Forastero: cocotb testbenches with batteries included (Peter Birch)

Forastero is a Python library that builds on top of cocotb adding standard components like drivers, monitors, and scoreboards but without bringing the full weight of a UVM environment. While in some ways a spiritual successor to cocotb-bus, Forastero goes further and provides mechanisms for generating complex random stimulus. In this talk I'll present how you can use Forastero to quickly construct a testbench around a DUT, driving and monitoring multiple interfaces, and producing complex stimulus patterns. Forastero is fully open source and comes with both documentation and examples. It can be found on GitHub at github.com/Intuity/forastero

[@bannanarepublictv4865]

So What are the key advantages over cocotb-bus?

[@peterbirch3717]

Hi - I’m the presenter in the video above! Forastero is inspired by cocotb-bus but is more actively maintained and adds a more robust framework for interaction of monitors with the scoreboard along with sequencing interactions with the DUT across many different drivers and monitors.

[@JonahFoley]

Interesting tool! Lots of questions regarding cocotb-bus yet this tool seems different in that it expects the user to define the drivers and monitors etc. Do you intend to provide common bus functionalities within Forastero in the future? @peterbirch3717