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  • Questa® PropCheck

Questa® PropCheck

Questa Property Checking (PropCheck) supports general assertion-based formal verification to ensure that the design meets its specific functional requirements. With support for PSL, SVA, and OVL, including multi-clocked assertions, PropCheck easily verifies even very large designs with many assertions; analyzing the behavior of the design vs. the desired behavior described by the assertions to identify all design states that are reachable from the initial state.

This analysis allows PropCheck to explore the whole state space in a breadth-first manner, in contrast to the depth-first approach used in simulation. PropCheck is therefore able to exhaustively discover any design errors that can occur, without needing specific stimulus to detect the bug. This ensures that the verified design is bug-free in all legal input scenarios. At the same time, this approach inherently identifies unreachable coverage points, which helps accelerate coverage closure.

Under the hood, PropCheck’s world-class, high capacity, high throughput engines effectively build on their respective strengths by cooperating with each other in real time; thus completing verification faster. Sharing a common language front end with the Questa Advanced Simulator and leveraging the integration with the Unified Coverage Database (UCDB), Questa PropCheck is the perfect tool to accelerate bug detection, error correction and coverage closure.

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Featured GUI Demos

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Overview

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Overview | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will be shown a top level overview of the Questa® PropCheck GUI.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Cone of Influence

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Cone of Influence | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn more about the Cone of Influence window features.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Debug a Firing

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Debug a Firing | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn how to debug a firing in the GUI.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Properties Tab

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Properties Tab | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn some of the features of the Properties Tab.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Property Editor

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Property Editor | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn features of the Property Editor.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Run Monitor/Details

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Run Monitor/Details | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn how to rerun Formal in the GUI.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Schematic

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Schematic | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn how to use the Schematic view.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Source Window

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Source Window | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn how to use the Source Window.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Waveform View

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Waveform View | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn more about the Waveform View.

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Run Formal

Questa® PropCheck GUI Demo - Run Formal | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger

In this session, you will learn how to run Formal from the PropCheck GUI

Featured Sessions

PropCheck - Formal Model Checking

PropCheck - Formal Model Checking Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Assertion-Based Verification Course

In this session we'll share some basic tips for getting started with direct property checking, how to setup the analysis for rapidly reaching a solution, and how to answer the question, “Do I have enough assertions?"

Questa® PropCheck Demo

Questa PropCheck Demo Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Assertion-Based Verification Course

This session will demo the Questa® PropCheck tool and will review features including the details window, properties window, along with source, waveform and schematic debug features.

Formal Coverage for Inconclusive Debug

Formal Coverage for Inconclusive Debug Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

In this session we’ll review what inconclusive properties are and why they happen. We’ll then look at some easy tool based methods to help resolve inconclusives.

Formal Coverage for Property Debug

Formal Coverage for Property Debug Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

This session will review the definition of a vacuous or uncoverable property and the main reasons why these property bugs exist

Formal Coverage vs. Simulation Coverage

Formal Coverage vs. Simulation Coverage Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Formal Coverage Course

This session will explore the various aspects of formal coverage. We’ll start by reviewing the major components of simulation coverage metrics including code coverage, assertions coverage and functional coverage.

Featured Papers & Articles

Formal Apps Take the Bias Out of Functional Verification

Every verification engineer eventually comes to realize that they need an easy way to overcome that bias and uncover those hidden or unforseen bugs.

  • Read more about Formal Apps Take the Bias Out of Functional Verification

Debugging Inconclusive Assertions and a Case Study

Formal assertion-based verification uses formal technologies to analyze if a design satisfies a given set of properties. Formal verification doesn’t need simulation testbenches and can start much earlier in the verification process. There are three possible results for an assertion after formal runs: “proven,” “fired,” and “inconclusive.”

  • Read more about Debugging Inconclusive Assertions and a Case Study

Formal Verification: Not Just for Control Paths

Formal property verification is sometimes considered a niche methodology ideal for control path applications. However, with a solid methodology base and upfront planning, the benefits of formal property verification, such as full path confidence and requirements based property definition, can also be leveraged for protocol driven datapaths.

  • Read more about Formal Verification: Not Just for Control Paths

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