Aug. 23, 2018 –
As design complexity has exploded, the verification effort has likewise grown exponentially, with many different types of verification being applied to different classes of design.
A recent panel discussion with leading chipmakers examined this topic in an effort to shed light on design health and quality, measuring the success of verification, knowing when verification is complete, being on the right track with metrics, amongst other things.
The theme posed to the panel at the Design Automation Conference was whether conventional verification metrics are running out of steam? Alan Hunter, senior principal design engineer at Arm quipped that Betteridge's law of headlines gives the answer: no. "Any headline that has a question mark in it, the answer is always no."