Hardware designers have been using RTL and hardware description languages since the 1980s, yet many attempts at moving beyond RTL have tried to gain a foothold. At the #62DAC event I spent some time with Mike Fingeroff, the Chief High-Level Synthesis Technologist to understand what his company Rise Design Automation is up to. … Read More
This webinar introduces Questa One Sim CX, an innovative coverage-driven simulation solution that revolutionizes SystemVerilog UVM verification workflows.
Traditional coverage closure methods, relying on constrained-random stimulus generation and iterative manual adjustments, often prove time-consuming and resource-intensive.
The 2025 Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) was a four-day event packed with insightful discussions, cutting-edge technology showcases, and thought-provoking debates. The conference agenda included a rich mix of tutorial sessions, a keynote presentation, a panel discussion, and an exhibit hall with Electronic… Read More
In the early days of the PSS rollout, some verification engineers were suspicious. Just as they were beginning to get comfortable with UVM, here came yet another standard to add to their learning and complexity overhead. Then the fog started to clear; UVM is ideal for block-level testing whereas PSS is ideal for system level testing.… Read More
You begin writing some UVM code and there are parts of the code that aren’t done yet, so you begin to use uvm_objection, guarding that code. Rich Edelman, a product engineer at Siemens doing verification debug and analysis, wrote a paper on this topic, which I just read. This blog covers the topic of objections and provides some different… Read More
I just read an interesting white paper on functional verification of analog blocks using SV-RNM (SystemVerilog real number modeling). The content is worth the effort to read closely as it elaborates a functional verification flow for RNM matching expectations for digital logic verification, from randomization to functional… Read More
Accellera invited me to attend their #61DAC panel discussion about the new Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) v3.0, and the formal press release was also just announced. The big idea with PSS is to enable seamless reuse of stimulus across simulation, emulation and post-silicon debug and prototyping.
Tom Fitzpatrick from Siemens… Read More
Transistor-level circuit designers have long used SPICE for circuit simulation, mostly because it is silicon accurate and helps them to predict the function, timing, power, waveforms, slopes and delays in a cell before fabrication. RTL designers use digital simulators that have a huge capacity but are lacking analog modeling.… Read More
Dr. Nasib Naser brings over 35 years of experience in the field. His expertise spans the entire VLSI cycle from conception to chip design, with a strong focus on verification methodologies. For his 17 years at Synopsys, Dr. Naser have held senior management positions, leading North American Verification IP, managing Central … Read More
Axiomise pioneered the adoption of formal verification in the semiconductor industry since 2017. Led by visionary CEO, Dr. Ashish Darbari, who has 63 patents in formal verification, and Neil Dunlop an industry veteran with 40 years of experience, Axiomise has helped twenty customers over the last six years by providing them… Read More
