The key rule for chip design and verification is that bugs must be found and fixed as early in the development process as possible. It is often said that catching a bug at each successive project ...

The practice of semiconductor verification has changed substantially over the years, and will continue to do so. The skillset needed for functional verification 20 years ago is hardly recognizable as ...

The huge undertaking of verifying a system-on-chip (SoC) design has challenged engineers for more than 20 years –– the amount of time spent on it hasn’t varied much from between 50-70% of the entire ...

Evolving Verification Environments It was standard practice in the early days of hardware design to design a chip and then verify it. However this methodology started to break down in the 1980s when ...

It’s time to put to rest 11 of the most common myths about verification intellectual property (VIP). SmartDV’s Bipul Talukdar, Director of Applications Engineering, explains why it’s used in a ...