2009-12-2
End Date: 2009-12-3

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