Recent assertion-standardization achievements hold the promise of improving verification efficiency and allowing formal verification to work with simulation. There are tools that support assertion ...

Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

Most of today's complex system-on-chip devices contain embedded processors; indeed some analysts insist that a chip must contain a processor even to qualify as an SoC. Quite often, the processor is ...

Many people are predicting that assertions will be the next big breakthrough to enable engineers to continue to design and verify larger and more complex designs. Assertion-based methodologies bring ...