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 ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the implications of having an executable specification that drives verification with Hagai Arbel, chief executive officer for VTool; Adnan Hamid, chief ...

To test complex devices, test engineers must rely on the vector sets generated by verification engineers. Unfortunately, verification engineers—who work in a software simulation environment—often have ...

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 ...

It’s time to put to rest 11 of the most common myths about verification intellectual property (VIP). SmartDV’s Bipul Talukdar, Director of Applications Engineering, explains why it’s used in a ...

With 68% of the ASICs going through respins and 83% of the FPGA designs failing the first time around, verification poses interesting challenges. It’s also not a secret that nearly 60-70% of the cost ...

Enthusiast and frequent leak-spotter Gray (@Olrak29_ on Xwitter) spied a fresh job posting from Intel that's got the tight-knit community of hardware nerds buzzing with speculation on Chipzilla's ...