EDA vendors are converging on System Verilog as the next step in designing increasingly complex chips, but whether the development language goes far enough to meet the future needs of developers ...

Warning of possible industry “havoc,” Cadence Design Systems has sounded the alarm about possible incompatibility between System Verilog 3.1 and IEEE 1364 standard Verilog. Cadence's motives are ...

A Cambridge firm has developed a tool that converts a Verilog description of hardware into C. Tenison EDA said its VTOC tool will allow designers to make efficient C models of their hardware, speeding ...

With the advent of a new era in verification technology based on an advanced HVL like System Verilog, the concept of random stimulus based verification was born, to verify today’s multi‐million gate ...

Michael What would you say the strongest improvements to Icarus were in the last year? Stephen Oh, my—there were so many. I think the most significant improvement has been the simulation engine. By ...