For years the process of ASIC and FPGA design and verification debug consisted primarily of comprehending the structure and source code of the design with waveforms showing activity over time, based ...

Adding assertions early and throughout the ASIC design cycle is the best way to independently check that design code reflects the intended behavior as specified in design specifications and the ...

It is well documented and widely agreed that assertions can provide a tremendous benefit to design and verification teams by reducing and even eliminating debug – but their use is still not ubiquitous ...

With an eye toward accommodating assertion-based verification flows, Novas Software's latest Verdi debugging platform was extended to support assertion languages and the results of assertion-based ...

With increase in hardware and software content in today’s complex SoC, it becomes a necessity to verify such system from a system viewpoint. Providing a means to effectively debug such systems from ...

Recent assertion-standardization achievements hold the promise of improving verification efficiency and allowing formal verification to work with simulation. There are tools that support assertion ...

System-on-chip design introduces new problems to the design and verification process. Not only must designers deal with the sheer size of these designs, but they must also deal with a reduction in ...

Developers make assumptions about how our code will behave when executed, but we’re not always right. Without certainty, it is challenging to write programs that work correctly at runtime. Java ...