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Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Is Legacy Holding You Back? Harry Foster, Mentor’s Verification Chief Scientist, will take center stage to give live presentations on…

New UVM Recipe-of-the-Month: Sequence Layering

New UVM Recipe-of-the-Month: Sequence Layering

I’m excited to announce that our second UVM Recipe-of-the-Month Webinar, “Sequence Layering,” will be presented on Thursday, September 15, at…

Combining Intelligent Testbench Automation with Constrained Random Testing

Combining Intelligent Testbench Automation with Constrained Random Testing

Who Doesn’t Like Faster? In my last blog post I introduced new technology called Intelligent Testbench Automation (“iTBA”).  It’s generating…

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Historical Perspective In my early days of standards development, I was intrigued how a standard went from the development phase…

Verification Academy Now Includes OVMWorld Content

Verification Academy Now Includes OVMWorld Content

I am pleased to announce that Mentor Graphics has recently expanded Verification Academy to provide a “one-stop shop” for all…

Intelligent Testbench Automation Delivers 10X to 100X Faster Functional Verification

Intelligent Testbench Automation Delivers 10X to 100X Faster Functional Verification

iTBA Introduction If you’ve been to DAC or DVCon during the past couple of years, you’ve probably at least heard…

Part 9: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 9: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Verification Techniques & Technologies Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights…

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Well, another DAC is behind us, and you know what that means. That’s right, the super-sized DAC issue of Verification…

Accellera & OSCI Unite

Accellera & OSCI Unite

System Standards Worlds Initiate Unification Accellera, who brought us SystemVerilog, and the Open SystemC Imitative (OSCI), who brought us SystemC…