Industry Data and Surveys
Every two years, Siemens EDA commissions Wilson Research Group to conduct a broad, vendor-independent survey of design verification practices around the world. Results of the functional verification study demonstrate an ongoing convergence of design and verification practices toward a common methodology.
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Featured Track
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2024 Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study: 7-Part Video Series
The complexity of semiconductor design continues to grow, making functional verification a critical challenge. This 7-part video series presents key findings from the latest Siemens EDA and Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, covering both ASIC and FPGA trends.
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Sessions
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Functional Verification Study - 2022
In this session, Harry Foster highlights the key findings from the 2022 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides his interpretation and analysis behind today's emerging trends. -
Functional Verification Study - 2020
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. -
Functional Verification Study - 2018
In this session, Harry Foster highlights the key findings from the 2018 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides his interpretation and analysis behind today's emerging trends. -
Functional Verification Study - 2016
In this session, Harry Foster highlights the key findings from the 2016 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides his interpretation and analysis behind today's emerging trends. -
ASIC/IC Trends in Functional Verification - 2014
Harry Foster discusses the IC/ASIC verification trends from the 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides some insight into its findings. -
FPGA Trends in Functional Verification - 2014
Harry Foster discusses the FPGA verification trends from the 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides some insight into its findings. -
Functional Verification Study - 2012
In this session, Harry Foster highlights the key findings from the 2012 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, and provides his interpretation and analysis behind today's emerging trends. -
Introduction to the Verification Academy
This session provides a common framework for all advanced functional verification tracks contained within the Verification Academy.
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IC/ASIC Trend Reports
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IC/ASIC Functional Verification Trend Report - 2024
The 2024 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study provides an in-depth analysis of trends in IC/ASIC functional verification. The findings reveal the mounting challenges of verifying increasingly complex designs, driven by the rise of SoC-class architectures, security, safter-critical requirements and asynchronous clock domains. Alarmingly, first-silicon success rates have declined to their lowest level in two decades, with only 14 percent of projects achieving this milestone. -
IC/ASIC Functional Verification Trend Report - 2022
This report presents those results from the 2022 Wilson Research Group functional verification study that were focused on the integrated circuit (IC) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market segments. The findings from this study provide invaluable insight into the state of today’s IC/ASIC market in terms of both design and verification trends. -
IC/ASIC Functional Verification Trend Report - 2020
This report presents the results from the 2020 Wilson Research Groupfunctional verification study, which were focused on the integrated circuit(IC) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) market segments. Thefindings from this study provide invaluable insight into the state of today’sIC/ASIC market in terms of both design and verification trends.
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FPGA Trend Reports
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FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report - 2024
The 2024 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study provides a detailed examination of trends in FPGA functional verification. The findings highlight the growing complexity of FPGA designs and the corresponding increase in verification challenges. While FPGAs continue to offer advantages such as flexibility and cost-effectiveness, their evolving use in applications like AI acceleration and system-on-chip (SoC) designs necessitates advanced verification methodologies. -
FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report - 2022
This report presents those results from the 2022 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study that were focused on the Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) segment. The findings from this study provide invaluable insight into the state of today’s FPGA market in terms of both design and verification trends. -
FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report - 2020
This report presents the results from the 2020 Wilson Research GroupFunctional Verification Study focused on the Field-Programmable GateArray (FPGA) segment. The findings from this study provide invaluableinsight into the state of today’s FPGA market in terms of both design andverification trends.
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Overview
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. The IC/ASIC portion of the semiconductor market is valued at about $186.6 billion. The IC/ASIC semiconductor market is expected to reach a value of $233.4 billion by 2024, growing at a compounded annual growth rate (CAGR) of 4.6% during this forecast period.
In contrast, the FPGA portion of the semiconductor market is valued at about $5 billion, and 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. While COVID-19 has had a negative impact in 2020 on a number of market segments (e.g., consumer and automotive), other market segments (e.g., data center computing, networking, storage, and communication) are experiencing positive growth required to support today’s growing work-from-home (WFH) environment. Ensuring functional correctness is still one of the biggest challenges for both the ASIC/IC and FPGA markets.
To quantify this, every two years, Siemens EDA commissions Wilson Research Group to conduct a broad, vendor-independent study of design verification practices around the world.