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Incisive Verification IP (VIP)

The Incisive® Plan-to-Closure Verification IP (VIP) portfolio delivers the industry's leading protocol verification solution. It is the only solution that addresses the full range of verification needs. It offers Universal Verification Components (UVCs) for advanced testbenches, transaction-based acceleration for high-level testbenches, assertion-based VIP (ABVIP) for formal, simulated, and accelerated block-level verification, and SpeedBridge rate adapters for emulation and in-circuit verification.

Incisive VIP offers the broadest and deepest verification IP solution for the complex protocols used in today's most demanding applications. These include PCI Express, AMBA AHB and AXI, Ethernet, USB, PCI, OCP, and SATA. Customers can also take advantage of the Cadence Verification Alliance Partner Program, which provides Plan-to-Closure—qualified VIP for another 20+ protocols, making this the largest VIP portfolio available. Incisive VIP is plug-and-play and configurable to each design under test. It also supports all IEEE-standard languages, enabling customers to use the most appropriate languages (SystemVerilog, e, Verilog, VHDL, SystemC) for their specific design and verification needs.

Compliance Management System
Compliance Management System


As an integral part of the Incisive functional verification platform, Incisive VIP maximizes productivity, predictability, and end-product quality, and it minimizes verification environment bring-up time. Incisive VIP is also highly reusable since it is based on the proven Plan-to-Closure Methodology. Customers can easily reuse the VIP to span the entire verification process, from block- to chip- to system-level verification and for derivative projects.

Another key differentiator of Incisive VIP is the Compliance Management System (CMS). The CMS automates compliance verification and reduces the resources and expertise required to achieve that goal. Using the CMS, customers will reach 70+% coverage with push-button ease while avoiding the most difficult aspects of compliance verification. For example, by generating complex and/or unexpected corner-case scenarios, the CMS eliminates most test writing. This means engineers do not have to create and manage the hundreds or thousands of directed tests required in alternative approaches. Beyond automating verification, each CMS also greatly simplifies interpreting and reporting simulation results. It provides quantified, metrics-based, high-quality data, enabling engineers and project managers to assess verification progress reliably. They can also evaluate the risk areas and accurately predict how much more work is needed to reach closure.

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