{"id":13407,"date":"2018-12-05T06:07:14","date_gmt":"2018-12-05T13:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/?p=13407"},"modified":"2026-03-27T08:40:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T12:40:46","slug":"latest-verification-horizons-newsletter-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/verificationhorizons\/2018\/12\/05\/latest-verification-horizons-newsletter-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Verification Horizons Newsletter Is Now Available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, the latest issue of the\u00a0<em>Verification Horizons<\/em> Newsletter is now available on Verification Academy. This issue is dedicated to Stu Sutherland and Joe Daniels, two friends and colleagues who passed away this year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/verification-horizons\/november-2018-volume-14-issue-3\/fpga-verification-challenges-and-opportunities\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">first article<\/a> is an in-depth look at the impact that advanced verification techniques have on the protecting FPGAs from having non-trivial bugs escape into production. The data discussed in this article comes from Harry Foster&#8217;s biennial industry survey conducted by the Wilson Research Group, about which you can read more <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mentor.com\/verificationhorizons\/blog\/2018\/11\/14\/prologue-the-2018-wilson-research-group-functional-verification-study\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">beginning here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we continue our series of helpful and practical techniques to apply the new <a href=\"http:\/\/accellera.org\/downloads\/standards\/portable-stimulus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Accellera Portable Test and Stimulus Standard<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/verification-horizons\/november-2018-volume-14-issue-3\/building-a-better-virtual-sequence-with-portable-stimulus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">create better virtual sequences<\/a> for your UVM environment than you can write on your own.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll find some great ideas in\u00a0<em>&#8220;<\/em><a title=\"A New Approach to Low-Power Verification - Power Aware Apps\" href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/verification-horizons\/november-2018-volume-14-issue-3\/a-new-approach-to-low-power-verification-power-aware-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A New Approach to Low-Power Verification: Power Aware<\/a><a title=\"A New Approach to Low-Power Verification - Power Aware Apps\" href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/verification-horizons\/november-2018-volume-14-issue-3\/a-new-approach-to-low-power-verification-power-aware-apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> Apps<\/a>&#8221; on how to apply the new UVM 3.0 information model API along with some Tcl code to create some apps to help with various aspects of verifying your low-power design.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, we have an article on how <a href=\"https:\/\/verificationacademy.com\/verification-horizons\/november-2018-volume-14-issue-3\/simplifying-mixed-signal-verification\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">simplify mixed-signal verification<\/a>. Whether it&#8217;s for IoT, automotive, communication, industrial or some other application, you&#8217;ll learn how Mentor&#8217;s new Symphony Mixed-Signal Platform provides the flexibility, accuracy and performance to support a variety of methodologies to verify your analog designs alongside their digital counterparts. For fans of debug, you&#8217;ll see some pretty cool stuff there, too.<\/p>\n<p>Please check out this great issue of Verification Horizons and if you are looking for future articles on a specific topic, let me know in the comments or send me an email.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t seen it yet, the latest issue of the\u00a0Verification Horizons Newsletter is now available on Verification Academy. 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