Simulation is Key in design verification process

The importance of simulation in the pursuit of absolute speed!

A casual conversation with an ex-insider of the high frequency trading sector reveals surprising details about simulation and their design-verification process

Accellera Day at DVCon U.S. 2024

DVCon U.S. 2024 will be a week packed with paper sessions, tutorials, panels, keynotes and more on the latest in…

UVM Debug? Just nature doing what it does

Bent Tools and other Horrors From the Garden and UVM Debug – or Are You Still Debugging with $display?

I can’t take credit for the great flowers in the garden. It’s the tremendous rain we’ve had in California this…

My Day At The Beach - Early

UVM Testbench Debug – A Day At The Beach – Right?

Some people think UVM Testbench Debug is a drag. But really, it depends. I think it’s a day at the…

SystemVerilog: Class Member Visibility

SystemVerilog: Class Member Visibility

Introduction Farmer Ted wants to keep track of the animals on his property and asks you to write the code….

DVCon USA 2022 How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Mixing Formal and Simulation Coverage

Preview of DVCon 2022 — How to Avoid the Pitfalls of Mixing Formal and Simulation Coverage

With eight papers in two separate sessions focused exclusively on formal verification, one could assert (pun intended) that this year’s…

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Leave the House With a Clean Design

Wouldn’t it be great if there were something that would stop you from leaving the house wearing mismatched clothes – I mean without a clean design?

Verification Horizons | September 2021

The September Verification Horizons is Now Online!

I’m really excited to share with you a very special issue of the Verification Horizons newsletter for September, 2021. The…

Performance Profiling How-To (Make My Testbench Faster)

Here’s the situation… You’re DV lead. You and your team are at month 10 of a 12 month development cycle….