The things functional verification engineers do may seem important, but they may not be useful to the company. If we want to be better engineers, then we should review our work from time to time and analyze whether what we did was worthwhile. The goal of this article is to discuss which activities in verification […]
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Modern testbench architecture
The aim of this article is to explain the what and why of modern testbench architecture. With the knowledge in this article, you should be able to understand how most of all modern verification frameworks are structured and how similar they really are. There are many hardware verification frameworks in this world, but the concepts […]
First silicon success is still a dream
Don’t beat yourself up if don’t get it perfect the first time. For the last 14 years, first silicon success rates have not improved. The expected number of tape-outs is still around 2. I analyzed the results from the 2012 and 2018 Wilson Research Functional Verification Study to see if anything has changed in the […]