San Jose, Calif. — Novas Software Inc.'s nLint IC coding-error-detection product now supports SystemVerilog. The tool previously supported Verilog and VHDL. “NLint analyzes code and gives pointers for ...

You don’t usually think of simulating Verilog code — usually for an FPGA — as a visual process. You write a test script colloquially known as a test bench and run your simulation. You might get some ...

A little over a decade ago, electronic system-level (ESL) methodologies were all the rage, and there were a number of language options that promised to raise the abstraction level for both design and ...

The key rule for chip design and verification is that bugs must be found and fixed as early in the development process as possible. It is often said that catching a bug at each successive project ...

System Verilog is considered the current standard for a combined hardware description and verification language, and has been welcomed with open arms since it was approved by IEEE in 2005. Its ...