Exhaustive functional coverage promises to revolutionize the design of ICs and other digital systems. Exhaustive coverage is now a genuine possibility because the scientific and mathematical ...

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will be the culmination of dozens of highly complex systems, incorporating state-of-the-art technologies in electronics hardware, sensors, software, and more. Conceiving and ...

CUPERTINO, Calif.----Nov. 8, 1999-- IKOS Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:IKOS), a leading provider of design verification solutions, today announced its newest fast functional verification product, the ARES(TM) ...

System-on-a-chip (SoC) functional verification involves integrating multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks. Accordingly, understanding how to define, measure, correlate, and analyze appropriate IP ...

This article formalizes the concept of best possible verification quality — completeness — and describes a methodology, field-proven on many complex module and intellectual property (IP) designs, that ...

A new verification strategy used to validate an IP implementing the CAN protocol is introduced. The proposed strategy is a result of the analysis of the pros and cons of some known methodologies, ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...

Programmable SoCs are shaping up to be an important part of the semiconductor landscape, if they can overcome the verification challenges. If there’s one thing certain in chip development, it’s that ...

FPGA engineers are all doing functional verification using manual processes but growing system comlexity is the issue. Changing tools and methodologies may seem daunting, but there is a way to break ...

With the addition of a standard assertion-language link, the 360 Module Verifier (360 MV), a functional verification environment, is equipped to fully leverage both SystemVerilog assertions and Open ...