Adding Functional Safety to Verification Academy

Adding Functional Safety to Verification Academy

We here at Mentor never stop working to keep the Verification Academy at the forefront of the functional verification community….

How to Prove that It’s Not Your Fault

How to Prove that It’s Not Your Fault

In our June, 2018 edition of Verification Horizons, there’s a great article by my colleague Doug Smith, one of our formal…

Emerging Commercial Acceptance of RISC-V

Emerging Commercial Acceptance of RISC-V

Over the past few years, you may have noted a growing number of articles in our Verification Horizons Publication that…

Upcoming Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study Web Seminar

Upcoming Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study Web Seminar

About every two years, Mentor, A Siemens Business, commissions Wilson Research Group to conduct a broad, vendor-independent study of design…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 4 – Counter Abstraction

When big counters and memories are in the active logic cone of an assertion that keeps coming up as “inconclusive”,…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 3 – Assertion Decomposition

In Part 2 of this series, we showed how reducing the complexity of you assumptions (a/k/a constraints) can really help…

Prospecting for Reusable Assets with Portable Stimulus

Prospecting for Reusable Assets with Portable Stimulus

You may have verification information in your organization that you can use now to jump-start creation of portable stimulus models…

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

How to Reduce the Complexity of Formal Analysis – Part 2 – Reducing the Complexity of Your Assumptions

When using formal property checking, users often encounter “inconclusive” results; meaning the combined complexity of the design, assertions, and assumptions…

New UVM Cookbook Hot Off the Presses and In the Press

New UVM Cookbook Hot Off the Presses and In the Press

As you may know, we recently updated the online UVM Cookbook on Verification Academy. As you’ll see in “Updated UVM…