Verification Horizons | September 2021

The September Verification Horizons is Now Online!

I’m really excited to share with you a very special issue of the Verification Horizons newsletter for September, 2021. The…

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Learn Formal the Easy Way

The sight of kids going back to school can prompt feelings of joy and renewal – or trigger less pleasant…

Deploying Formal in a DO-254 Program

The primary focus of DO-254, referred to as ED-80 in Europe, is hardware reliability of airborne electronic hardware. DO-254 is…

Formal Verification Experiences: Spiral Refinement Methodology for Silicon Bug Hunting

DVCon U.S. 2021 Best Paper Report – Formal Verification Experiences: Spiral Refinement Methodology for Silicon Bug Hunt

This year’s DVCon U.S. saw many great papers, posters, and tutorials; covering almost every aspect of functional verification. Thus, in…

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3 Notable Formal Verification Conference Papers of 2020

On the short list of positive things to come out of the past year are the formal verification-focused conference papers…

Part 9: The 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

IC/ASIC Verification Technology Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2020 Wilson…

AMC 20-152A: A practitioners perspective

A previous post discussed the high level impact of the new AMC 20-152A guidance on DO-254 programs. That post touched…

Formal Flows From a Simulation Point-of-View

At the end of Your First Step Into Formal Property Checking, I said the effort I put into understanding formal…

Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal

DAC 2020 Paper Report: Easy Deadlock Verification and Debug with Advanced Formal Verification

At this year’s Design Automation Conference (DAC), Formal verification was everywhere – in posters, papers, and panel discussions – where…