Texas-Sized DAC Edition of Verification Horizons Now Up on Verification Academy

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that we just posted the PDF of the latest, Texas-Sized, DAC edition of Verification Horizons on the Verification Academy. In addition to my Editor’s Note, in which I liken what we do as verification engineers to my set-building experiences in local theatre groups, and brag about my daughter, you’ll find these fine articles:

• Interviewing a Verification Engineer  by Akiva Michelson, Ace Verification

• Maximum Productivity with Verification IP by Joe Rodriguez, Raghu Ardeishar, and Rich Edelman, Mentor Graphics

• Power Up Hardware/Software Verification Productivity by Matthew Ballance, Mentor Graphics

• Non-invasive Software Verification using Vista Virtual Platforms by Alex Rozenman, Vladimir Pilko, and Nilay Mitash, Mentor Graphics

• QVM: Enabling Organized, Predictable, and Faster Verification Closure by Gaurav Jalan, SmartPlay Technologies, and Pradeep Salla, Mentor Graphics

• Verifying High Speed Peripheral IPs by Sreekanth Ravindran and Chakravarthi M.G., Mobiveil

• Confidence in the Face of the Unknown: X-state Verification by Kaowen Liu, MediaTek Inc., and Roger Sabbagh, Mentor Graphics

• Making it Easy to Deploy the UVM by Dr. Christoph Sühnel, frobas GmbH

• NoC Generic Scoreboard VIP by François Cerisier and Mathieu Maisonneuve, Test and Verification Solutions

• Flexible UVM Components: Configuring Bus Functional Models by Gunther Clasen, Ensilica

• Monitors, Monitors Everywhere – Who Is Monitoring the Monitors? by Rich Edelman and Raghu Ardeishar, Mentor Graphics

• The Need for Speed: Understanding Design Factors that Make Multi-core Parallel Simulations Efficient by Shobana Sudhakar & Rohit Jain, Mentor Graphics

We’ll have plenty of copies available at DAC. Be sure to stop by the Mentor booth (2046) or the Verification Academy booth (1215) to pick one up, or just to say “Howdy.”