Verification is the single biggest challenge in the design of system-on-chip (SoC) devices and reusable IP blocks. Traditional verification methods struggle to keep pace with the ever-increasing size ...

Survey hardware design teams and you’ll find that the old saw is true: anywhere from 60% to 80% of the overall design cycle is consumed not with design itself, but rather with the nerve-wracking ...

SystemVerilog was supposed to be such a boon to verification engineers. By providing a Verilog-like language with extensions that made it easy to write transactors, assertions, and checkers, the ...