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Verification Academy Adds Major New Technical Resource The Verification Academy adds another major methodology cookbook to focus on effective coverage adoption.  The Coverage Cookbook describes the different types of coverage that are available to track your verification process progress, how to create a functional coverage model from a specification, and provides examples to implement functional … Read More

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Live & In-Person at DAC 2012! Verification Academy, the brain child of Dr. Harry Foster, Chief Verification Scientist at Mentor Graphics, was live from the Design Automation Conference tradeshow floor this year.  Harry is pictured to the right giving an update on his popular verification survey from the DAC tradeshow floor. The Verification Academy, predominantly a web-based resource is a popular … Read More

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As a marketing guy, spending time with real engineers is always a welcome sanity check. Sometimes it’s easy to abstract a bit too much and forget some of the practical realities of the verification process. A few of my recent sanity-check moments have occurred around the concept of stimulus-coverage closure. In a coverage-driven verification flow that uses constrained-random stimulus, stimulus coverage … Read More

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