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Part 9: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Posted Jun 26, 2011, by Harry Foster

Verification Techniques & Technologies Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights from the 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (for a background on the study, click here). In my previous blog (Part 8 click here), I focused on some of the 2010 Wilson Research Group findings related to design and verification language trends. … Read More

Tags: Simulation, Emulation, testbench, Functional Verification, Formal Verification

Part 5: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Posted Apr 4, 2011, by Harry Foster

  Effort Spent On Verification (Continued) This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights from the 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (for a background on the study, click here). In my previous blog (click here), I focused on the controversial topic of effort spent in verification. This blog continues this discussion. I stated in my previous … Read More

Tags: Functional Verification, Verification, Formal Verification

Making formal property checking easy to use

Posted Jul 26, 2010, by Ping Yeung

For years one of the objectives in EDA has been to make formal property checking easy to use and its results easy to understand. With the Automatic formal check feature in the June release of the 0-In Formal tool version 3.0, I think we have made significant progress in this area. The feature, which predefines a set of assertion rules to look for design issues automatically, makes formal technology … Read More

Tags: automatic formal check, formal property checking, Assertion-Based Verification, SVA, Formal Verification, functional coverage

Redefining Verification Performance (Part 1)

Posted Jul 25, 2010, by Harry Foster

What does the word performance mean to you? Speed? Well, obviously speed is an important characteristic. Yet, if the team is running in the wrong direction, it really doesn’t matter how fast they are going. How about accomplishment? After all, we do assess an employee’s or project team’s accomplishments using a process we refer to as a performance review. What about efficiency, which is a ratio comparing … Read More

Tags: Formal Verification, Functional Verification, Add new tag, Simulation