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DVCon USA 2022 How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Mixing Formal and Simulation Coverage

Preview of DVCon 2022 — How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Mixing Formal and Simulation Coverage

With eight papers in two separate sessions focused exclusively on formal verification, one could assert (pun intended) that this year’s…

FPGA Retargeting

FPGA Retargeting

FPGA retargeting is an essential element of supply–chain agility in a world without traditional second–sourcing. Since the 1980s, second–sourcing has…

Siemens EDA @DVConUS 2022

DVConUS is coming up, beginning on February 28, 2022. The conference will be virtual again for 2022, but I’d like…

Guidelines to a successful ISO 26262 Lifecycle

New business models continue to drive disrupting innovation into the automotive market. This includes everything from mobility as a service, to…

Getting your Safety Architecture just right

Introduction In a recent industry survey, roughly 40% of ASIC and FPGA project starts had functional safety part of their…

The configurability dilemma creating safe ICs

A traditional automobile today consists of multiple systems controlling everything from the interior atmosphere to drive train to more advanced…

The importance of effective Safety Analysis

In the recent Wilson research industry survey, semiconductor companies reporting have made it clear that functional safety activities consume a…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 6, FPGA-focused Equivalency Checking Flows

With last year’s acquisition of OneSpin, we now have a valuable addition to the solutions I described in The Many…

Lego Blocks

Odds and Ends

I hope that the Python for Verification Series has demonstrated that Python is a new tool in the verification team’s…