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How to Save a Ton of Time and Energy by Prioritizing Faults with Exhaustive Formal Analysis Before Launching Detailed Fault Verification

How to Save a Ton of Time and Energy by Prioritizing Faults with Exhaustive Formal Analysis Before Launching Detailed Fault Verification

[Preface: If you are going to be at ARM Techcon 2017 on Wednesday October 25, the methodology described in this…

Test Intent, Test Realization, and Separation of Concerns

Test Intent, Test Realization, and Separation of Concerns

Separation of concerns is a key computer-science design principle to ensure creation of modular programs. Quoting from Wikipedia, “A concern…

Portable Stimulus in Verification Horizons

Portable Stimulus in Verification Horizons

Welcome back from Summer! Now that we’re all re-focusing on work after vacations, I wanted to remind everyone about a…

A glimpse into the journey of DVCon India 2017

A glimpse into the journey of DVCon India 2017

Time sure does fly, DVCon India 2017 is just around the corner, but I feel like DVCon India 2016 just…

DVCon U.S.

DVCon U.S.

There is certainly demand for what the Accellera DVCon events bring the global design and verification engineering community.  Not more…

Evolving Product Lifecycle Requires New Debugging Skills

Evolving Product Lifecycle Requires New Debugging Skills

There’s a wonderful quote in Brian Kernighan book The Elements of Programming Style, where he says “Everyone knows that debugging…

Portable Stimulus Specification Released for Public Review

Portable Stimulus Specification Released for Public Review

I am happy to announce that Accellera has just released an Early Adopter version of the new Portable Stimulus Specification…

Reusing Existing Descriptions with New Languages

Reusing Existing Descriptions with New Languages

New languages and descriptions are a key part of moving the state of the art forward in a given domain….

DAC 54 Spotlight on “Portable Stimulus”

DAC 54 Spotlight on “Portable Stimulus”

Accellera’s Emerging Portable Stimulus Standard Is Pervasive at DAC 54 For the past few years, Accellera’s Portable Stimulus Working Group…