Synopsys is giving VMM users an early holiday gift with a new release of the VMM!  And again, like the preceding 1.0.1 release, they just dropped the release with no announcement. (Is anyone getting email updates from the vmmcentral.org site?)

I’m impressed that the folks in marketing over at Synopsys resisted the (misguided) temptation to call this 2.0 to remain at parity with the OVM release numbers.

And I see that the included documentation has dramatically improved…  but I couldn’t help myself:

http://www.intelligentdv.com/documents/index.html#vmmdox

Skimming the release notes for things that I care about I see:

• Addition of JL’s multi-stream scenario generator
• base class for testcases (finally!) – I implemented one ages ago based on a tip in Janick’s own (green) book. If it works like mine you’ll find that going from test run to test run will take much less time.
• shortcut MACROS – for the new and the weak
• SQL database interface class (Is this new? I don’t remember this one, and there’s no mention in the release notes.)