While the disciplines of functional verification and test serve different purposes, their histories were once closely intertwined. Recent safety and security monitoring requirements coupled with ...

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The quality of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is a major issue for design teams utilizing third-party sources for portions of their SoCs. Quality is even more critical for highly ...

People freely interchange the terms “test” and “verification.” It’s understandable when terms like testcase, testbench and device under test (DUT) are in conjunction with different types of ...

The Formal Property Verification (FPV) methodology often gets used in the last step of verification flow, after much time spent building a complex random constrained UVM (Universal Verification ...

The RISC-V open standard ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) offers developers the opportunity to configure the features and functions of a custom processor to uniquely address their target end ...