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Going With The Flow – Overview

Going With The Flow – Overview

I had the opportunity to visit some of our customers in Europe recently to talk about their verification flow challenges…

DVCon China: Formal Technology Is Set for Growth in Asia

DVCon China: Formal Technology Is Set for Growth in Asia

At the recent DVCon in Shanghai, China, my colleague Jin Hou delivered the tutorial “Back to Basics: Doing Formal the…

Design & Verification IP Forum 2017

Design & Verification IP Forum 2017

VIP: Accelerating SoC Design Verification Your SoC designs have grown more complex, not just by the sheer number of transistors…

Portable Stimulus: Standard vs. Tool vs. Language

Portable Stimulus: Standard vs. Tool vs. Language

Although we had a very successful Portable Stimulus tutorial at DVCon US, there were still a couple of points of…

Portable Stimulus the Hot Topic at DVCon U.S. ’17

Portable Stimulus the Hot Topic at DVCon U.S. ’17

Just getting around to gathering my thoughts about the great week we had at DVCon U.S. As Program Chair for the…

The Walking LRM

The Walking LRM

My last blog post was written a few years ago before attending a conference when I was reminiscing about the…

Will UVM 1800.2 Leave You Behind?

Will UVM 1800.2 Leave You Behind?

We recently reached yet another important milestone in the life of the Universal Verification Methodology. The IEEE 1800.2 UVM Standard…

How Any Verification Engineer Can Quickly Create a Complex Testbench

How Any Verification Engineer Can Quickly Create a Complex Testbench

Over the past decade or so, the state of the art in design verification has taken a huge leap forward…

How To Connect Your Testbench to Your Low Power UPF Models

How To Connect Your Testbench to Your Low Power UPF Models

Face facts: power supply nets are now effectively functional nets, but they are typically not defined in the design’s RTL….