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Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Posted Dec 13, 2011, by Mark Olen

Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen the pressure put on referees and umpires.  They have to make split-second decisions in real-time, having viewed ultra-high-speed action just a single time.  But watching at home on television, we get the luxury of viewing multiple replays of events in question … Read More

Tags: Verification, testbench, Cortex, Functional Verification, ARM, SoC Level Verification, Software as a Testbench, Simulation, SoC

Combining Intelligent Testbench Automation with Constrained Random Testing

Posted Jul 26, 2011, by Mark Olen

Who Doesn’t Like Faster? In my last blog post I introduced new technology called Intelligent Testbench Automation (“iTBA”).  It’s generating lots of interest in the industry because just like constrained random testing (“CRT”), it can generate tons of tests for functional verification.  But it has unique efficiencies that allow you to achieve coverage 10X to 100X … Read More

Tags: Functional Verification, Intelligent Testbench Automation, Constrained Random Test, testbench, Verification, iTBA, Simulation

Intelligent Testbench Automation Delivers 10X to 100X Faster Functional Verification

Posted Jun 28, 2011, by Mark Olen

iTBA Introduction If you’ve been to DAC or DVCon during the past couple of years, you’ve probably at least heard of something new called “Intelligent Testbench Automation”.  Well, it’s actually not really all that new, as the underlying principles have been used in compiler testing and some types of software testing for the past three decades, but its application to electronic design verification is … Read More

Tags: Functional Verification, Intelligent Testbench Automation, functional coverage, Verification, Verification Academy, Simulation, testbench

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

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Posted Jun 24, 2011, by Tom Fitzpatrick

Well, another DAC is behind us, and you know what that means. That’s right, the super-sized DAC issue of Verification Horizons is now available online. You can download the full issue or individual articles from the Verification Horizons tab at Verification Academy. Over the next few days, I’ll be highlighting some of the articles to give you a taste of the great content available directly … Read More

Tags: UVM, Verification Academy, Functional Verification, Verification Horizons

User-2-User’s Functional Verification Track

Posted Apr 21, 2011, by Dennis Brophy

User Adoption of OVM Featured; Views on UVM Discussed The Mentor Graphics user group meeting, User-2-User, in Santa Clara is all set.  U2U will be held on 26 April 2011 at the Santa Clara Marriott and one of the tracks will feature functional verification after keynote presentations by Mentor’s CEO, Wally Rhines and Xilinx’s CTO, Ivo Bolsens. Registration for the event is open and is fee-free.  U2U … Read More

Tags: Functional Verification, OVM, Accellera, UVM, VIP, Standards, U2U

Part 7: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Posted Apr 20, 2011, by Harry Foster

Testbench Characteristics and Simulation Strategies (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 (Part 6 click here), I focused on some of the 2010 Wilson Research Group findings related to testbench characteristics and simulation … Read More

Tags: Simulation, testbench, Functional Verification, Verification

Part 6: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Posted Apr 18, 2011, by Harry Foster

Testbench Characteristics and Simulation Strategies This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs that present the highlights from the 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (for background on the study, click here). In my previous blog (click here), I focused on the controversial topic of effort spent in verification. In this blog, I focus on some of the 2010 Wilson Research … Read More

Tags: Simulation, testbench, Functional Verification, Verification, Wilson Research Group Study

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

Part 4: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Posted Apr 3, 2011, by Harry Foster

  Effort Spent On Verification This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights from the 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). In my previous blog (click here), I focused on design and verification reuse trends. In this blog, I focus on the controversial topic of amount of effort spent in verification. I have been on the technical program … Read More

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