The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 6, FPGA-focused Equivalency Checking Flows

With last year’s acquisition of OneSpin, we now have a valuable addition to the solutions I described in The Many…

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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…

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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…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 5, Summary of the Most Popular LEC and SLEC Use Cases

As I noted at the beginning of this series, the term “logic equivalence checking” (LEC) applies to a number of…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 4, How SLEC Brings Automated, Exhaustive Formal Analysis to Safety Mechanism Verification

[Preface / reminders: Part 1 of this series focused on synthesis validation with LEC and SLEC, Part 2 describes how…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 3, How SLEC Brings Automated, Exhaustive Formal Analysis to Low Power Clock Gating Verification

[Preface / reminders: Part 1 of this series focused on synthesis validation with LEC and SLEC, and Part 2 describes…

FMCAD 2019: The Most Important Formal Verification Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

FMCAD 2019: The Most Important Formal Verification Conference You’ve Never Heard Of

[Preface: I briefly interrupt my series on The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking to share this report on an important…

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 1, Synthesis Validation with LEC and SLEC (a/k/a the Most Popular Formal Apps Ever)

The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking: Part 1, Synthesis Validation with LEC and SLEC (a/k/a the Most Popular Formal Apps Ever)

In EDA, the word “simulation” is used everywhere: there is RTL and gate level simulation, analog simulation, RF simulation, and…

See You at DVCon U.S. 2018!

See You at DVCon U.S. 2018!

We hope to see you at DVCon U.S. 2018.  Mentor will showcase 17 papers and posters during the conference on…