Semiconductor Engineering

Get To Know The Gate-Level Power Aware Simulation

The post-synthesis gate-level netlist (GL-netlist) based PA simulation input requirements are mostly the same as RTL simulation. However, the design under verification here is the GL-netlist from ...
EDN

Gate level simulations: verification flow and challenges

Simulations are an important part of the verification cycle in the process of hardware designing. It can be performed at varying degrees of physical abstraction: In many companies RTL simulations is ...
EDN

DDR interface gate-level simulation advantages

No matter how advanced Static Timing Analysis (STA) tools become, there are still a lot of advantages to running GLS, since it has the capability of uncovering a lot of hidden design issues which are ...
Semiconductor Engineering

Writing Reusable UPF For RTL And Gate-Level Low Power Verification

The Unified Power Format (UPF) is used to specify the power intent of a design. Once written, the UPF file is applied at every stage of the design cycle — starting with the RTL, then the gate-level, ...
Electronic Design

Extending Formal Verification Methodologies Beyond The Gate Level

In recent years, formal verification has become the verification methodology of choice for many designers and verification engineers. It's now in the mainstream marketplace, as it's easy to use, ...
Electronic Design

Facing Up To Today’s FPGA Verification Challenges

Fifteen years ago verification of FPGA designs was easy but as the size of FPGAs has increased so have the verification challenges, Jerry Kaczynski explains. Today it is not unusual for FPGA users to ...