When reviewing the agenda of our upcoming Verification Summit here in San Jose this Thursday, the question came to mind of who can actually execute the required complex verification tasks. Can they ...

Agile methodologies, created to improve quality in software code, increasingly are being applied to hardware verification. This is less of a drastic shift than it might first appear. Developing a ...

Verification expert Dr. Lauro Rizzatti debunks the myths surrounding the two tool classes of HAV platforms—hardware emulators and FPGA prototypes. What are hardware emulators and FPGA prototypes? Who ...

Engineers have always relied on hardware to speed up simulation. Initially, it was considered a luxury used only by elite verification teams. But with 90-nm processes soon to go mainstream and ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Emulation and Verification Engineering (EVE) said Thursday (June 2) that it has completed integration of its hardware-assisted verification platform with the Novas Software Inc.'s ...

Five common questions often come up when chip designers and verification engineers ask me about hardware emulation. All are well-considered and answers are widely shared. Today, emulation is mandatory ...

People freely interchange the terms “test” and “verification.” It’s understandable when terms like testcase, testbench and device under test (DUT) are in conjunction with different types of ...

The world of the hardware design engineer has changed dramatically in recent years. Designers no longer sit and code RTL in isolation to meet a paper specification, and then wait for a hardware ...

Synopsys has expanded its hardware-assisted verification portfolio with the introduction of the HAPS-200 prototyping and ZeBu-200 emulation systems. These new systems utilize the AMD Versal Premium ...