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I’m Excited About Formal…My Journey From Skeptic to Believer
Resource (Slides (.PDF)) - Nov 09, 2020 by
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ISO 26262 Fault Campaign Management
Resource (Slides (.PDF)) - Oct 29, 2020 by Jacob Wiltgen
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ISO 26262 Fault Campaign Management
Session - Oct 29, 2020 by Jacob Wiltgen
In this session you will gain an understanding of the core challenges executing an ISO 26262 Fault Campaign and a methodology to ensure maximum efficiency. Some additional text here
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Interactive Debug Techniques for UVM, SystemVerilog and RTL using Visualizer
Webinar - Oct 27, 2020 by Jason Polychronopoulos
This session will cover different techniques for debugging SystemVerilog UVM testbench and RTL source code while running a live simulation.
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Quantifying FPGA Verification Effectiveness
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Harry Foster
The 2019 global semiconductor market was valued at $385.4 billion after experiencing a 15% decline due to a 32% drop in the memory IC market, which is expected to recover in 2021 [1] . The FPGA portion of the semiconductor market is valued at about $5 billion [2] . The FPGA semiconductor market is expected to reach a value of $7.5 billion by 2030, growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.4% during this forecast period.
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Arasan MIPI® CSI-2-RX IP Verification Using Questa Verification IPs
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Vikas Sharma - Siemens EDA
This article describes the verification process of the ARASAN MIPI® CSI-2-RX IP core using Questa Verification IPs.
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Memory Softmodels - The Foundation of Validation Accuracy
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Ridham Kothari - Siemens EDA
As always, we must continue to reduce the time-to-market of SoCs and complex systems. An FPGA prototype implementation of these systems can be used as a basis for early software or firmware development, hardware-software co-verification and system validation, and all this can be achieved before actual silicon is available.
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Increasing Functional Coverage by Automation for Zetta-Hz High Speed CDMA Transceiver
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Karthik Bandaru, Priyanka Gharat, and Sastry Puranapanda - Silicon Interfaces®
The efforts to apply constrained randomization to create test cases is based on the developer or verification engineer’s perception of what test vectors are required and can easily lead to hidden bugs being overlooked. Traditionally, the coverage goals would have been reached by writing more test cases with unpredictable schedules, often impacting time-to-market goals. Functional coverage defines critical states and constrained randomization tests those states in unpredictable ways.
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Unified Approach to Verify Complex FSM
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Milan Patel - eInfochips, LTD (an Arrow Company)
The purpose of this article is to share a strategy on how to verify any simple or complex FSM in an organized, robust, manageable, and efficient way. To verify such FSMs thoroughly we need random scenarios that cover all the possible state transition conditions, corner and boundary conditions, and relevant functional behavior. For that, we require a strong base entity that helps to generate random scenarios to cover all FSM entry-exit conditions and erroneous scenarios easily.
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RISC-V Design Verification Strategy
Article - Oct 26, 2020 by Dr. Mike Bartley
As the RISC-V architecture becomes increasingly popular, it is being adopted across a diverse range of products. From the development of in-house cores with specialized instructions, to functionally safe SoCs and security processors for a variety of verticals – RISC-V adoption brings several verification challenges that are discussed in this article, along with potential approaches and solutions.
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Reducing Area & Power Consumption with Formal-based ‘X’ Verification
Webinar - Oct 15, 2020 by Ping Yeung
In this session we will share a comprehensive static and formal-based methodology employing this app that enables design teams to root cause ‘X’ issues early in the RTL design process.
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FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report - 2020
Resource (Paper (.PDF)) - Oct 13, 2020 by Harry Foster
This report examines the trends in functional verification for the field programmable gate array (FPGA) market segments identified in the 2020 Wilson Research Group study.
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IC/ASIC Functional Verification Trend Report - 2020
Resource (Paper (.PDF)) - Oct 13, 2020 by Harry Foster
This report examines the trends in functional verification for integrated circuits (ICs) and application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) as identified in the 2020 Wilson Research Group study.
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Functional Verification Study - 2020
Session - Oct 13, 2020 by Harry Foster
In this session, Harry Foster highlights the key findings from the 2020 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides his interpretation and analysis behind today's emerging trends.
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Stimulating Simulating 2: UVM Sequences
Webinar - Oct 08, 2020 by Chris Spear
In this session, you will learn more about UVM Sequences; creating classes, transactions flow and virtual sequences. In addition, Chris will share best practices with UVM sequence classes.
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ISO 26262 Bottoms-Up Safety Analysis
Resource (Slides (.PDF)) - Sep 29, 2020 by Jacob Wiltgen
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ISO 26262 Bottoms-Up Safety Analysis
Session - Sep 29, 2020 by Jacob Wiltgen
In this session you will gain an understanding of the core challenges performing safety analysis in today’s complex IP and IC architectures.
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Should I Kill My Formal Run? Part 2: Avoid Trouble and Set Yourself Up For Success
Webinar - Sep 01, 2020 by Jin Hou
In this session we assume you are about to kick off a formal analysis, and want to make sure you will avoid the most obvious pitfalls in setting up your formal testbench, the DUT, and the runner scripting.
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Stimulating Simulating: UVM Transactions
Webinar - Aug 26, 2020 by Chris Spear
In this session, you will learn how to create classes for UVM transactions, also known as sequence items. You will also be shown how to add new functionality to a transaction, by extending the class and much more.
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Verilog Basics for SystemVerilog Constrained Random Verification
Webinar - Aug 18, 2020 by Dave Rich
In this session we will review two of the most common issues when constraint solver results do not match your intent: 1) not understanding how Verilog expression evaluation rules apply to interpret the rules of basic algebra, and 2) not understanding the affect probability has on choosing solution values.
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Formal is the New Normal - Deploy These FV Apps in Your Next Project
Article - Jul 19, 2020 by Ajeetha Kumari, Hemamalini Sundaram, and Darshan Ballari, VerifWorks, LLC and CVC Pvt., Ltd.
Formal verification is now pervasive in many chip design verification projects. Key to this widespread adoption is the availability of automated “apps” that makes it easy to deploy Formal in hitherto simulation-only projects. We at VerifWorks have a long history of formal deployment at many design houses and have seen the challenges engineers face while adopting the same. We have also trained hundreds of engineers to use Formal with ABV (Assertion-Based Verification) through CVC.
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Understanding the SVA Engine Using the Fork-Join Model
Article - Jul 19, 2020 by Ben Cohen
SVA ( SystemVerilog Assertions ) is a powerful short-handed assertion language with many constructs; it is built as an integral part of SystemVerilog but with a specific syntax and sets of rules. Unlike a scoreboard that tends to focus on a model implementation that mimics the DUT, SVA addresses the requirements; that brings out a better understanding of the requirements, along with its weaknesses for lack of definitions.
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Bridging the Portability Gap for UVM SPI VIP Core Reuse From IP to Sub-System and SoC
Article - Jul 19, 2020 by Kiran Malvi, Priyanka Gharat, Past Dean Prof Sastry Puranapanda - Silicon Interfaces®
This article focuses mostly on the vertical reuse of the test intent from IP-block to Sub-System and study of reusability from Sub-system to SoC level. The example taken to demonstrate vertical reusability is a single master and slave SPI Core IP configuration. A UVM layered testbench is wrapped around the design to verify and validate proper functioning of SPI Core IP.
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PCIe® Simulation Speed-Up with PLDA PCIe® Controller for DMA Application
Article - Jul 19, 2020 by Akshay Sarup
PCI Express® (PCIe®) is a dominant technology for hardware applications requiring high-speed connectivity between networking, storage, FPGA, and GPGPU boards to servers and desktop systems. It is a robust technology that has evolved over decades to keep up with advancements in throughput and speed for I/O connectivity for computing requirements.
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Extending SoC Design Verification Methods for RISC-V Processor DV
Article - Jul 19, 2020 by Larry Lapides
As SoC developers adopt RISC-V and the design freedoms that an Open ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) offers, DV teams will need to address the new verification challenges of RISC-V based SoCs. The established SoC verifications tasks and methods are well proven, yet depend on the industry wide assumption of ‘known good processor IP’ based on the quality expectations associated with IP providers such as Arm or MIPS Technologies.