Volume 2

Design teams are becoming increasingly concerned at the growing disparity between the capacity of silicon in the latest processes and the design and verification capabilities of simulation tools. A number of trends are now converging to enable a step function increase in verification to complement and extend the debug and verification capabilities of HDL simulators. […]

The efficient management and synchronization of design data is now a necessity and no longer something that is a ‘nice-to-have’. Design complexity continues to increase with one result being that development spreads across several groups (often in different places). A project may also have several thousands design files generated by various tools from different vendors […]