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 ...

Philippe Luc, director of verification at Codasip, talked to students of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) about what it is like to be a verification engineer. On one hand the UKESF ...

Today, project teams build huge verification environments, where verification consumes 40-70% of the resources needed in a typical cycle. Because a verification environment typically contains ...

Automation has become the backbone of modern SystemVerilog/UVM verification environments. As designs scale from block-level modules to full system-on-chips (SoCs), engineers rely heavily on scripts to ...

In the semiconductor sector, the profession of Verification Engineer has become particularly popular in recent years. Little taught as a specialty in engineering schools, this profession is ...

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 ...