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The first ISO 26262 certified blog post!

The first ISO 26262 certified blog post!

With ISO 26262 getting so much attention it is little wonder that ISO terms like Qualification and Tool Confidence Level…

Portable Stimulus Taking Center Stage at DAC

Portable Stimulus Taking Center Stage at DAC

Living on the cutting edge, as I do, I’ve been focusing most of my attention recently on the problem of…

Standards, Partners and Industry Collaboration Update

Standards, Partners and Industry Collaboration Update

Join us at the 53rd Design Automation Conference DAC is always a time of jam-packed activity with multiple events that…

5 Things I Learned at the 2016 SAE World Congress

5 Things I Learned at the 2016 SAE World Congress

A few weeks ago I had the honor of presenting a paper related to my prior Verification Horizons blog posts…

2016 Bangalore edition of Mentor’s Forum for Verification is round the corner

2016 Bangalore edition of Mentor’s Forum for Verification is round the corner

Just over a decade ago, Mentor Graphics had initiated a technology forum in India called the ‘EDA Tech Forum’, this…

UVM: The Value of Flexibility

UVM: The Value of Flexibility

Having been deeply involved with Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) from its inception, and before that, with OVM from its secret-meetings-in-a-hidden-hotel-room…

Still waiting… It’s Friday afternoon, and I don’t have my RTL

Still waiting… It’s Friday afternoon, and I don’t have my RTL

Using SystemVerilog to model RTL behavior in a pinch or anytime A couple weeks ago, sitting here in California on…

FPGA Prototyping is coming home

FPGA Prototyping is coming home

Does anybody remember Daisy PLDMaster? Okay, Methuselah, you can put your hand down now. Some time back in the late…

No to Know VIP – Validated!

No to Know VIP – Validated!

We have talked about how one can go from ‘No to Know VIP’ in my 3 part series and how…