Everyone is familiar with the old adage about what you get when you assume something—probably not appropriate for print, but there is little doubt of what you are thinking right now. Unfortunately, ...

Over the last twenty years, formal verification has grown from a niche technology practiced only by specialists to an essential part of mainstream chip development. Along the way, several advances ...

Driven by the need to objectively measure the progress of their verification efforts and the contributions of different verification techniques, IC designers have adopted coverage as a metric. However ...

Formal verification is being deployed more often and in more places in chip designs as the number of possible interactions grows, and as those chips are used in more critical applications. In the past ...

In August 2023, the EEOC reached its first AI-bias settlement: $365,000 paid over a hiring algorithm that automatically rejected older applicants. Meanwhile, Europe’s new AI Act threatens fines of up ...

However, in this article, I will limit myself to the top five important factors to remember about formal verification. 1. There are many types of formal verification. All are useful. When I talk about ...

How formal verification is able to find bugs before signoff. Formal verification’s ability to mathematically prove exhaustively that a chip design meets a set of assertions. Formal techniques are ...