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All simulation-based verification suffers from the issue that you can never run enough test vectors to exhaustively test the whole design, or even any significant part of a complex design. One way to address this issue is using constrained random stimulus. The use of random stimulus brings two very significant benefits. Firstly, random stimulus is great for uncovering unexpected bugs, because given enough time and resources it can allow the entire state space of the design to be explored free from the selective biases of a human test writer. Secondly, random stimulus allows compute resources to be maximally utilised by running parallel compute farms and overnight runs. Of course, pure random stimulus would be nonsensical, so adding constraints to make random stimulus legal is an important part of the verification process, and is explicitly supported by SystemVerilog and UVM
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