In 1999, artificial intelligence was barely out of the concept stage and the telecommunications industry had just ratified the IEEE 802.11 a and b wireless standards. No one in the semiconductor industry used the term open source. Verific was founded that year to provide VHDL and Verilog parsers and elaborators to serve as the common front-end to newly developed EDA tools.

As Verific celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2019 with its software in production and development flows throughout the semiconductor industry worldwide, the technology horizon looks dazzling. Verification companies are announcing new tools, technologies and methodologies to support chip designs for artificial intelligence, machine learning, 5G wireless, and RISC-V to name a few.