Find and fix problems early in the design cycle

摘要

Design verification requires significant time and resources from every design team. Its cost is directly proportional to the size of the design and the diversity of disciplines that the design's development involves. Designs that require hardware and software co-design or use both digital and analog techniques are also the most complex to verify. Advances in process technology enable engineers to use more gates with each successive decrease in feature size. Today, an average design uses millions of gates; many designs use tens of millions of gates; and state-of-the-art processes will soon allow 100 million gates on a single IC.