functional verification

Accellera Systems Initiative has published for open review version 2.0 of the Portable Test and Stimulus standard.

Speakers at this year's DVCon Europe called on the hardware community to find inspiration in software-development trends.

Functional verification for increasingly complex ARM-based designs is at the heart of the new consultancy partnership.

Developing a security assurance standard for IP faces numerous problems but Accellera working-group members are trying to find an answer.

In a panel session at June's DAC, Synopsys customers talked about some of the ways they make verification more efficient and bring technologies such as formal, emulation, and simulation together.

Accellera has published the first release of the Portable Test and Stimulus Standard (PSS), with tools suppliers following up with software support.

Accellera has published version 1.0 of the SystemC Configuration, Control and Inspection (CCI) standard.

The formal verification specialist will leverage its recent, successful certification by TÜV SÜD for functional safety solutions.

Traditional functional coverage has run out of steam and novel methods to improve the understanding of what tests are doing are needed to make progress. That is the view of Greg Smith, director of verification innovation and methodology improvement at Oracle.

IC Manage is expanding its work on big data in EDA with the creation of a labs program that aims to work with clients on novel ideas for analyzing the gigabytes of output from chip-design tools.