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Technical Info

This page contains technical information related to Functional verification, including application notes, white papers, and articles.

Books

• Comprehensive Functional Verification: The Complete Industry Cycle
  by Bruce Wile, John C. Goss, Wolfgang Roesner - IBM Corporation
• Functional Verification Coverage Measurement and Analysis
  By Andrew Piziali, Cadence Design Systems
• Co-Verification of Hardware and Software for ARM SoC Design
  By Jason Andrews, Cadence Design Systems

Application notes

	The Role of Assertions in Verification Methodologies: Using assertions in a simulation environment

	Creating a Functional Virtual Prototype

	Incisive Simulation Acceleration Deployment

	Creating Analog Behavioral Models

	Using Coverage

more application notes

White papers

	Using a SoC Functional Verification Kit to Improve Productivity, Reduce Risk, and Increase Quality

	Enterprise System-Level (ESL) Verification Solution Beyond "First Silicon Success"

	Reducing Block, Chip, and System Design Risk with a "Plan-to-Closure" Verification Approach

	Front-End Logic Design: Taking the Risk out and Putting Schedule Predictability in

	Accelerated Hardware/Software Co-verification - Speeds First Silicon and First Software

more white papers

Technical papers

Incisive plan-to-closure methodology: Design Team Verification

	The Importance of a Verification Strategy and Verification IP in SOC Design

	Scaling Up From Block to Chip to System Verification

	Metric Driven Process Management from Plan to Closure

	Scalable performance

Articles

04/28/08	New standards effort targets verification IP interoperability

04/28/08	Accommodating Change

04/22/08	What floorplan information is needed for synthesis

04/17/08	Cadence Announces Reentry Into Upstream Design in Japan

04/17/08	Validating false path timing exceptions

more articles

Cadence feature stories

12/03/07	Incisive Enterprise Verification Family Gets Big Boost In Performance and Productivity

08/27/07	New Cadence Kit Enables Engineers to Adopt Functional Verification Methodology Faster and with Less Project Risk

05/29/07	Enhanced Design-with-Verification Approach Speeds RTL Designs by Eliminating Verification Bottlenecks

12/04/06	Eliminate risks with predictable software, hardware and system-level quality

09/22/06	CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2006 - Proof that analog and digital do mix