Portable Stimulus: A Small Step in Standardization

Portable Stimulus: A Small Step in Standardization

Accellera Approves Creation of Portable Stimulus Working Group At DVCon 2014, Mentor Graphics proposed Accellera launch an exploratory exercise, called…

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…

Verification Academy: Up Close & Personal

Verification Academy: Up Close & Personal

Live & In-Person at DAC 2012! Verification Academy, the brain child of Harry Foster, Chief Verification Scientist at Mentor Graphics,…

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…