Source: Dataquest/Gartner Group Inc. FORM AND FUNCTION: The formal verification EDA market segment should grow 40 percent this year and 40 percent next year. Research Triangle Park, N.C.—Formal ...

Formal verification technology, also known as formal property checking, has been in existence since the early 1990s. Still, it’s only in the past five years that it has made big strides in the last ...

Formal verification is an automatic checking methodology that catches many common design errors and can uncover ambiguities in the design. Formal verification is the process of verifying the ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...

The first time I came into contact with the concepts of a digital hardware description language (HDL) and digital logic simulation, I inherently understood how it all “worked.” The idea that the ...

Verification continues to be a challenge for chip designers. As chips get bigger, the verification challenges get worse, and the chances that the chips will be fabricated with bugs will increase if ...

Verification of complex system-on-chip (SoC) designs, especially in the networking space, is an enormous challenge. Traditional simulation-based verification techniques are being pushed past their ...

Formal verification associated with assertions is a well known approach to functional verification of SoC digital circuits. This technique bears several advantages over dynamic-based solutions, but ...