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Accellera to explore the need for an IP Security Assurance Standard In the era of SoC design where major design…

Whether developing tests for software or hardware, test development seems to follow a pretty predictable process: learn about the thing…

Emulation technology has been around for a long time—more than four decades by my count—and industry observers believe more than…

A colleague recently asked me: Has anything changed? Do design teams tape-out nowadays without GLS (Gate-Level Simulation)? And if so,…

Few verification tasks are more challenging than trying to achieve code coverage goals for a complex system that, by design,…

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

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

Design Trends (Continued) In Part 1 of this series of blogs, I focused on design trends (click here) as identified…

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