Formal methods for hardware design were commercialized more than 15 years ago, and there are now several established applications based on formal, mathematical analysis in the market. With years of ...

Each generation of IC design technology introduces new levels of complexity, and logic verification teams face a host of new challenges due to this dramatic rise in IC design complexity. As a result, ...

Today, teams often rely on disconnected logs, postmortems, and ad-hoc debug when failures emerge in the field. Lifecycle ...

Experts at the table: Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the state of functional verification with Mohan Dhene, director for architecture and design at Alphawave Semi; Andy Nightingale, ...

In the rapidly evolving semiconductor industry, keeping pace with Moore’s Law presents opportunities and challenges, particularly in system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Notably, the number of transistors in ...

Mentor Graphics's Veloce Solo, Trio and Quattro products are based on a new “emulation-on-chip” architecture enabling megahertz-class verification run-time speeds without compromising debug ...