Achieving functional closure on register-transfer-level designs continues to be one of the greatest challenges for today's ASIC and system-on-chip design teams. One facet of that challenge is the goal ...

The SystemVerilog standard is the result of an industry-wide effort to extend the Verilog language in a consistent way to include enhanced modeling and verification features. By adding verification ...

Gaurav Gupta, Synopsys (India) Pvt. Ltd. Mandar Munishwar, Synopsys, Inc. Assertion language provides a way to express the properties and constraints for property based formal verification environment ...

Developing assertions from a specification is a difficult process. The availability of assertion IP is significant in reducing the verification effort and improving the design quality. We describe the ...