How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Driving You into a Ditch, Part 1 of 2

How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Driving You into a Ditch, Part 1 of 2

[Preface: everywhere it refers to automobiles in this post, you can also swap in “X-Ray machine”, “pacemaker”, and “aircraft”] The…

NEW Formal & CDC Courses on Verification Academy

NEW Formal & CDC Courses on Verification Academy

Do you have a really tough verification problem – one that takes seemingly forever for a testbench simulation to solve…

ASYNC 2015: The Most Important CDC Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

ASYNC 2015: The Most Important CDC Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

Because Clock Domain Crossing (CDC) verification has been around for well over a decade, it’s tempting to think that CDC…

Do Formal Apps Help D&V Engineers Cross the Chasm Into Direct Formal Property Checking? This Oracle Case Study Suggests They Do (Part 2 of 2)

Do Formal Apps Help D&V Engineers Cross the Chasm Into Direct Formal Property Checking? This Oracle Case Study Suggests They Do (Part 2 of 2)

Do automated formal apps really help D&V engineers “cross the chasm” and start using formal verification directly? In Part 1…

Do Formal Apps Help D&V Engineers Cross the Chasm Into Direct Formal Property Checking? This Oracle Case Study Suggests They Do (Part 1 of 2)

Do Formal Apps Help D&V Engineers Cross the Chasm Into Direct Formal Property Checking? This Oracle Case Study Suggests They Do (Part 1 of 2)

One of the biggest developments in the formal verification world in the past several years has been the industry-wide growth…

3 Notable Formal-Related Conference Papers of 2014

3 Notable Formal-Related Conference Papers of 2014

2014 was an exciting year for formal verification to say the least, and below I call out a sampling of…

ARM® Techcon Paper Report: How Microsoft Saved 4 Man-Months Meeting Their Coverage Closure Goals Using Automated Verification Management & Formal Apps

ARM® Techcon Paper Report: How Microsoft Saved 4 Man-Months Meeting Their Coverage Closure Goals Using Automated Verification Management & Formal Apps

Few verification tasks are more challenging than trying to achieve code coverage goals for a complex system that, by design,…