Part 3: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 3: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study…

Part 2: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 2: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study…

Prologue: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Prologue: The 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This is the first in a sequence of blogs that presents the findings from our new 2018 Wilson Research Group…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 6 – Leveraging Data Independence and Non-Determinism

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 6 – Leveraging Data Independence and Non-Determinism

If you know the dependencies – or lack thereof – in your design, you can exploit two very fundamental characteristics…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 5 – Memory Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 5 – Memory Abstraction

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

Upcoming Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study Web Seminar

Upcoming Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study Web Seminar

About every two years, Mentor, A Siemens Business, commissions Wilson Research Group to conduct a broad, vendor-independent study of design…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

In Part 2 of this series, we showed how reducing the complexity of you assumptions (a/k/a constraints) can really help…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; meaning the combined complexity of the design, assertions, and assumptions…