33.15.15 UVM Browser View

The UVM Browser View is an intuitive entry point for exploring the components of a UVM-based or eRM-based verification environment.

It allows you to explore UVM-based types grouped by categories, like agents, monitors, BFMs, drivers or sequences and easily inspect the UVM flow specific API, like sub-instances, overridden phases or TLM ports.

Open the view from menu Window > Show View > Other... > DVT > UVM Browser.

You can use CamelCase or Simple Regex to locate a specific element.

Toolbar
	Prepend Package Name	Prepend the enclosing package name to the name of each element, useful when you explore for example all agents across packages.
	Group By Package	Group categories by package. You may chose to see for example all agents across packages or to explore all categories in a specific package.

The top panel presents all the UVM-based structs and units defined in your verification environment. For convenience they are grouped by categories like agents or monitors.

The inheritance hierarchy between elements is shown up to the UVM base type and down to when subtypes.

The categories and their corresponding base types are the following:

Category	Base type	Methodology
Agents	uvm_agent	UVM e
Agent Configs	uvm_agent_config	UVM e
BFMs	uvm_bfm	UVM e
Collectors	uvm_collector	UVM e
Config Params	uvm_config_params	UVM e
Drivers	any_sequence_driver	eRM
Envs	any_env / uvm_env	eRM / UVM e
Env Configs	uvm_env_config	UVM e
Items	any_sequence_item	eRM
Memories	vr_ad_mem	vr_ad
Monitors	uvm_monitor	UVM e
Ports	any_port	eRM
Registers	vr_ad_reg	vr_ad
Register Files	vr_ad_reg_file	vr_ad
Register Maps	vr_ad_map	vr_ad
Scoreboards	uvm_scoreboard	UVM e
Sequences	any_sequence	eRM
Signal Maps	uvm_signal_map	UVM e
Virtual Drivers	any_sequence_driver (of a virtual sequence)	eRM
Virtual Sequences	any_sequence (no item)	eRM
Phases	tf_phase_t	UVM e
Phase domains	tf_domain_t	UVM e

The bottom Members Panel panel displays members of the type selected in the top panel. You can toggle the UVM Members Mode on/off using the button.

In UVM Members Mode it displays the following members:

All unit instances
Fields whose type is or inherits from one of the base types defined in the table above
Fields whose type is or inherits from a type defined in the uvm_e, uvm_scbd and vr_ad libraries
Fields whose type is or inherits from uvm_accel_input_pipe_proxy or uvm_accel_output_pipe_proxy
Extensions of fields, events and methods introduced by calls to macros defined in the uvm_e, uvm_scbd and vr_ad libraries
Extensions of UVM Scoreboard Data Transformation methods
Extensions of UVM Scoreboard Match Process Customization methods
Extensions of e Language Phases and Predefined Methods, like run(), connnect_pointers(), pre and post_generate() etc.
Extensions of body(), pre_body() and post_body() methods of any_sequence

When the UVM Members Mode is off, the Members Panel behaves exactly like the Members Panel of the Type Hierarchy View.