Overview

Questa Inspect

Find bugs early in the design! Questa Inspect automatically generates properties to support an ever-growing variety of static and dynamic checks such as dead code analysis, finite state machine deadlock, combinatorial loops, and liveness; covering common design errors and unimagined corner cases.


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Key features

The designers’ verification dilemma

SVA and PSL are time-consuming. The Questa Inspect app makes it easy to triage bugs that would otherwise require a lot of time and effort to eliminate, such as state-machine deadlock and livelock, arithmetic overflow, and out-of-range memory indexing.

Easy-to-use

Push-button bug hunting

  • No knowledge of formal or ABV is required!
  • Automatic assertion creation eliminates the need to write assertions
  • Leverages the common Questa Visualizer Debug Environment

Improve design quality

Finds bugs early in the design cycle

  • Start verifying as soon as RTL code is written or changed
  • No testbench or assertions are necessary!
  • Explores sequential design behavior to find corner-case bugs that will be missed by lint
  • Find common functional design issues in registers, FSMs, buses, and memories
  • High signal-to-noise ratio–less likely to miss “real” issues in the noise

Automatic detection of common RTL coding errors

Finite state machine deadlock

Questa Inspect is a fully-automatic formal bug hunting app that finds bugs due to common RTL coding errors. Inspect makes it possible to eliminate a wide range of bugs with low effort. Neither a testbench nor assertions are required to be available, making it possible to start formally verifying designs as soon as the RTL code is written.

Formal Verification

Featured white papers

Formal verification

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