Aldec Rounds Out ALINT-PRO CheckerDate: 2017/02/16 Type: In the NewsBy Bernard Murphy If there’s anyone out there who still doesn’t accept the importance of static RTL verification in the arsenal of functional verification methods, I haven’t met any recently. That wasn’t the case in my early days in this field. Back then I grew used to hearing “I don’t make mistakes in my RTL”, “I’ll catch that in simulation”, “My editor automatically sets the RTL up correctly” and variants on these confident statements of infallibility. Positions like these became much less frequent after IP reuse and SoC design took off. You might still feel the same way about your own code, but now you must work with RTL developed by someone no longer at the company, and integrate with other RTL developed by parties even further removed. How can you know what assumptions they made? You don’t have time to reverse-engineer this stuff in simulation, so do you just hope the other designers thought exactly the way you do when they built that code... For the rest of this article, visit SemiWiki.
