Out-of-the-box UVM experience with modern day EDA tools
It surprises me often how many young engineers (read "fresh graduates/Recent College Graduates") struggle when it comes to the UNIX/GCC/Makefiles etc. I still recall our old IIT days when we did Yahoo/Altavista (Google wasn't around back in 1996) search to resolve most of such issues and of-course use some common sense. Coming to the recent experience, as we were preparing for our recent demo at SNUG India 2013 DCE booth, I asked some of our young team members to run few UVM tests. When it came to the 11th hour preparations I got several error reports from these young engineers with various errors related to gcc/PATH etc. In our regular UVM training sessions the Makefiles exist so not much challenge in this regard. But when you ask these folks to create Makefile on their own to run UVM, things start getting interesting. A recent error message showed to me was: recompiling module apb_subsystem_top All of 30 modules done g++ -w -pipe -O -I/home/student/tools/eda/synops...