While the disciplines of functional verification and test serve different purposes, their histories were once closely intertwined. Recent safety and security monitoring requirements coupled with ...

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Software testing, verification and validation form the backbone of modern software quality assurance. These interrelated activities ensure that a software system accurately implements its intended ...

The quality of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) is a major issue for design teams utilizing third-party sources for portions of their SoCs. Quality is even more critical for highly ...

Last month at IBC2006 in Amsterdam, Pixelmetrix unveiled an IPTV test stream generator to assist in the process of evaluation, compliance testing and verification of networks, monitoring and equipment ...

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 Formal Property Verification (FPV) methodology often gets used in the last step of verification flow, after much time spent building a complex random constrained UVM (Universal Verification ...

The RISC-V open standard ISA (Instruction Set Architecture) offers developers the opportunity to configure the features and functions of a custom processor to uniquely address their target end ...

Hardware emulation is the only verification tool that can be deployed in more than one mode of operation. In fact, it can be used in four main modes, with some of them combined for added flexibility.