A glimpse into the journey of DVCon India 2017

A glimpse into the journey of DVCon India 2017

Time sure does fly, DVCon India 2017 is just around the corner, but I feel like DVCon India 2016 just…

Verification Horizons: The DAC 2015 Issue

Verification Horizons: The DAC 2015 Issue

If you were not one of the 100’s of visitors to the Verification Academy booth at DAC 2015 and missed…

Preparing for the Perfect Storm with New-School Verification Techniques

Preparing for the Perfect Storm with New-School Verification Techniques

Between 2006 and 2014, the average number of IPs integrated into an advanced SoC increased from about 30 to over…

Happy Halloween from ARM  TechCon

Happy Halloween from ARM TechCon

MENTOR GRAPHICS AT ARM TECHCON This week ARM® TechCon® 2013 is being held at the Santa Clara Convention Center from…

Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose?

Walking in the Desert or Drinking from a Fire Hose?

You don’t need a graphic like the one below to know that multi-core SoC designs are here to stay.  This one…

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…

Tornado Alert!!!

Tornado Alert!!!

Is my car trying to tell me something? This past Friday was the beginning of a two day internal functional…

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…