SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — As a functional-verification consultant, Steve Burchfiel once had to construct a verification plan from hundreds of pages of continually changing specifications. Convinced that ...

Medical device companies that identify quality problems early on can prevent product development costs from spiraling out of control, while also laying the groundwork for design verification and ...

The purpose of the verification plan, or vplan as we call it, is to capture all the verification goals needed to prove that the device works as specified. It’s a big responsibility! Getting it right ...

The complexity of today's system-on-a-chip designs creates serious verification challenges in various respects. It's increasingly difficult to write an effective and comprehensive verification plan.

Design verification has been the dominant portion of chip development for years, and the challenges grow bigger every day. Single dies continue to grow in transistor count and complexity. Advanced ...