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…

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…

Get on the Fast Track to Advanced Verification with UVM Express

Get on the Fast Track to Advanced Verification with UVM Express

Advanced verification techniques including functional coverage and constrained random stimulus generation have proven themselves invaluable in the design of the…

UVM™ at DVCon 2012

UVM™ at DVCon 2012

“Ready, Set, Deploy” The last half year has seen a theme from Accellera Systems Initiative that declares its Universal Verification…

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Instant Replay for Debugging SoC Level Simulations

Instant Replay Offers Multiple Views at Any Speed If you’ve watched any professional sporting event on television lately, you’ve seen…

VHS or Betamax?

VHS or Betamax?

Legacy’s Luster Lost As a follow-on to my last blog, where I shared information about Harry Foster speaking live about…

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…

Part 7: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 7: The 2010 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Testbench Characteristics and Simulation Strategies (Continued) This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs, which present the highlights…