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Part 3: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 3: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Effort Verification Trends (Continued) This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2016 Wilson…

Part 2: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 2: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Verification Effort Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2016 Wilson Research…

DVCon India 2016–Outstanding Program Awaits

DVCon India 2016–Outstanding Program Awaits

A great technical program awaits you for DVCon India 2016!  The DVCon India Steering Committee and Technical Program Committee have…

Part 1: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 1: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Design Trends In my previous blog, I introduced the 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study (click here). The objective…

Portable Stimulus Takes an Important Step Forward

Portable Stimulus Takes an Important Step Forward

As a leading proponent of Accellera’s work in the Portable Stimulus Working Group (WG) for a couple of years now,…

Understanding and Minimizing Study Bias (2016 Study)

Understanding and Minimizing Study Bias (2016 Study)

This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs that present the highlights from the 2016 Wilson Research Group…

Prologue: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Prologue: The 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

This is the first in a series of blogs that presents the findings from our new 2016 Wilson Research Group…

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

UVM: The Factory Powers Reuse

As I mentioned in my last UVM post, UVM allows engineers to create modular, reusable, randomized self-checking testbenches. In that…

How to Avoid Metastability on Reset Signal Networks, a/k/a Reset Check is the New CDC

How to Avoid Metastability on Reset Signal Networks, a/k/a Reset Check is the New CDC

It’s axiomatic that digital circuitry must initialize properly before it’s used. Once upon a time, verifying a design’s reset signaling…