EDN

Early Verification and Validation in Model-Based Design

This paper discusses some best practices for repeatable and exhaustive verification in the Simulink environment. It describes how early verification and validation (V&V) in Model-Based Design can ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Do Necessary Tools Exist For RISC-V Verification?

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the verification of RISC-V processors with Pete Hardee, group director for product management at Cadence; Mike Eftimakis, vice president for strategy and ...
Embedded

Verification and Validation

Every product has defects. Finding them as early in the development process as possible is definitely something to strive for. Building quality into software as it's being developed is far more ...
MD&M East

Design Verification vs. Design Validation: Right Questions or Right Answers?

When it comes to verification and validation, medical device companies need to ensure that what they're doing actually makes sense. Known colloquially as "V&V," for many it feels like you're on the ...
Design-Reuse

Using PSS and UVM Register Models to Verify SoC Integration

Every aspect of designing, verifying, programming, validating, and documenting system-on-chip (SoC) devices is really hard. Semiconductor companies simply cannot hire enough engineers to create each ...
Design-Reuse

Imperas updates Free reference model riscvOVPsimPlus with new RISC-V P (SIMD/DSP) extension and Architectural Validation Test Suites

Imperas is the leading provider of RISC-V processor models, hardware design verification solutions, and virtual prototypes for software simulation. Imperas, along with Open Virtual Platforms (OVP), ...
EDN

Early verification and validation using model-based design

When The MathWorks introduced Matlab technical-computing software more than 20 years ago, many of the first users were control-system designers. Anyone who had laboriously inverted matrices by hand to ...