Functional Verification

Conquer your growing verification challenges.

Vista, Questa and VeloceThe Mentor Graphics Functional Verification platforms-Vista, Questa and Veloce-deliver a high-productivity verification flow, optimized to your requirements. Tightly integrated to provide seamless transitions from ESL to emulation, transactions to transistors, with leading support for open, industry standards, these platforms help you conquer growing verification challenges, achieve schedule predictability and ensure rapid verification closure.

Mentor Graphics Training

We have training courses available for Verification engineers in our training centers around the world, online, or at your site.

Questa Covercheck: An Automated Code Coverage Closure Solution

White Paper: This white paper explores the debugging aspect of code coverage closure, and how Questa CoverCheck’s unique ability of formal technology can automatically generate simulation exclusion files to improve... View White Paper

Verification Management Eases Those Re-spin Worries

White Paper: When verification is not under control, project schedules slip, quality is jeopardized and the risk of re-spins soars. These less-than-stellar outcomes seem to be happening more and more often. Firsttime... View White Paper

Learn More About Functional Verification

Verification Horizons Blog

Updates on concepts, values, standards, methodologies and examples to assist with the understanding of what advanced functional verification technologies can do and how to most effectively apply them. Hear from Dennis Brophy, Harry Foster, Tom Fitzpatrick and others. View All Posts

Verification Horizons Newsletter

Provides in-depth articles and practical knowledge about state-of-the-art functional verification techniques and technology. Verification Horizons

Transforming Verification On Demand Seminar Series

The complexity of SoCs is transforming functional verification, forcing the integration of multiple technologies into a flexible, open flow that integrates a broad arsenal of verification solutions. We have created a series of online technology seminars to help you transform your verification process.

Questa Formal's AutoCheck - The Push-Button Way to Find Bugs

Leveraging Questa Verification IP to Achieve More Verification with Less Effort

Verifying Complex SoC Designs with Questa Codelink

OVM/UVM

Learn from the contributing authors of the UVM/OVM Online Cookbook. This series of online seminars will show you how to create the pieces you need and integrate them to solve your particular verification problem. Watch and Learn

In The Press

Mentor Graphics New Questa Verification Platform Functionality Drives Verification Throughput

WILSONVILLE, Ore., February 20, 2013—Mentor Graphics Corp. today announced the 10.2 release of the Questa® functional verification platform, a tightly integrated and extensible... View News Article

Industry Segments

Mentor Graphic's verification solutions are used across multiple industry segments and across all design and verification activities from design and testbench creation to design analysis, simulation, and management.

Semiconductor & IP

  • Processors, DSP
  • Graphics Chips/Cores
  • Interface Controllers
  • Switching Fabric
  • Comm. Controllers
  • Memory Systems
  • Audio/Video Codecs
  • Storage Processors

Networking/Data Communication

  • Local Area Networking
  • Optical Communications
  • Storage Solutions
  • Broadband Solutions
  • Switches/Routers
  • Base Stations
  • VOIP Solutions
  • Storage Processors

Consumer Electronics

  • Mobile Phones
  • Personal Computers
  • Portable Multimedia
  • Digital/Mobile TV
  • Set Top Boxes
  • Still/Video Cameras
  • Home Networking
  • GPS Systems

Safety/Mission Critical

  • Airplane Electronics
  • Automotive Control
  • Medical Control
  • Satellite Systems
  • Mil/Aero Solutions
  • Industrial Electronics

White Papers

Mentor Graphics has a large library of in-depth technical papers that you can download at your leisure. View FV White Papers

FPGA Verification with Assertions: Why Bother? A Painless and Easy Step-by-Step Approach to Adopting Assertions

This paper provides a practical, easy, step-by- step set of instructions on how to add assertions to your RTL design. By following the simple guidelines provided in this paper you will benefit by cutting... View White Paper

Unifying Hardware-Assisted Verification and Validation Using UVM and Emulation

Successful approaches to improve verification productivity are to increase the speed of verification and begin validating software/hardware integration very early in the design process. Historically, verification... View White Paper

Questa Covercheck: An Automated Code Coverage Closure Solution

This white paper explores the debugging aspect of code coverage closure, and how Questa CoverCheck’s unique ability of formal technology can automatically generate simulation exclusion files to improve... View White Paper

Verification Horizons Blog

Part 1: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Those nasty wire’s and reg’s in Verilog

Getting AMP’ed Up on the IEEE Low-Power Standard

Prologue: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Even More UVM Debug in Questa 10.2

MultiMedia

Our rich set of recorded webinars and product demonstrations can help you be more successful with our products. Multimedia

Advanced UVM Debugging

The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Cookbook Recipes Beyond UVM: Effectively Modeling and Analyzing Coverage

News and Press

Solutions

Low Power Solutions

The Unified Power Format (UPF) provides the backbone to our low power technologies so engineers can define power based architectures, create power aware strategies, and verify low power designs throughout the TLM to GDSII flow. Low Power Solutions