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SystemVerilog Language Overview

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This chapter introduces some important SystemVerilog features that are often needed for writing assertions, or used in conjunction with assertions to support other tasks.

The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

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    SystemVerilog LRM suggests that the order of execution for final procedures be deterministic for a tool.

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Cerny, E., Dudani, S., Havlicek, J., Korchemny, D. (2015). SystemVerilog Language Overview. In: SVA: The Power of Assertions in SystemVerilog. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07139-8_2

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