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…

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…