From my product development experiences, entering into Design Verification and Design Validation is always bittersweet. Exciting because yes, to get to Design Verification means that we have ...

When The MathWorks introduced Matlab technical-computing software more than 20 years ago, many of the first users were control-system designers. Anyone who had laboriously inverted matrices by hand to ...

Over the years, Electronic Design Automation (EDA) tools have matured considerably. They now aid in design and verification of all aspects of chip manufacturing. One area that has lagged behind is the ...

Verification and validation are two important steps in the creations of electronic systems and over time their roles, but how they play together is changing. In fact, today we are seeing a major ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — There was no disagreement about the need for better quality designs at a Design and Verification Conference (DVCon) panel here Wednesday (Feb. 16). But panelists debated the ...

Validation ensures that a part will operate correctly in end-user applications. Design validation is the task of testing a part or a system adequately to ensure that all parts or systems manufactured ...

Today, teams often rely on disconnected logs, postmortems, and ad-hoc debug when failures emerge in the field. Lifecycle ...

I recently attended an invited talk by a senior manager of a design group within a large networking company. He described the group’s verification flow and it quickly became obvious that hardware ...

Every product has defects. Finding them as early in the development process as possible is definitely something to strive for. Building quality into software as it's being developed is far more ...