Assertions are a powerful tool for design verification, but you need to be able to evaluate their effectiveness. Assertion-based coverage metrics provide an answer. During the decade of the 1980s, it ...

Abstract: Code coverage plays an important role in verification. It is essential to meet the target numbers for the code coverage metrics at the end of functional verification. The verification of a ...

System-on-a-chip (SoC) functional verification involves integrating multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks. Accordingly, understanding how to define, measure, correlate, and analyze appropriate IP ...

Coverage-driven verification enables the structured, measurable and manageable verification of today’s extraordinarily large and complex SoCs. Establishing predetermined objectives and planning for ...

Chip-verification teams often confront one fundamental question: “How well is the verification process exercising the design?” Attempts to answer this query have led to the development of several ...