Verification

November 6, 2017

Using sequential equivalence to verify clock-gating strategies

Sequential equivalence checking can be used to show that a block of sequential logic produces the same output for the same inputs after it has been modified by optimization techniques such as clock gating or register re-timing.
October 31, 2017
Ashish Darbari is CEO of formal verification consultancy Axiomise.

Doc Formal: The crisis of confidence facing verification

Why is verification still such a challenge in spite of all the technologies and techniques being brought to bear
October 30, 2017
Debug case study for ARM/AXI based design

Case study: Verifying and optimizing software for power on SoCs

How emulation was used to debug out-of-spec power on a multicore ARM design using the AXI bus.
October 27, 2017
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Catch multi-patterning errors clearly at advanced nodes

How to address increasingly complex patterning issues and debug them efficiently as design moves toward 12 and 10nm.
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September 14, 2017
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Silicon photonics moves out of the shadows

An alphabet soup of AI, HPC, 5G and the IoT has finally seeded creation of a design infrastructure for silicon photonics.
August 31, 2017
Ashish Darbari is CEO of formal verification consultancy Axiomise.

Doc Formal: The evolution of formal verification – Part Two

Doc Formal concludes his introduction to formal verification with a practitioner's view of the technology.
August 30, 2017
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Your next node: find lithography issues early with DTCO

Pattern-based design/technology co-optimization (DTCO) estimates lithographic difficulty during the early stages of a new process technology node.
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July 25, 2017
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Automating test from IP to SoC levels with portable stimulus

This introduction to the new Accellera standard includes a demo of portable stimulus in use to fully verify a DMA engine.
July 21, 2017
Ashish Darbari is CEO of formal verification consultancy Axiomise.

Doc Formal: The evolution of formal verification – Part One

Doc Formal begins a two-part series by describing the solid and well-established foundations of formal verification.
June 18, 2017

Portable stimulus

Accellera's Portable Stimulus standard aims to improve verification efficiency and the reuse of test IP across the entire design life cycle.

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