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Verification is from Vulcan, Validation is from Pandora

Verification is from Vulcan, Validation is from Pandora

At DVCon earlier this year, I was lucky enough to present to the munching masses at the Wednesday lunch. Now,…

Significantly Improve Your FPGA Design Reliability by Using Custom CDC Synchronizers

Significantly Improve Your FPGA Design Reliability by Using Custom CDC Synchronizers

[Preface: we are presenting a paper on this topic at the upcoming SEE/MAPLD conference, May 21-24, 2018 in La Jolla,…

Accellera Proposes a New Working Group

Accellera Proposes a New Working Group

Accellera to explore the need for an IP Security Assurance Standard In the era of SoC design where major design…

NVMe – To the rescue of the Storage Revolution Bottleneck

NVMe – To the rescue of the Storage Revolution Bottleneck

“Between the dawn of civilization and 2003, we only created five exabytes; now we’re creating that amount every two days….

DVCon China 2018: Driving the Next Big Wave in Verification!

DVCon China 2018: Driving the Next Big Wave in Verification!

DVCon is recognized as the premiere industry-focused functional design and verification conference. In fact, today DVCon has grown from a…

OVL: The Free, Open Assertion Library You Can Use To Jump Start Your Formal Testbench

OVL: The Free, Open Assertion Library You Can Use To Jump Start Your Formal Testbench

You’ve watched all the Verification Academy videos on getting started with formal verification, and even tried some of the examples…

The New Verification Horizons is Here!

The New Verification Horizons is Here!

  Our March issue of Verification Horizons is now available here. Aside from giving me a chance to work through my…

New! Get your IEEE 1800-2017 SystemVerilog LRM at no charge

New! Get your IEEE 1800-2017 SystemVerilog LRM at no charge

Updated Feb 26, 2018: IEEE releases 1800-2017 Standard. Today at this week’s DVCon 2013 conference, the IEEE Standards Association (IEEE-SA)…

New and Improved SystemVerilog 1800-2017

New and Improved SystemVerilog 1800-2017

The IEEE-SA has a policy of keeping standards active by making sure they get a cycle of updates every 10…