Aldec's new unified, assertion-based Riviera-IPT hardware-acceleration platform enhances debugging capabilities and accelerates verification by supporting assertions in both a software and a hardware ...

There has been a lot of talk in the industry about the usefulness of assertions as part of a complete verification methodology. But there is something bigger going on here that many vendors are ...

Why is it still so hard to ensure good quality sign-off happens without leaving behind bugs in silicon? The answer, according to my colleagues at DVCon, is highly nuanced. The industry has been ...

Theoretically, the use—and subsequent reuse—of intellectual property (IP) should ease the pain of verification. IP lets designers break up the project into self-contained functional blocks, each of ...