2026 Functional Verification Study: Executive Findings

This paper reveals an industry in which processor-rich and accelerator-class designs, software-driven behavior, safety and security requirements, and increasingly complex system interactions are reshaping functional verification. First-silicon success continues to decline, FPGA production bug escapes have risen, verification consumes roughly half of project time, and most projects are behind schedule.

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