Virtual Emulation for Debugging

Virtual Emulation for Debugging

A system-level verification engineer once told me that his company consumes over 50% of its emulation capacity debugging failures. According…

Intelligent Testbench Automation – Catching on Fast

Intelligent Testbench Automation – Catching on Fast

Graph-Based Intelligent Testbench Automation While intelligent testbench automation is still reasonably new when measured in EDA years, this graph-based verification…

Introducing UVM Connect

Introducing UVM Connect

In his recent post on UVM: Some Thoughts Before DVCon, Dennis outlined some great ideas about what we think should…

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen…

Combining Intelligent Testbench Automation with Constrained Random Testing

Combining Intelligent Testbench Automation with Constrained Random Testing

Who Doesn’t Like Faster? In my last blog post I introduced new technology called Intelligent Testbench Automation (“iTBA”).  It’s generating…

Intelligent Testbench Automation Delivers 10X to 100X Faster Functional Verification

Intelligent Testbench Automation Delivers 10X to 100X Faster Functional Verification

iTBA Introduction If you’ve been to DAC or DVCon during the past couple of years, you’ve probably at least heard…

Part 9: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 9: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Verification Techniques & Technologies Adoption Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights…

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Verification Horizons DAC Issue Now Available Online

Well, another DAC is behind us, and you know what that means. That’s right, the super-sized DAC issue of Verification…

Part 8: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 8: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights from the…