Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Verification Issues Take Center Stage

Is Legacy Holding You Back? Harry Foster, Mentor’s Verification Chief Scientist, will take center stage to give live presentations on…

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Going from “Standards Development” to “Standards Practice”

Historical Perspective In my early days of standards development, I was intrigued how a standard went from the development phase…

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…

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

Getting Your Standards Update @ DAC 2011

The standards developing organizations defining and updating front-end EDA standards will be at DAC in force.  And from the looks…

User-2-User’s Functional Verification Track

User-2-User’s Functional Verification Track

User Adoption of OVM Featured; Views on UVM Discussed The Mentor Graphics user group meeting, User-2-User, in Santa Clara is…

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Language Transitions: The Dawning of Age of Aquarius

Wally Rhines DVCon 2011 Keynote Highlights Survey on Verification Languages OK, maybe it is not the Dawning of the Age…

Parameterized Classes, Static Members and the Factory Macros

Parameterized Classes, Static Members and the Factory Macros

Somebody asked me a simple question: Why do need two different macros (`ovm_object_utils and `ovm_object_param_utils) to register classes with the…

Accellera Approves New Co-Emulation Standard

Accellera Approves New Co-Emulation Standard

Standard Co-Emulation Modeling Interface (SCE-MI) 2.1 Improves Verification Productivity The Accellera Interface Technical Subcommittee (ITC) completed version 2.1 of the…

The Survey Says: Verification Planning

The Survey Says: Verification Planning

As the saying goes: Those who fail to plan, plan to fail. With that said, I am excited to announce…