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When we spend hours, days, or even weeks putting our hearts and minds into creating something, we have a tendency to emphasize its strengths and minimize its weaknesses. This is why verification engineers have a blind spot for their own verification platforms. This blind spot, or bias, often leads to overlooking those areas where bugs may lurk, only to emerge at the worst possible time when errors are most costly and take longer to fix. Compounding the problem is that these “late bugs” become progressively more expensive to detect, fix, and revalidate as the design under test (DUT) grows in complexity and the project nears completion.
Every verification engineer has learned this lesson one way or another. Every verification engineer
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