How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

In Part 2 of this series, we showed how reducing the complexity of you assumptions (a/k/a constraints) can really help…

Prospecting for Reusable Assets with Portable Stimulus

Prospecting for Reusable Assets with Portable Stimulus

You may have verification information in your organization that you can use now to jump-start creation of portable stimulus models…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; meaning the combined complexity of the design, assertions, and assumptions…

New UVM Cookbook Hot Off the Presses and In the Press

New UVM Cookbook Hot Off the Presses and In the Press

As you may know, we recently updated the online UVM Cookbook on Verification Academy. As you’ll see in “Updated UVM…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 1 – Finding Where Formal Got Stuck and Some Initial Corrective Steps to Take

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 1 – Finding Where Formal Got Stuck and Some Initial Corrective Steps to Take

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; which means that the combined complexity of the design, assertions,…

Accellera Approves Portable Stimulus Standard – and more…

Accellera Approves Portable Stimulus Standard – and more…

Portable Stimulus Takes Center Stage at 2018 Design Automation Conference Accellera Systems Initiative technical teams have been busy the past…

Portable Stimulus (and Other Standards) at DAC

Portable Stimulus (and Other Standards) at DAC

We’re about to embark on my favorite (professional) time of the year! That’s right, the 55th Design Automation Conference is…

Siemens Acquires Austemper Design Systems

Siemens Acquires Austemper Design Systems

Breakthrough IC Functional Safety Technology Strengthens Mentor Product Offerings In today’s complex automotive, industrial, medical and aerospace systems, functional safety…