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…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 1 – Finding Where Formal Got Stuck and Some Initial Corrective Steps to Take

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 1 – Finding Where Formal Got Stuck and Some Initial Corrective Steps to Take

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; which means that the combined complexity of the design, assertions,…

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…

How to Become a Formal Expert and Impress your Friends and Boss!

How to Become a Formal Expert and Impress your Friends and Boss!

No one ever said that functional verification was easy. In fact, from a computer science theoretical perspective verification is considered…

DVCon China: Formal Technology Is Set for Growth in Asia

DVCon China: Formal Technology Is Set for Growth in Asia

At the recent DVCon in Shanghai, China, my colleague Jin Hou delivered the tutorial “Back to Basics: Doing Formal the…

How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Leaving You in the Cold

How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Leaving You in the Cold

While internet connected vehicles remain a popular target for hackers, the new breed of “smart” devices have the potential to…

Part 9: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 9: The 2016 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 2016 Wilson…

5 Things I Learned at the 2016 SAE World Congress

5 Things I Learned at the 2016 SAE World Congress

A few weeks ago I had the honor of presenting a paper related to my prior Verification Horizons blog posts…