Design-Reuse

System Verilog + OVM: Mitigating Verification Challenges & Maximizing Reusability

Verification – has been becoming a nightmare for engineers with the increasing requirements and complexity of the design. Mitigating the complexity of a verification environment with the increasing ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Importance Of A Functional Verification Methodology

A good functional verification methodology is extremely crucial to the success of any semiconductor design project. Missed or late bugs can massively hurt market share, revenue, and brand name even ...
Electronic Design

Facing Up To Today’s FPGA Verification Challenges

Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy but as the size of FPGAs has increased so have the verification challenges, Jerry Kaczynski explains. Today it is not unusual for FPGA users to ...
EDN

Mixed-mode verification of DDR, LCD, and memory sub-systems: Verilog-AMS vs. SPICE

Editor's note: This paper is the third in a series covering the pros and cons of using a Verilog-AMS view with respect to a SPICE view for verification of SOC IP having an analog component. The first ...
Design-Reuse

NextOp Announces BugScope Assertion Synthesis for Progressive, Targeted Verification

SANTA CLARA, Calif., May 6, 2010 -- NextOp Software, Inc. today announced BugScope, the industry’s first assertion synthesis product to synthesize high quality assertions and functional coverage ...
EDN

Comparing Verilog-AMS vs. SPICE view usage for robust AMS Verification of Power Management Controller and Mode Transition

The SOCs produced today provide a high level of functionality, driving a wide range of applications, while becoming more and more cost effective. This means that the complexity of the SOC too is ...
Electronic Design

What’s the Difference Between VHDL, Verilog, and SystemVerilog?

Designers of electronic hardware describe the behavior and structure of system and circuit designs using hardware description languages (HDLs)—specialized programming languages commonly known as VHDL, ...