Brian Bailey’s recent article on “Fixing Functional Coverage” in Semiconductor Engineering (http://semiengineering.com/fixing-functional-coverage/) polled experts from different companies about the challenges of catching all the bugs, utilizing assertions and expanding coverage to the entire system. This blog elaborates on the four points we made in Brian’s article about how formal can help with functional coverage. (more…)
Decoding Formal
Archive for August, 2014
Using Formal for Functional Coverage
Wednesday, August 27th, 2014Sponsoring Technical Advancement in Formal Verification
Wednesday, August 13th, 2014The Hardware Model Checking Competition (HWMCC) was conceived at CAV (Computer-Aided Verification) 2006 and first launched at CAV 2007. The goals were to encourage technical advancement of model checking algorithms and thereby their deployment in the industry to promote formal adoption for hardware design verification. (more…)