SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage Guide to Language,
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SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage Guide to Language, Methodology and Applications Second Edition
SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage
Ashok B. Mehta
SystemVerilog Assertions and Functional Coverage Guide to Language, Methodology and Applications Second Edition
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Ashok B. Mehta Los Gatos, CA USA
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To My dear wife Ashraf Zahedi and My dear parents Rukshamani and Biren Mehta
Foreword
Louis H. Sullivan, an American architect, considered the father of the modern skyscraper, and mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, coined the phrase ‘form follows function.’ The actual quote is ‘form ever follows function’ which is a bit more poetic and assertive than the version that has found its way into the common vernacular. He wrote those words in an article written for Lippincott’s Magazine #57 published in March 1896. Here is the passage in that article that contains the famous quote: “Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his light or the open apple-blossom, then toiling work horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds— over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change, form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies, in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman—of all true manifestation
