Today, teams often rely on disconnected logs, postmortems, and ad-hoc debug when failures emerge in the field. Lifecycle ...

AI-powered chatbots. Robotic manufacturing equipment. Self-driving cars. Bandwidth-intensive applications like these are flourishing—and driving the move from monolithic system-on-chips (SoCs) to ...

Functional testing of system-on-chip (SoC) software is difficult, especially when mature hardware doesn't exist yet. In this article Michael Orr, vice president of technology and product management at ...

Computational models and simulations have had an important role in engineering analysis since as far back as the 1960s. It is widely recognized that the use of modeling and simulation tools can make ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...

If functional verification already consumes most of the IC logical design flow, as some studies suggest, what's going to happen as chip complexity reaches 10 million or 100 million gates? The answer ...

Design for testability (DFT) works to make a circuit more testable to ensure that it was manufactured correctly. Alfred Crouch explains the purpose of DFT in his book, Design-For-Test for Digital ICs ...