In the realm of digital design, clock signals play a pivotal role in synchronizing the operations of various components. While clock division is a common approach for generating clock signals with different frequencies, an...
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Formal verification and functional verification are two complementary approaches to ASIC verification. Formal verification uses mathematical methods to prove that a design meets its specifications, while functional verification...
Introduction: In the realm of Design Verification, debugging stands as a crucial process for uncovering and rectifying issues that may compromise the functionality, reliability, and performance of complex chip designs. While the...
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With innovations in technologies and methodology, the benefits of formal functional verification apply in many more areas. If we understand the characteristics of areas with high formal applicability, we can identify not only...
I hope you started understanding assertions and their operators well with practical examples. Let’s start learning more operators in this post. Before starting part-2 of assertions operators and their basic examples if...
System Verilog assertions always help to speed up the verification process and it’s very powerful and widely used in the ASIC verification. Identifying the right set of checkers in the verification plan and implementing...
Immediate assertions use expressions and are executed like a statement in a procedural block. They are not temporal in nature and are evaluated immediately when executed. Immediate assertions are used only in dynamic...
An assertion is used to validate the behavior of the design. If the property that is being checked for in a simulation does not behave as per specification, then the assertion fails. Similarly if a property or rule is forbidden...
Nowadays we use to deal with modules of Verilog or VHDL or a combination of both. Mostly verification engineers are not allowed to modify these modules. But still, SVA addition to these modules is required, and easy to verify a...