Most companies use a bottom-up verification flow, which has some implications on the tools that they use for verification. Some companies, though, are moving to a top-down flow because today’s systems ...

Recently, Cadence held a System-to-Silicon Verification Summit at which companies like Broadcom, Zenverge, NVIDIA, and Ambarella shared their experiences and visions for verification. In one of the ...

The problem with today's existing methodologies is that verification issubservient to design. This principle requires a shift in paradigm,especially in designing complex electronic systems. Why?

Adding assertions early and throughout the ASIC design cycle is the best way to independently check that design code reflects the intended behavior as specified in design specifications and the ...

I welcome my co-author for today’s post, Srikanth Rengarajan, vice president of product and business development from Austemper Design Systems. We would like to focus on safety-critical designs, a ...