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Selective hardening in space applications

Introduction The space sector continues to experience disruption as innovation drives the creation of new business models across government and…

Starting Your UVM Simulation

Starting Your UVM Simulation

Introduction What happens when you start your simulation with a UVM test bench? Where should you put the uvm_config_db::set() calls…

A Hitchhiker’s Guide to DVCon US ’23

Where can you improve your verification skills? In March 2023 I attended DVCon US, the Verification and Design Conference in…

Decoding LLM Hallucinations: Insights and Taming them for EDA Applications

What are Large Language Model’s hallucinations. LLMs will be powerful EDA productivity tool once we know what caused it and how to deal with their adverse effects.

Siemens EDA at the 60th DAC

Please mark your calendars for the highly anticipated 60th anniversary Design Automation Conference (DAC). The 60th DAC will take place…

UVM Debug? Just nature doing what it does

Bent Tools and other Horrors From the Garden and UVM Debug – or Are You Still Debugging with $display?

I can’t take credit for the great flowers in the garden. It’s the tremendous rain we’ve had in California this…

Pool of parameterized handles in SystemVerilog

Groups of Class Specializations in SystemVerilog

Introduction In a previous post, I said that in SystemVerilog, once you specialize a class, you can not make a…

DVConUS 2023 Verification Horizons is Out

Some of you may have wondered for the past few years why we chose to use the name Verification Horizons…

ML for Verification

Big Data for Verification – Inspiration from Large Language Models

The importance of verification data learned from training Large Language Models. In DVCon will share an overview of ML applications in verification and . present VIQ tutorial on how data can empower verification, with demos of existing ML applications.