In the 1980s, designers verified their own or their peers’ designs by composing specific directed tests (stimuli) to exercise and check all design behaviors as they were developed. As design complexity grew, aided by synthesis and faster simulation, the engineering effort required to develop directed tests became an overall schedule bottleneck. The EDA industry responded with constrained-random simulation, which harnessed compute power to automatically generate abundant verification stimulus.
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