Conference Program    Technical Session

THURSDAY, July 27, 2006, 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM | Room: 306-308
TOPIC AREA:  VERIFICATION AND TEST


   SESSION 46
  PANEL: Building a Verification Test Plan: Trading Brute Force for Finesse
  Chair: Sharad Malik - Princeton Univ., Princeton, NJ
  Organizers: Francine Bacchini

  The pain of functional verification is intensifying. Building the right verification test plan can reduce this pain - trading brute force for finesse - while enabling greater predictability, more aggressive innovation and late stage spec changes made with confidence. Users and suppliers debate the optimal mix of formal, simulation, hardware acceleration and emulation, examining ways to ensure new features aren't dropped pre-tapeout from 'inadequate verification'.

Verification Panel Extended Abstract


  46.1   PANEL: Building a Verification Test Plan: Trading Brute Force for Finesse
  Speaker(s): Doron Stein - Cisco Systems, Inc., Netanya, Israel
Raj S. Mitra - Texas Instruments Inc., Bangalore, India
Janick Bergeron - Synopsys, Inc., Ottawa, Ontario
Harry D. Foster - Mentor Graphics Corp., Addison, TX
Andrew Piziali - Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Parker, TX
Catherine Ahlschlager - Sun Microsystems, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA