The ESL Edge

For several decades, the pace of technology development has continued to accelerate. Technologies that used to take years to see significant adoption now seem to happen overnight and the number of things that get integrated together keeps rising. But it seems equally important that everything we buy becomes obsolete as quickly as possible so that [...]

I am often amazed that any chips actually work. We all know that verification by simulation is based on a sampling of possible stimulus and we also know that the number of samples we provide is a tiny, tiny fraction of all of the possible stimulus patterns. Even so, verification is taking up a larger [...]