Live Webcast: Verification Management and Planning
When verification is not under control, project schedules slip, quality is jeopardized and the risk of re-spins soars. What’s required is a common platform and environment that provides all parties – system architects, software engineers, designers and verification specialists – with real-time visibility into the project. And it’s not just to the verification plan, but also to the specifications and the design, both of which change over time.
There are three dimensions to any IC design project: the process, the tools and the data. Mentor Graphics Questa® Verification Management offers a comprehensive approach to verification management that handles them all. With the flexibility which allows enabling technologies to be deployed either alongside current legacy verification environments, incrementally replace them in a modular fashion or benefit from the power and integration of the complete solution.
Verification management should be based around a structured process but also requires the tools to allow this process to be automated. Given the rise in design complexity, it’s no surprise that data management is increasingly the foundation of any verification management activities. Questa’s verification management capabilities are built upon the Unified Coverage Database (UCDB) which was architecture with the requirement to allow all the relevant verification data to be stored in an extremely efficient format with open access.
What You Will Learn
- How to close the loop between verification plans and verification using electronic closure to ensure you hit your market windows on schedule.
- How to manage priorities, risk and keep resources on track.
- How to reduce the volume of data within the process while still having full visibility into the progress of the project.
- How to jumpstart the debug process by analyzing results across multiple tool runs.
- How reduce maintenance, improve automation and ensure your efforts are focused on verification and not environment infrastructure.
Who Should Attend
- Design and Verification Engineers and Managers
Details
- What: Verification Management and Planning
- When: Thursday 1st of December 2011
- Where: Online
- Time: 16:00 PM CET
- Duration: 1 hour
- Registration: Web
Achieving functional coverage closure in today’s complex designs is challenging and time consuming. It is common for a verification team to spend a disproportionate amount of time attempting to achieve the last 20% of functional coverage, by identifying corner cases manually, struggling to create overly complex constraints, and often times resorting to writing lengthy directed tests to target these cases
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