Learn formal solutions in fault-tolerant hardware verification that ensure predictable hardware behavior under all relevant operating conditions and fault scenarios. Once upon a time, hardware ...

Hardware for integer or fixed-point arithmetic is relatively simple to design, at least at the register-transfer level. If the range of values and precision that can be represented with these formats ...

Design-for-verification (DFV) using assertions has received much attention in the recent technical press. Coverage has ranged from standardization efforts for assertion languages to complete DFV ...

The ever growing complexity of systems-on-a-chip calls for more and more sophisticated methods of their design and verification. The major gain in SoC design efficiency resulted from wide adoption of ...

Formal verification of arithmetic circuits is a rigorous approach that employs mathematical techniques to ascertain the correctness of hardware designs implementing arithmetic operations. This ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...

As conventional simulation-based testing has increasingly struggled to cope with design complexity, strategies centered around formal verification have quietly evolved In this article, I review the ...

This paper discusses the functional verification of IP cores and problems which arise during their implemenation in today’s advanced applications. First, the usual approach to functional ...

It’s time to put to rest 11 of the most common myths about verification intellectual property (VIP). SmartDV’s Bipul Talukdar, Director of Applications Engineering, explains why it’s used in a ...

WILSONVILLE, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ:MENT) today announced new formal-based technologies in the Questa ® Verification Platform that provide mainstream users with the ...