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Countdown to DVCON 2014

Friday, February 28th, 2014

The countdown to DVCON 2014 has begun! With more exhibitors and attendees than ever before, new programs and technical sessions, longer exhibit hours, DVCON 2014 is shaping up to be another outstanding event for the industry.

At Oski Technology, we are excited to offer many opportunities to connect with verification experts in the industry at DVCON – share ideas, discuss problems and solutions related to formal technology and formal sign-off methodology.

• Monday March 3rd 5:00 – 7:00pm, Oski will join the inaugural DVCON Booth Crawl and offer healthy stacks – nuts, veggie sticks and wine, while we enjoy great conversations. Come and chat at the Oski booth #305. (more…)

Tags: #ARM, DVCon, DVCon 2014, formal and semi-formal techniques, formal sign-off, formal verification of cache coherency with ARM ACE/CHI protocols, Samsung Electronics, sign-off with bounded formal verification proof
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Verification Management from a Formal Perspective

Tuesday, February 18th, 2014

Recently, Gabe Moretti, contributing editor to Chip Design, wrote a lengthy article for Systems Design Engineering addressing an important topic, “Verification Management.” It included comments from Atrenta, Breker Verification Systems, Jasper Design Automation, Mentor Graphics, OneSpin Solutions, Oski Technology and Sonics on a series of questions from Gabe on how to manage today’s complex and time-consuming verification process.

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Tags: Chip Design, DVCon, Jin Zhang, Verification Management
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Serving a Need in the Formal Community

Monday, February 3rd, 2014

Oski Technology launched the quarterly Decoding Formal Club with the goal of creating an industry-wide, independent platform for all formal enthusiasts to share ideas, challenges and solutions so as to advance formal technology and promote formal sign-off in the industry.

On Jan. 23rd 2014, we had our second meeting in the Computer History Museum. 28 formal enthusiasts (many of them formal experts) gathered from 16 different companies including ACM, Broadcom, Cadence, Chelsio, Cisco, Ericsson, Ikanos, Jasper, MediaTek, Mentor Graphics, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, SMI, Synopsys and a stealth startup. Talks were given by Normando Montecillo from Broadcom on data integrity verification and Vigyan Singhal, Oski CEO, on Abstraction Models.

It was a very successful event as demonstrated by the anonymous survey results. Answers to the question “What are your primary goals for attending the event?” reinforced the original intention of the group’s founders, that is to facilitate knowledge sharing and networking among formal experts. (more…)

Tags: "Decoding Formal" Club, formal sign-off, formal verification
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