Part 5: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 5: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

  Effort Spent in Verification This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs that present the highlights from…

Part 3: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 3: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Clocking and Power Trends In Part 2 of this series of blogs, I continued the discussion focused on design trends…

Part 2: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 2: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

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

Part 1: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 1: The 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

 Design Trends In my previous blog, I introduced the 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). The objective of…

What’s the deal with those wire’s and reg’s in Verilog

What’s the deal with those wire’s and reg’s in Verilog

A unique concept most beginners have trouble grasping about the Verilog, and now the SystemVerilog, Hardware Description Language (HDL) is…

Get Ready for SystemVerilog 2012

Get Ready for SystemVerilog 2012

The latest revision of the IEEE 1800-2012 SystemVerilog Language Reference Manual (LRM) is about to hit the press; though I…

Introducing “Verification Academy 2.0”

Introducing “Verification Academy 2.0”

A new style takes center stage It was Fashion Week in Portland, Oregon in early October.  And while the thought…

Synthesizing Hardware Assertions and Post-Silicon Debug

Synthesizing Hardware Assertions and Post-Silicon Debug

At the 2012 Design Automation Conference, I had the pleasure of moderating a panel at a workshop titled “Post-Silicon Debug:…

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…