Although complemented by other valuable technologies, functional simulation remains at the heart of semiconductor verification. Every chip project still develops a testbench, usually compliant with ...

Most power supply designers have never used a functional language for simulation, but then most programers don’t even know what a functional language is. So why would a hardware designer go where even ...

With the increasing size and complexity of FPGA devices, there is a need for more efficient verification methods. Timing simulation can be the most revealing verification method; however, it is often ...

No single step in the development of semiconductor devices is more sensitive to speed than functional simulation. A modern system-on-chip (SoC) design simulates billions of cycles of operation in the ...

This paper discusses the functional verification of IP cores and problems which arise during their implemenation in today’s advanced applications. First, the usual approach to functional ...

We propose a structured methodology to allow flexible, accurate and fast system modelling at Functional Untimed Application Level. The methodology is built on 4 levels of abstraction, from the IP ...