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Incisive functional verification
PRODUCTS
Verification management
Formal analysis
Testbench automation
Simulation
Acceleration/emulation
Analog-mixed signal
Verification IP
Plan-to-Closure Methodology
DESIGN TASKS
Enterprise system-level verification
Transaction-based system verification
Transaction-based acceleration
Assertion-based verification
Building an emulation environment
Verification Methodology for SOC's
Encounter digital IC design
Virtuoso custom design
Allegro IC-PKG-PCB co-design
OrCAD PCB design
System-in-package design
Design for manufacturing
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Assertion Based Verification
To increase your productivity when verifying complex designs, Cadence provides design teams with a complete assertion-based verification (ABV) environment that unifies software, languages, IP, debugging, and coverage. Integrated with the Incisive platform, ABV helps users define assertions correctly, enables early detection of bugs close to the source, and monitors for completeness through assertion coverage.

The Incisive ABV environment supports a variety of products:

Incisive Formal Verifier
Incisive Simulation
Incisive Palladium series of accelerator/emulators


Cadence also supports the following ABV languages and IP:

PSL (Property Specification Language)
SVA (SystemVerilog Assertions)
OVL (Open Verification Library)
Cadence IAL (Incisive Assertion Library)
Cadence VIP (Verification IP)