FutureCast 2026

FutureCast 2026: A Special Holiday Edition of BUGGED OUT

As another year closes, the semiconductor industry finds itself in a moment of transition—one where the pace of innovation is…

BUGGED OUT PODCAST

Introducing BUGGED OUT — A new bite-sized podcast for verification engineers

BUGGED OUT Podcast

New RTL Modeling Constructs in Verilog

I’ve been packing up my office as Siemens is closing my location. This marks the longest I’ve ever spent in a single office, a whopping 15 years. Coincidentally, I was in the same building earlier with another company, Avant! for an additional 2 years. I’ve got a box of stuff from previous jobs that I rarely unpack. But it happened to go through it and found the proceedings from what was to become the first DVCon in 1992. I doubt these proceedings exist anywhere in digital form.

In the proceedings was a paper I published about a new RTL modeling construct I added to Verilog before it became an IEEE standard. It eventually became known as a NonBlocking Assignment (NBA).

Pushing boundaries: Smarter verification for UCIe multi-die systems

The semiconductor industry is at a turning point. As demand for higher performance and energy efficiency continues to grow, chipmakers…

From Novice to Expert: Your Tutorial Roadmap at DVCon Europe 2025

In support of Verification Academy’s educational mission, Siemens is either directly sponsoring or contributing to the following five tutorials at…

Class is back in session this October: Verification Academy’s cutting-edge weekly webinar series

Verification Academy’s fall semester starts this October with the following series of weekly deep dive webinars. Abstracts and registration links…

Functional Verification Insights with Abhi Kolpekwar

Functional verification insights: a conversation with Abhi Kolpekwar

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of sharing industry data and analysis through the Siemens EDA & Wilson Research Group…

The Grapes Are Ready

The Grapes Are Back! And Cake! And C Tests with UVM and Transactions For All! Easy.

The grapes have returned – this weekend was “harvest” time. Jelly everywhere. A lot like this year here at Siemens….

First-Silicon Success

Why First-Silicon Success Is Getting Harder for System Companies

First-silicon success is getting harder.

Everyone wants their own chip. Few are hitting first-silicon success.

That’s the paradox shaping today’s semiconductor landscape.

In the 2024 Siemens EDA / Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, which I authored, we found that only 14% of ASIC/SoC projects achieved first-silicon success — the lowest figure in more than twenty years of tracking this data.