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Verification Horizons Articles

SystemVerilog:

  • Understanding and Using Immediate Assertions
  • Easy Testbench Speedups
  • Reflections on Users’ Experiences with SVA, Part II
  • Reflections on Users’ Experiences with SVA, Part I
  • Standards Participation at Siemens EDA
  • Understanding the SVA Engine Using the Fork-Join Model
  • SVA Alternative for Complex Assertions
  • An Evaluation of the Advantages of Moving from a VHDL to a UVM Testbench
  • Reuse MATLAB® Functions and Simulink® Models in UVM Environments with Automatic SystemVerilog DPI Component Generation
  • Merging SystemVerilog Covergroups by Example
  • SVA in a UVM Class-based Environment
  • Bringing Verification and Validation under One Umbrella
  • Don't Forget the Little Things That Can Make Verification Easier
  • Assertions Instead of FSMs/logic for Scoreboarding and Verification
  • Top Five Reasons Why Every DV Engineer Will Love the Latest SystemVerilog 2012 Features
  • Relieving the Parameterized Coverage Headache
  • Better Living Through Better Class-Based SystemVerilog Debug

Debug:

  • Missing Your Buttons and Menus? Create Your Own
  • Getting to Know Visualizer, Part II
  • Getting to Know Visualizer, Part I
  • Questa Visualizer Adds Coverage Analysis to the Platform
  • Parallel Debug: A Path to a Better Big Data Diaspora
  • Certus™ Silicon Debug: Don't Prototype Without It
  • On-Chip Debug – Reducing Overall ASIC Development Schedule Risk
  • Increase Verification Productivity with Questa® UVM Debug
  • Questa® Visualizer Debug: Class-based Testbench Debugging using a New School Debugger – Debug This!

UVM:

  • Celebrating 10 Years of the UVM
  • Fun with UVM Sequences - Coding and Debugging
  • UVMF, Beyond the ALU Generator Tutorial Extending Actual Test Control of the DUT Inputs
  • Simplifying Assertion Validation Using UVM Callbacks
  • Complex Addressable Registers in Mission Critical Applications
  • UVM-based Verification of a RISC-V Processor Core Using a Golden Predictor Model and a Configuration Layer
  • UVM Tips and Tricks
  • INs and OUTs of CAN Verification—A Comprehensive UVM-based Solution
  • Solve UVM Debug Problems with the UVM Vault
  • Extending UVM Verification Models for the Analysis of Fault Injection Simulations
  • No RTL Yet? No Problem. UVM Testing a SystemVerilog Fabric Model
  • An Evaluation of the Advantages of Moving from a VHDL to a UVM Testbench
  • A Generic UVM Scoreboard
  • Small, Maintainable Tests
  • Please! Can Someone Make UVM Easier to Use?
  • UVM Testbench Structure and Coverage Improvement in a Mixed Signal Verification Environment
  • Dealing With UVM and OVM Sequences
  • Making it Easy to Deploy the UVM
  • Flexible UVM Components: Configuring Bus Functional Models
  • Monitors, Monitors Everywhere – Who Is Monitoring the Monitors?
  • OVM to UVM Migration, or "There and Back Again: A Consultant's Tale"
  • Three Steps to Unified SoC Design and Verification
  • On the Fly Reset
  • Relieving the Parameterized Coverage Headache

Verification IQ / Management & Metrics

  • Everything, everywhere, all at once: Big data reimagines verification predictability and efficiency
  • An Open Data Management Tool for Design and Verification
  • Verification Planning with Questa® Verification Management
  • Increased Efficiency with Questa® VRM and Jenkins Continuous Integration
  • Increasing Verification Productivity Through Functional Coverage Management Automation
  • QVM: Enabling Organized, Predictable, and Faster Verification Closure
  • ST-Ericsson Speeds Time to Functional Verification Closure with Questa Verification Platform
  • Mentor Has Accellera's Latest Standard Covered
  • Automation Management: Are You Living a Scripted Life?
  • Efficient Project Management and Verification Sign-off Using Questa Verification Management?
  • Process Management: Are You Driving in the Dark with Faulty Headlights?
  • Data Management: Is There Such a Thing as an Optimized Unified Coverage Database?

FPGA:

  • Quantifying FPGA Verification Effectiveness
  • Addressing VHDL Verification Challenges with OSVVM
  • FPGA Verification Challenges and Opportunities
  • Best Practices for FPGA and ASIC Development
  • Reuse MATLAB® Functions and Simulink® Models in UVM Environments with Automatic SystemVerilog DPI Component Generation
  • Best Practices for FPGA and ASIC Development
  • Four Best Practices for Prototyping MATLAB and Simulink Algorithms on FPGAs

Coverage Automation & Portable Stimulus

  • Increasing Functional Coverage by Automation for Zetta-Hz High Speed CDMA Transceiver
  • Bridging the Portability Gap for UVM SPI VIP Core Reuse From IP to Sub-System and SoC Using Portable Stimulus
  • Exercising State Machines with Command Sequences
  • Designing A Portable Stimulus Reuse Strategy
  • Creating Tests the PSS Way in SystemVerilog
  • Auto-Generating Implementation-Level Sequences for PSS
  • Selecting a Portable Stimulus Application Focal Point
  • Building a Better Virtual Sequence with Portable Stimulus
  • Creating SoC Integration Tests with Portable Stimulus and UVM Register Models
  • Make Your Constraints More Dynamic with Portable Stimulus
  • Getting Generic with Test Intent: Separating Test Intent from Design Details with Portable Stimulus
  • Smoothing the Path to Software-Driven Verification with Portable Stimulus
  • Portable Stimulus Modeling in a High-Level Synthesis User's Verification Flow
  • Automating Tests with Portable Stimulus from IP to SoC Level
  • Bridging UVM to the Portable Stimulus Standard with Questa® inFact
  • Improving Performance and Verification of a System Through an Intelligent Testbench
  • Saving Time and Improving Quality with a Specification to Realization Flow
  • A New Stimulus Model for CPU Instruction Sets
  • Intelligent Testbench Automation with UVM and Questa®
  • Portable VHDL Testbench Automation with Intelligent Testbench Automation
  • Software-Driven Testing of AXI Bus in a Dual Core ARM® System
  • Power Up Hardware/Software Verification Productivity
  • Is Intelligent Testbench Automation For You?
  • Automated Generation of Functional Coverage Metrics for Input Stimulus
  • Targeting Internal-State Scenarios in an Uncertain World

Low Power

  • Estimating Power Dissipation and Performance of End-User Application on RTL
  • Effective Elements Lists and the Transitive Nature of UPF Commands
  • A New Approach to Low-Power Verification: Power Aware Apps
  • Part 2: Power Aware Static Verification – From Power Intent to Microarchitectural Checks of Low-Power Designs
  • Part I: Power Aware Static Verification - From Power Intent to Microarchitectural Checks of Low-Power Designs
  • PA GLS: The Power Aware Gate-level Simulation
  • Understanding the UPF Power Domain and Domain Boundary
  • Artifacts of Custom Checkers in Questa® Power Aware Dynamic Simulation
  • Power Aware Libraries: Standardization and Requirements for Questa® Power Aware
  • Successive Refinement: A Methodology for Incremental Specification of Power Intent
  • PowerAware RTL Verification of USB 3.0 IPs
  • Taming Power Aware Bugs with Questa®
  • The Evolution of UPF: What's Next?
  • Evolution of UPF: Getting Better All the Time

AMS:

  • Democratizing digital-centric mixed-signal verification methodologies
  • The Democratization of Digital Methodologies for AMS Verification
  • "Hug the Debug" – Before It’s Too Late
  • Simplifying Mixed-Signal Verification
  • Stories of an AMS Verification Dude: Model Shmodel
  • Stories of an AMS Verification Dude: Putting Stuff Together
  • AMS Verification for High Reliability and Safety Critical Applications
  • Improving Analog/Mixed-Signal Verification Productivity

UVVM:

  • UVVM – VHDL Verification Methodology for Faster and Better FPGA and ASIC Verification
  

Verification IP:

  • Lane margining at receiver and its application through pipe message bus
  • Data Integrity through TLP Encryption in PCI Express®
  • Effective Resource Utilization in PCIe® Gen6: Shared Flow Control
  • Unblocking the Full Potential of SSDs Using Zoned and Key Value Namespaces
  • A Faster Approach to Co-Simulation Using Questa and VPI
  • NVMe-oF – Simple, Invisible Fabric to Cloud Storage
  • Verifying a DDR5 Memory Subsystem
  • Purging CXL Cache Coherency Dilemmas
  • Arasan MIPI® CSI-2-RX IP Verification Using Questa® VIPs
  • Memory Softmodels - The Foundation of Validation Accuracy
  • PCIe Simulation Speed-Up Using Mentor QVIP with PLDA PCIe Controller for DMA Application
  • Coverage Driven Verification of NVMe Using Questa® VIP (QVIP)
  • SATA Specification 3.3 Gaps Filled by SATA QVIP
  • Configuring Memory Read Completions Sent by PCIe® QVIP
  • Step-by-step Tutorial for Connecting Questa® VIP into the Processor Verification Flow
  • MIPI® CSI2 TX IP Verification Using Questa® VIPs
  • Converting Legacy USB IP to a Low Power USB IP
  • USB Type-C Verification: Challenges and Solution
  • Simplifying HDCP Verification Using Questa® VIP
  • Verifying Display Standards: A Comprehensive UVM-based Verification IP Solution
  • MIPI C-PHY™: Man of the Hour
  • Total Recall: What to Look for in a Memory Model Library
  • Nine Effective Features of NVMe® Questa® Verification IP to Help You Verify PCIe® Based SSD Storage
  • DO-254 Compliant UVM VIP Development
  • Memories Are Made Like This
  • QVIP Provides Thoroughness in Verification
  • Resolving the Limitations of a Traditional VIP for PHY Verification
  • Integrate Ethernet QVIP in a Few Hours: an A-to-Z Guide
  • Fast Track to Productivity Using Questa® Verification IP
  • Cache Coherent Interface Verification IP
  • Controlling On-the-Fly-Resets in a UVM-Based AXI Testbench
  • MIPI LLI Verification using Questa Verification IP
  • Caching in on Analysis
  • DDR SDRAM Bus Monitoring using Mentor Verification IP
  • Maximum Productivity with Verification IP
  • Verifying High Speed Peripheral IPs
  • NoC Generic Scoreboard VIP

Functional Safety / Safety Critical

  • Application of AI/ML to Optimize Fault Simulation Coverage
  • Functional Safety Verification Challenges for Automotive ICs
  • The Path to a Safety Mechanism on an Unsafe PCIe® Sub-Module Using Siemens EDA Austemper
  • Addressing the Trends and Challenges of Automotive IC Development
  • Effective Validation Method of Safety Mechanism Compliant with ISO 26262
  • SystemC FMU for Verification of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems
  • ISO 26262 Fault Analysis – Worst Case is Really the Worst
  • Getting ISO 26262 Faults Straight
  • It’s Not My Fault! How to Run a Better Fault Campaign Using Formal
  • EDA Support for Functional Safety — How Static and Dynamic Failure Analysis Can Improve Productivity in the Assessment of Functional Safety
  • Will Safety Critical Design Practices Improve First Silicon Success?
  • A Practical Methodology for Meeting ISO 26262 Random Faults Safety Goals in Automotive Semiconductor Products

Emulation:

  • Bringing 5G NR Radio Frame Generation and Analysis to the Veloce® X-STEP™ Product Family
  • Speeding OTN Verification Using Emulation
  • Hardware-Assisted Verification Through the Years
  • Veloce Hardware-Assisted Verification – Complete, Unified, and Progressive
  • Veloce Prototyping Solutions Accelerate Verification of HPC AI-Enabled SoCs
  • Why Hardware Emulation Is Necessary to Verify Deep Learning Designs
  • Three Main Components to Look for in Your Emulation Platform
  • Emulation – A Job Management Strategy to Maximize Use
  • 24 x 7 Productivity: Veloce® Enterprise Server App Does the Job
  • Accelerating Networking Products to Market
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution—Part III
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution – Part II
  • Hardware Emulation: Three Decades of Evolution
  • Emulation Based Approach to ISO 26262 Compliant Processors Design
  • Optimizing Emulator Utilization
  • Simulation + Emulation = Verification Success
  • Bringing Verification and Validation under One Umbrella
  • Virtualization Delivers Total Verification of SoC Hardware, Software, and Interfaces

Formal Verification:

  • Jumpstart your formal verification with a little help
  • A formal-based approach for efficient RISC-V processor verification
  • Back to the Future with Formal Property Checking
  • Technologist Interview: What Siemens’ Acquisition of OneSpin Means for Formal Verification – and You
  • Formal Etiquette for Code Coverage Closure
  • A Formal Verification Technique for Complex Arithmetic Hardware
  • Predictable and Scalable End-to-End Formal Verification
  • Formal Is The “New Normal” - Deploy These FV Apps In Your Next Project
  • Using Questa® SLEC to Speed Up Verification of Multiple HDL Outputs
  • Formal Verification of RISC-V® Processors
  • Deadlock Prevention Made Easy with Formal Verification
  • Formal Bug Hunting with “River Fishing” Techniques
  • Ten Rules to Successfully Deploy Formal
  • Formal Apps Take the Bias Out of Functional Verification
  • It’s Not My Fault! How to Run a Better Fault Campaign Using Formal
  • Debugging Inconclusive Assertions and a Case Study
  • Formal Verification: Not Just for Control Paths
  • How Formal Techniques Can Keep Hackers from Driving You into a Ditch
  • Minimizing Constraints to Debug Vacuous Proofs
  • Evolving the Use of Formal Model Checking in SoC Design Verification
  • Functional Coverage Development Tips: Do's and Don'ts
  • Formal and Assertion-Based Verification of MBIST MCPs
  • Starting Formal Right from Formal Test Planning
  • Life Isn't Fair, So Use Formal
  • Confidence in the Face of the Unknown: X-state Verification
  • Using Formal Analysis to "Block and Tackle"
  • The Formal Verification of Design Constraints
  • The Top Five Formal Verification Applications

CDC, Lint & RDC

  • Resolving metastability issues for multi-clock SOC environment for I2C
  • Out of the Verification Crisis - Improving RTL Quality
  • Don’t Forget the Protocol! A CDC Protocol Methodology to Avoid Bugs in Silicon
  • Comprehensive CDC Verification with Advanced Hierarchical Data Models
  • RTL Glitch Verification
  • Reset Verification in SoC Designs
  • RTL CDC Is No Longer Enough — How Gate-Level CDC Is Now Essential to First Pass Success

DO-254

  • Enabling Model-Based Design for DO-254 Certification Compliance
  • How Do You “Qualify” Tools for DO-254 Programs?
  • Deploying HLS in a DO-254/ED-80 Workflow
  • What is “Verification” in the Context of DO-254 (Avionics) Programs?
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for "Sufficient Elemental Analysis" in DO-254 Flows
  • Physical Verification of FPGAs in Accordance with an Aerospace DO-254 Methodology Flow
  • Simplified UVM for FPGA Reliability: UVM for "Sufficient Elemental Analysis" in DO-254 Flows
  • Complex Signal Processing Verification under DO-254 Constraints
  • Verifying Airborne Electronics Hardware: Automating the Capture of Assertion Verification Results for DO-254
  • DO-254 Testing of High Speed FPGA Interfaces

Verification Techniques:

  • The RISC-V Verification Interface (RVVI) – test infrastructure and methodology guidelines
  • Expediting Simulation Turn-around Time with Incremental Build Flow
  • Digital Thread, Digital Twin, And IC Development
  • Enabling RISC-V Based System Development
  • The Six Steps of RISC-V Processor Verification Including Vector Extensions
  • RISC-V Design Verification Strategy
  • Unified Approach to Verify Complex FSM
  • Extending SoC Design Verification Methods for RISC-V Processor DV
  • Detecting Security Vulnerabilities in a RISC-V® Based System-on-Chip
  • AI-Based Sequence Detection
  • Verify Thy Verifyer
  • A Hierarchical and Configurable Strategy to Verify RISC-V based SoCs
  • Automation and Reuse in RISC-V Verification Flow
  • Complementing Functional Verification Through the Use of Available Timing Information
  • How to Get the Maximum Out of Your Assertion and Coverage Based Verification Methodology
  • First Time Unit Testing Experience Report with SVUnit
  • The Verification Academy Patterns Library
  • Reusable Verification Framework
  • Does Design Size Influence First Silicon Success?
  • Unit Testing Your Way to a Reliable Testbench
  • Accelerating RTL Simulation Techniques
  • Hey You, Design Engineer!
  • Use of Iterative Weight-Age Constraint to Implement Dynamic Verification Components
  • Using Mentor Questa® for Pre-silicon Validation of IEEE 1149.1-2013 based Silicon Instruments
  • Interviewing a Verification Engineer
  • Non-invasive Software Verification Using Vista Virtual Platforms
  • The Need for Speed: Understanding Design Factors that Make Multi-core Parallel Simulations Efficient
  • System Level Code Coverage using Vista Architect and SystemC
  • VHDL-2008: Why It Matters

Popular Horizons Blog Posts

  • The Python for Verification Series
  • The Many Flavors of Equivalence Checking
  • Guidelines to a Successful ISO 26262 Lifecycle
  • Leave the House With a Clean Design

Read more Verification Horizons blog posts.

Verification Patterns

Environment Patterns:

  • BFM-Proxy Pair Pattern
  • Component Configuration Pattern
  • Dual Domain Hierarchy Pattern
  • Environment Layering Pattern
  • Façade Pattern
  • Parameterized UVM Tests Pattern
  • Resource Sharing Pattern
  • SW-HW Pipe Pattern
  • Utility Pattern

Order Property Patterns:

  • Precedence Chain Property Pattern
  • Precedence Property Pattern
  • Response Chain Property Pattern
  • Response Property Pattern
  

Stimulus Patterns:

  • Layering Sequence Pattern
  • Strategy Pattern

Analysis Patterns:

  • BFM Notification Pattern
  • Walking Pattern

Occurrence Property Patterns:

  • Absence Property Pattern
  • Bounded Existence Property Pattern
  • Existence Property Pattern
  • Forbidden Sequence Property Pattern
  • Universality Property Pattern

Technical Papers

UVM:

  • Why not “connect” using UVM connect: mixed language communication got easier with UVMC
  • What does the sequence say? Powering productivity with polymorphism
  • Transaction Recording Anywhere Anytime
  • UVM IEEE Shiny Object
  • UVM and C Tests - Perfect Together
  • UVM Sans UVM: An Approach to Automating UVM Testbench Writing
  • Are You Smarter Than Your Testbench? With a Little Work You Can Be
  • Slaying the UVM Reuse Dragon
  • Beyond UVM Registers - Better, Faster, Smarter
  • Sequence, Sequence on the Wall – Who's the Fairest of Them All?
  • Monitors, Monitors Everywhere – Who Is Monitoring the Monitors
  • Seven Separate Sequence Styles Speed Stimulus Scenarios
  • Boosting Simulation Performance of UVM Registers in High Performance Systems
  • Transaction-Level Friending: An Open-Source, Standards-Based Library for Connecting TLM Models in SystemC and SystemVerilog
  • Weathering the Verification Storm: Methodology Enhancements used on a Next Generation Weather Satellite C&DH Program

SystemVerilog:

  • Using Strong Types in SystemVerilog Design and Verification Environments
  • The Missing Link: The Testbench to DUT Connection
  • DPI Redux. Functionality. Speed. Optimization
  • No RTL Yet? No Problem - UVM Testing a SystemVerilog Fabric Model
  • Introspection Into SystemVerilog Without Turning It Inside Out
  • Jump-Start Portable Stimulus Test Creation with SystemVerilog Reuse
  • Easy Steps Towards Virtual Prototyping using the SystemVerilog DPI

Verification IP:

  • Effective resource utilization in PCIe Gen6: Shared flow control
  • Verifying a DDR5 memory subsystem
  • Coverage Driven Verification of NVMe Using Questa VIP
  • Five Common Pitfalls To Avoid While Verifying PCIe Based NVMe Controllers
  • Total Recall - What to Look for in a Memory Model Library
  • Verification IP Stimulus APIs - Are They Really Easy to Use?
  • Extending a Traditional VIP to Solve PHY Verification Challenges
  • Verifying Display Standards–A Comprehensive UVM-based Verification IP Solution
  • Using Test-IP Based Verification Techniques in a UVM Environment

Debug:

  • Questa Visualizer adds coverage analysis to the platform
  • Full-Featured SOC Debug Cross-Triggering

Low Power:

  • A New Approach to Low-Power Verification: Power Aware Apps
  • Moving Beyond Assertions: An Innovative Approach to Low-Power Checking Using UPF Tcl Apps
  • Reusable UPF: Transitioning from RTL to Gate Level Verification
  • Effective Elements List and Transitive Natures of UPF Commands
  • Low Power Apps: Shaping the Future of Low Power Verification
  • UPF Information Model: The Future of Low-Power Verification Today
  • Low Power Coverage: The Missing Piece in Dynamic Simulation
  • Random Directed Low-Power Coverage Methodology: A Smart Approach to Power Aware Verification Closure
  • Free Yourself from the Tyranny of Power State Tables with Incrementally Refinable UPF
  • The Fundamental Power States for UPF Modeling and Power Aware Verification
  • Stepping into UPF 2.1 World: Easy Solution to Complex Power Aware Verification

Portable Stimulus:

  • Results Checking Strategies with Portable Stimulus
  • Unleashing Portable Stimulus Productivity with a PSS Reuse Strategy
  • Managing and Automating HW/SW Tests from IP to SoC
  • Boost Verification Results by Bridging the Hardware/Software Testbench Gap
  • Tackling Random Blind Spots with Strategy-Driven Stimulus Generation
  • UCIS Applications: Improving Verification Productivity, Simulation Throughput, and Coverage Closure Process

Coverage:

  • Unraveling the Complexities of Functional Coverage: An Advanced Guide to Simplify Use Models
  • Debugging Functional Coverage Models: Get the Most Out of Your Cover Crosses
  • Coverage Data Exchange Is No Robbery…Or Is It?
  • UCIS Applications: Improving Verification Productivity, Simulation Throughput, and Coverage Closure Process

Formal Verification:

  • Understanding formal verification methods for use in DO-254 programs
  • Comparing formal and simulation code coverage
  • Formal verification for DO-254 and other safety-critical designs
  • How to avoid the pitfalls of mixing formal and simulation coverage
  • Using Formal Verification to Check SoC Connectivity Correctness
  • Formal Verification Experiences
  • It’s Not My Fault! How to Run a Better Fault Campaign Using Formal
  • Formal Apps Take the Bias Out of Functional Verification
  • Reset Verification in SoC Designs
  • Formal Techniques for Optimizing ISO 26262 Fault Analysis
  • Efficient and Exhaustive Floating Point Verification Using Sequential Equivalence Checking
  • Register Verification: Do We Have Reliable Specification?
  • Is Your Power Aware Design Really X-Aware?

CDC, Lint & RDC:

  • Scalable reset domain crossing (RDC) verification using hierarchical data models
  • Reset domain crossing for designs with set-reset flops
  • Systematic Methodology to Solve Reset Challenges in Automotive SoCs
  • Bringing reset and power domains together
  • Faster Reset Verification Closure with Intelligent Reset Domain Crossings Detection
  • Automating Clock-Domain Crossing Verification for DO-254 (and other Safety-Critical) Designs
  • Samsung: Clock-domain crossing aware sequential clock gating
  • Multi-mode clock-domain crossing verification enables analysis efficiency and accuracy
  • A CDC Protocol Methodology to Avoid Bugs in Silicon
  • Did power management break my CDC logic?
  • Out of the verification crisis
  • The Three Witches Preventing Glitch Nightmares on CDC Paths
  • A Specification-Driven Methodology for the Design and Verification of Reset Domain Crossing Logic
  • Clock-Domain Crossing Challenges in Latch Based Designs
  • Comprehensive CDC Verification Using Advanced Hierarchical Data Models
  • Systematic Speedup Techniques for Functional CDC Verification Closure
  • Power Aware CDC Verification of Dynamic Frequency And Voltage Scaling (DVFS) Artifacts
  • Accelerating CDC Verification Closure on Gate-Level Designs
  • Five Steps to Quality CDC Verification

Simulation:

  • Efficient Modeling Styles and Methodology for Gate-Level Design Verification
  • The Big Brain Theory: Visualizing SoC Design and Verification Data
  • Boosting Regression Throughput by Reusing Setup Phase Simulation
  • The Need For Speed: Understanding Design Factors That Make Multi-Core Parallel Simulations Efficient
  • Traffic Profiling and Performance Instrumentation For On-Chip Interconnects

Metrics:

  • Supercharge Your Verification Using Rapid Expression Coverage as the Basis of a MC/DC-Compliant Coverage Methodology
  • So You Think You Have Good Stimulus: System-Level Distributed Metrics Analysis and Results

Verification Management:

  • Improving Verification Predictability and Efficiency Using Big Data
  • Verification data analytics with machine learning
  • Increased Regression Efficiency with Jenkins Continuous Integration Before You Finish Your Morning Coffee
  • Bringing Regression Systems into the 21st Century
  • Are You Really Confident That You Are Getting the Very Best From Your Verification Resources?

Analog/Mixed-Signal:

  • Interpreting UPF For A Mixed-Signal Design Under Test
  • Equivalence Validation of Analog Behavioral Models

Functional Safety:

  • Intelligent requirements traceability for ISO 26262
  • Rambus RT-640 road to ISO 26262 certification
  • Similar but different – The tale of transient and permanent faults
  • Enabling model-based design for DO-254 certification compliance
  • Orchestrating an efficient ISO 26262 fault campaign
  • How do you qualify tools for DO-254 programs?
  • Push-Button FMEDAs for Automotive Safety - Automating a Tedious Task
  • Achieving Functional Safety for Autonomous Vehicle SoC Designs
  • Using An Automated Fuzzing Test Of A Virtual Prototype To Eliminate ECU Security Vulnerabilities

Emulation:

  • From Simulation to Emulation – A Fully Reusable UVM Framework
  • UVM and Emulation: How to Get Your Ultimate Testbench Acceleration Speed-up
  • Parameters, UVM, Coverage & Emulation – Take Two and Call Me in the Morning
  • UVM and Emulation: How to Get Your Ultimate Testbench Acceleration Speed-up
  • Off to the Races with Your Accelerated SystemVerilog Testbench

OVM:

  • Parameters and OVM - Can't They Just Get Along?
  • One Compile to Rule Them All: An Elegant Solution for OVM/UVM Testbench Topologies
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