From my product development experiences, entering into Design Verification and Design Validation is always bittersweet. Exciting because yes, to get to Design Verification means that we have ...

Between the complexity of advanced node design verification and the competition to be first to the market, system-on-chip (SoC) designers no longer have the luxury of waiting until each sub-block of a ...

Why it's essential to combine sign-off accuracy, iterative feedback, and intelligent automation in complex designs.

Transaction level modeling (TLM) is gaining favor over register-transfer level (RTL) for design components because of its many advantages—including faster design and verification times, easier ...

A Perspective in National Science Review outlines a new paradigm for fully automated processor chip design. By combining ...

. Tadahiko Yamamoto is Chief Specialist, Design Methodology Development Group, at Toshiba Corp. . Norikazu Ooishi is Specialist, Design Methodology Group, at Toshiba Corp. Physical designers moving to ...

Escalating design size and complexity, more complex design-rule checks (DRCs), higher DRC rule count and increasing design-for-manufacturability (DFM) challenges are causing the physical verification ...

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...

After years of innovation in verification of increasingly complex should we now turn our attention to the design process itself? Since starting in verification in the early 90’s I have witnessed the ...

Autonomous vehicles are ushering in a new era of self-driving cars, taxis, trucks, and a host of other means of transport, which is having an enormous impact upon the fortunes of vehicle manufacturers ...