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by Darron May, Product Marketing Manager, Verification Mgmt, Mentor Graphics and Abigail Moorhouse, R & D Manager, Mentor Graphics
INTRODUCTION
If you can't measure something, you can't improve it. For years, verification engineers have used "coverage" as a way to measure completeness of the verification effort. Of course, there are many types of coverage, from different types of code coverage to functional coverage, as well as many tools, both dynamic and static, that provide coverage information. Simply put, coverage is a way to count interesting things that happen during verification and the measure of coverage is being able to correlate those things that happened back to a list of things you wanted to happen (also called a verification
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