Formal Verification of Registers and SoC Assembly in Collaboration with Jasper™ and OneSpin™

Formal Verification of Registers and SoC Assembly in Collaboration with Jasper™ and OneSpin™
by Admin on 04-26-2022 at 1:51 pm

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Automatic generation of System Verilog Assertions for block level register specification, chip-level RTL design aggregating leaf level design, and RTL wrapper connectivity checks at SoC level.

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Simulation and Formal – Finding the Right Balance

Simulation and Formal – Finding the Right Balance
by Bernard Murphy on 01-23-2018 at 7:00 am

Simulation dominates hardware functional verification today and likely will continue to dominate for the foreseeable future. Meanwhile formal verification, once thought to be a possible challenger for the title, has instead converged on a more effective role as a complement to simulation. Formal excels at finding problems… Read More


Next Generation Formal Technology to Boost Verification

Next Generation Formal Technology to Boost Verification
by Pawan Fangaria on 06-08-2015 at 12:00 pm

With growing complexities and sizes of SoCs, verification has become a key challenge for design closure. There isn’t a single methodology that can provide complete verification closure for an SoC. Moreover creation of verification environment including hardware, software, testbench and testcases requires significant … Read More


Kathryn Kranen at IEDM

Kathryn Kranen at IEDM
by Paul McLellan on 12-23-2014 at 7:00 am

It is the 50th year of IEDM, the International Electron Devices Meeting. The fact that it has been going for so long reveals why it has such an odd name: back in 1964 most “electron devices” were tubes (valves in UK lingo). This year they gave all of us a USB stick with all the papers from all 50 years of the event, something… Read More


How Sonics Uses Jasper Formal Verification

How Sonics Uses Jasper Formal Verification
by Paul McLellan on 11-11-2014 at 7:00 am

The Jasper part of Cadence announced jointly with Sonics a relationship whereby Sonics uses JasperGold Apps as part of their verification. I talked to Drew Wingard, the CTO, about how they use it.

One way is during the day when their design engineers use Jasper as part of their verification arsenal. Interestingly it is the design… Read More


Cadence Results: Good but Palladium under Price Pressure

Cadence Results: Good but Palladium under Price Pressure
by Paul McLellan on 07-21-2014 at 10:00 pm

Cadence announced their 2Q results this afternoon. I listened to the conference call.

You can read all the details of the results in the press release but the big picture is:

  • Revenue $379K, net income $23M GAAP or $64M non-GAAP (8, 21c per share, beat estimates by 1c). Equivalent quarter last year was $362M so less than 5% increase)
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Jasper at DAC

Jasper at DAC
by Paul McLellan on 05-20-2014 at 6:55 pm

Wait, didn’t Cadence just acquire Jasper. Why is there a Jasper at DAC post?

So the big event is lunch on Tuesday, on Treasure Island. For out of towners that is the island in the middle of the bay bridge (actually just half of it). Food trucks, awesome views of the bay, and really cool street performers. There will be street magic,… Read More


Cadence Acquires Jasper

Cadence Acquires Jasper
by Paul McLellan on 04-21-2014 at 4:06 pm

Cadence announced today that it is acquiring Jasper Design Automation for $170M in an all-cash offer. Jasper has $24M in cash so it is really an acquisition for around $145M. i think that is around 4X revenue but I only know rumors about Jasper’s revenue numbers.

All the big 3 already have their own formal technology but the … Read More


Can the NSA Get Into Your Chip?

Can the NSA Get Into Your Chip?
by Paul McLellan on 04-21-2014 at 2:49 am

At DVCon Lawrence Loh and Viktor Markus Purri gave a tutorial on Formally Verifying Security Aspects of SoC Designs. Lawrence is the direector of WW application engineering and Markus is an FAE who specializes in security verification.

I’m not going to attempt to summarize an entire half-day tutorial in under 1000 words,… Read More