The relentless increase in the number of transistors integrated on a single chip continues to take its toll on verification teams. Market pressures squeeze product ...

Over 50 engineers and engineering managers were surveyed at DAC 2009 by Jasper Design Automation as part of a market research and analysis program examining how designers use formal verification ...

Contemporary system-on-chip (SoC) design demands the use of pre-existing intellectual property (IP). It is simply not practical to develop many millions of gates of new logic from scratch while ...

Formal verification associated with assertions is a well known approach to functional verification of SoC digital circuits. This technique bears several advantages over dynamic-based solutions, but ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...

The first time I came into contact with the concepts of a digital hardware description language (HDL) and digital logic simulation, I inherently understood how it all “worked.” The idea that the ...

However, in this article, I will limit myself to the top five important factors to remember about formal verification. 1. There are many types of formal verification. All are useful. When I talk about ...

Across all sorts of networks today – in enterprises large and small, service providers, government agencies, and beyond – there is a transformation towards a software-driven architecture. Where ...