ASIC Verification: Who is better Verification Engineer? You or Your Customer?

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Who is better Verification Engineer? You or Your Customer?

Why is it that after months of directed and random testing, we were not able to find a bug that our customer found within days of receiving samples? Is there anything wrong with our directed and random testing? Could it be that we didn't run our simulation long enough? Could the bug have been discovered by using better functional coverage?

This article will answers to all those questions by analyzing past mistakes and proposing an effective way of writing a verification plan.

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