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Summary
Emerging 2.5D and 3DIC packaging technologies enable more design complexity, and bring some new verification challenges. We look at how to scale your verification capability to match and how to plan ahead for verification of die-to-die interconnect protocols such as UCIe and memory verification with HBM.
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