“The ideal is to achieve comprehensive validation without redundant effort. Coverage metrics helps approximate this ideal by acting as heuristic measures that quantify verification completeness, and ...

Assertions are a powerful tool for design verification, but you need to be able to evaluate their effectiveness. Assertion-based coverage metrics provide an answer. During the decade of the 1980s, it ...

Coverage-driven verification enables the structured, measurable and manageable verification of today’s extraordinarily large and complex SoCs. Establishing predetermined objectives and planning for ...

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Every design verification technique requires coverage metrics to gauge progress, assess effectiveness, and help determine when the design is robust enough for tapeout. At every step of the way and ...

Coverage metrics tell us when a design has been thoroughly verified, or at least exercised to the point of diminishing returns. Rarely can every design artifact or design parameter of a highly complex ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 2, 2003 – Today Verisity, Ltd. (Nasdaq:VRST), the leading supplier of essential technology and methodology for functional verification, and 0-In Design Automation, the ...

Today's coverage technology exists today to create scenario models; automatically generate coverage goals; automatically generate test cases to hit those goals; and combine system-level metrics with ...