Formal-Based Techniques

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Sequential Logic Equivalence Checking

In this course, you will be introduced to the concept of sequential logic equivalence checking and its common applications. You will also learn how to start with Questa® SLEC to verify design optimization, bug fix/ECOs, low power clock gating logic, and safety mechanisms.

Handling Inconclusive Assertions in Formal Verification

In this course, you will be introduced to techniques to help formal tools solve inconclusive assertions. You will also learn tool options to help convergence, introduce techniques for reducing assertion and design complexity.

Formal Coverage

Formal coverage is a hot topic these days. Simulation has a number of metrics for helping determine when verification is done. These include code coverage, assertions coverage, transaction coverage, and functional coverage to name a few.

Getting Started with Formal-Based Technology

This course introduces basic concepts and terminology that should be useful by any engineer wishing to mature their formal-based technology skills.

Formal Assertion-Based Verification

In this course the instructors will show how to get started with direct property checking.

Formal-Based Technology: Automatic Formal Solutions

After a brief introductory session outlining the general architecture of formal apps, in each subsequent session of the course will deep dive on a specific verification challenge and the corresponding formal application.

Formal Verification Sessions

Overcoming Today’s Verification, Supply Chain, and Legacy Technology Challenges Associated with FPGA-based Designs

In this session you will gain an understanding of the core challenges facing designers of FPGA-based devices. Everything from ensuring the functionality to dealing with FPGA supply chain issues to extending the life of legacy designs powered by old or obsolete FPGAs.

Formal 101 - Fast, Scalable Formal Verification Made Easy

In this session, we will give an overview of how to apply basic abstractions, how to set up & optimize constraints, and where and how to leverage Data Independence & Non-Determinism.

Formal 101 – Basic Abstraction Techniques

In this session we will teach about the types of DUT constructs that commonly cause trouble for the formal analysis, and how to apply time-tested techniques to safely abstract them away so that the formal verification run can rapidly reach closure.

Formal 101 – Data Independence and Non-Determinism Made Easy

In this session, we will show how with a little design knowledge and forethought on your part, you can leverage these two principles to cut down your formal analysis to a matter of minutes vs. hours.

Formal 101 – Exhaustive Scoreboarding and Data Integrity Verification Made Easy

In this session, we will show you how to use IEEE standard property checking code (SVA) and off-the-shelf formal tools to quickly and exhaustively verify data transport through the DUT matches the specification.

Formal 101 – Setting Up & Optimizing Constraints

Formal 101 – Basic Abstraction Techniques | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Siemens EDA 2021 Functional Verification Webinar Series

In this session we will show you how to write optimal constraints for formal analysis; and how to deliberately under- and over-constrain the analysis to learn more about the effectiveness of the constraints themselves, your test plan and formal coverage plan, and the DUT behavior.

Should I Kill My Formal Run? Part 1: Formal Run is In-Progress

In this session we will show you the information you can use to decide whether to continue or stop the formal job such as how to monitor the formal engines’ “health” in real time and why a given property analysis might be getting stuck.

Should I Kill My Formal Run? Part 2: Avoid Trouble and Set Yourself Up For Success

Should I Kill My Formal Run - Part 2: What You Can Do Beforehand to Avoid Trouble and Set Yourself Up for Success Session | Subject Matter Expert - Mark Eslinger | Academy Live Web Seminar

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.

How to Exhaustively Verify Register I/O Policies Without Exhausting Yourself

In this session, we will show how to employ an automated, formal-based flow to ensure complete coverage of your registers’ state space – without having to learn formal at all. The benefits of this approach are two-fold: you can exhaustively verify the specified behaviors and the complete absence of any illegal behaviors.

I'm Excited About Formal...My Journey From Skeptic To Believer

This web seminar documents an unlikely journey into formal for a verification engineer who’s spent an entire career using simulation.

Practical Flows for Continuous Integration: Making The Most of Your EDA Tools

In this session, we’ll teach you how to use a collection of tools – both formal and simulation – as part of a comprehensive approach to verifying RTL and testbench changes before releasing them to your team.

Automatic Formal Verification - Questa Static and Formal Apps

In this session, you will gain an understanding of the automatic formal applications that can be used to solve current design and verification challenges.

Reducing Area & Power Consumption with Formal-based ‘X’ Verification

Reducing Area and Power Consumption while Increasing Performance with Formal-based ‘X’ Verification Session | Ping Yeung - Subject Matter Expert

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.

Direct Formal Property Checking - Improving Quality and Time-to-Market with Formal

In this session, you will learn how formal analysis works, and you can create an effective "formal testbench" with very basic, easy-to-write properties.

Automated Formal-Based Apps - Improving Quality and Time-to-Market with Formal

In this session, you will learn how formal apps can help you address high-value verification challenges; finding deep bugs in complex logic, accelerating code coverage closure, validating low power clock gating and more.

How to Unearth Deep Bugs Faster and Cheaper Using Formal Bug Hunting Techniques

In this session, you will learn how to leverage formal analysis to find and fix as many functional bugs as possible, ultimately improving the quality of your end-product, and lowering the risk of re-spins.

How to Shorten Your Schedule with Interactive Formal Debug and Design Exploration

In this session, you will learn how to shorten your formal debug time and how using formal to explore design functionality.

New School Connectivity Checking

This session discusses the use of a new school formal verification method which can be easily applied to solve the problem of connectivity checking with detailed case studies of how this formal app was used to automatically verify connectivity and accelerate the debug process.

New School Coverage Closure

In this session, you will learn a new school formal verification method which automates the job of focusing coverage closure efforts.

Equivalence Checking for FPGA

In this session, you will learn the need and methodologies to apply Equivalence Checking for FPGAs, plus the advantages and challenges of stepwise netlist verification.

IP Security: Keys to Early Identification of Security Vulnerabilities

In this session we will demonstrate early security verification on a small module of intellectual property (IP) intended for integration into an IC. Using Methodics IPLM by Perforce’s key technology for IP management and OneSpin 360™ formal verification tools, our technical experts will jointly perform the process recently released for public comment in the Accellera Secure Annotation for Electronic Design Integration (SA-EDI) Standard.

The ABC of Formal Verification

This tutorial webinar covers formal methodology in detail focusing on the ABCs of formal: (A) abstraction, (B) bug hunting & building proofs, and (C) coverage in the context of property checking.

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