Why is this an issue?

Sharing some naming conventions is a key point to make it possible for a team to efficiently collaborate. This rule allows to check that all module instance names match a provided regular expression.

How to fix it

Code examples

Noncompliant code example

With default regular expression ^i_[a-z0-9_]+:

module top;
  dream my_dream();
endmodule

module dream;
endmodule

Compliant solution

With default regular expression ^i_[a-z0-9_]+:

module top;
  dream i_dream();
endmodule

module dream;
endmodule