From my product development experiences, entering into Design Verification and Design Validation is always bittersweet. Exciting because yes, to get to Design Verification means that we have ...

. Tadahiko Yamamoto is Chief Specialist, Design Methodology Development Group, at Toshiba Corp. . Norikazu Ooishi is Specialist, Design Methodology Group, at Toshiba Corp. Physical designers moving to ...

Designing a complex chip today and getting it out the door on schedule and within budget — while including all of the necessary and anticipated features and standards — is forcing engineering teams to ...

Why it's essential to combine sign-off accuracy, iterative feedback, and intelligent automation in complex designs.

Escalating design size and complexity, more complex design-rule checks (DRCs), higher DRC rule count and increasing design-for-manufacturability (DFM) challenges are causing the physical verification ...

1. In a big company, doing ASIC design verification for a WCDMA modem for 3G cellular chips. 2. Small company, doing Embedded Software Programming. Working on the design and implementation of layer 1 ...

The SystemVerilog standard is the result of an industry-wide effort to extend the Verilog language in a consistent way to include enhanced modeling and verification features. By adding verification ...

As designs grow in size and complexity, the challenges associated with low power and the growing design and verification gap have created the need for a paradigm shift in the IP design and ...

When it comes to verification and validation, medical device companies need to ensure that what they're doing actually makes sense. Known colloquially as "V&V," for many it feels like you're on the ...

A look back at the history of design methodologies as they’ve progressed through various levels of abstraction shows that as the elements of a methodology emerge, acceptance is usually stymied by a ...