Every design verification technique requires coverage metrics to gauge progress, assess effectiveness, and help determine when the design is robust enough for tapeout. At every step of the way and ...

Achieving efficient bug discovery and coverage closure is essential to prevent issues from reaching silicon.

The huge undertaking of verifying a system-on-chip (SoC) design has challenged engineers for more than 20 years –– the amount of time spent on it hasn’t varied much from between 50-70% of the entire ...

PARTNER CONTENT Given the size and complexity of modern semiconductor designs, functional verification has become a dominant phase in the development cycle. Coverage lies at the very heart of this ...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov. 20, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Breker Verification Systems today confirmed its RISC-V functional verification solutions were pivotal for verification of the NOEL-V, one of ...

Even with the billions of dollars spent on R&D for EDA tools, and tens of billions more on verification labor, only 30% to 50% of ASIC designs are first time right, according to Wilson Research Group ...

This article formalizes the concept of best possible verification quality — completeness — and describes a methodology, field-proven on many complex module and intellectual property (IP) designs, that ...

Complete range of tests for the entire RISC-V core verification stack from ISA to system-level interaction and performance Test Suite Synthesis AI Technology tracks complex, un-predictable bugs and ...