Managing Functional Verification Projects


The adoption of advanced verification languages and methodologies requires evolution of project management techniques in addition to the change in engineering practices. Managers must be able to assess and manage key project elements such as team expertise, verification methodology, verification IP (VIP) selection and environment setup to successfully deploy high-level verification environments... » read more

VIP: Behind The Velvet Rope


By Ann Steffora Mutschler Some years ago, as engineering teams began to incorporate more protocols into designs and as those protocols grew in sophistication and complexity in order to deliver additional performance, the verification task grew concurrently. At the same time, the design IP market was growing as complexity drove re-use of components, along with verification components—most com... » read more

Exclusive Research: What’s Happening With Third-Party IP


Analog and mixed signal IP began closing the gap with digital core IP in design explorations in the first two months of this year, a clear sign that multicore systems on chip have emerged as the dominant semiconductor model and that the architecture requires both types of IP. While it’s too early to tell this year what effect that will have on overall design activity—the economy is the rea... » read more

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