Who
Dr. Pranav Ashar, Chief Technology Officer at Real Intent, whose advanced verification solutions accelerate electronic design sign-off, will present one of two keynote addresses next week at FMCAD – the Formal Methods in Computer-Aided Design conference.
What
“Static Verification Based Signoff – A Key Enabler for Managing Verification Complexity in the Modern SoC.” The 1½-hour presentation focuses on application-based verification, in which the verification process is partitioned by verification concerns. This important approach and new paradigm for managing verification complexity in billion-transistor SoCs – whose layers of complexity extend beyond the baseline complexity of their constituent components – makes the analysis and debug dimensions of the verification problem meaningfully solvable. It narrows the verification scope to issues such as clock-domain verification, power, and DFT, in which static formal analysis plays a key role. The presentation emphasizes the development of complete solutions and closure for the problem at hand as a whole, rather than just nuts-and-bolts technology such as simulation and ABV. For example, with hundreds of clock domains on a chip now, dedicated sign-off of clock-domain crossings requires verification tools specialized for this purpose. SoC tape-out no longer can be completed solely by functional simulation or static timing analysis; instead it requires a solution with formal verification at its core. The keynote presentation explores numerous reasons why static formal analysis plays a major role in the new application-based verification paradigm.
Dr. Ashar, with two decades of experience in EDA, previously spent 13 years at NEC Labs (Princeton, NJ) developing formal verification technologies for VLSI design. He has authored approximately 70 papers with more than 1,000 citations, and co-authored a book, Sequential Logic Synthesis. He has 35 patents granted and pending, and has taught graduate and undergraduate courses on VLSI design automation, VLSI verification, and VLSI design as an adjunct faculty member at Columbia University. He holds a Ph.D. in EECS from UC Berkeley.
When/Where
Conference: Monday, Oct. 21 – Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013
Keynote: Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013, 9 -10:30 a.m., Columbia Falls Ballroom (2nd floor)
University Place Hotel & Conference Center
310 SW Lincoln St.
Portland, Ore. 97201
+1.866.845.4647
About FMCAD
FMCAD 2013 is the 13th in a series of conferences on the theory and application of formal methods in hardware and system design and verification. FMCAD provides a leading international forum to researchers and practitioners in academia and industry for presenting and discussing groundbreaking methods, technologies, theoretical results, and tools for reasoning formally about computing systems. FMCAD covers formal aspects of computer-aided system design including verification, specification, synthesis, and testing. Real Intent is one of more than a dozen sponsors of this conference.
About Real Intent
Companies worldwide rely on Real Intent’s EDA software to accelerate early functional verification and advanced sign-off of electronic designs. The company provides comprehensive CDC verification, advanced RTL analysis and sign-off solutions to eliminate complex failure modes of SoCs. Real Intent’s Meridian and Ascent product families lead the market in performance, capacity, accuracy and completeness. Please visit www.realintent.com for more information.
Acronyms
ABV: Assertion-Based Verification
CDC: Clock Domain Crossing
DFT: Design For Test
EDA: Electronic Design Automation
EECS: Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
RTL: Register Transfer Level
SoC: System-on-Chip
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