SystemVerilog was developed as an extension to the widely used Verilog hardware description language. In addition to new design constructs that bring the language to a higher level of abstraction, it ...

[Mark] starts a post from a bit ago with: “… maybe you have also heard that SystemVerilog is simply an extension of Verilog, focused on testing and verification.” This is both true and false, ...

In an EDA Views column posted to EEdesign April 4, 2003, Mitch Weaver of Cadence Design Systems wrote of the need to extend the Verilog standard to support ever-increasing design sizes. Mr. Weaver ...