Assertions bring immediate benefits to the whole design and verification cycle; thus any challenges engineers face in coding and testing them are worth resolving. When a large number of assertions are ...

Data-communications equipment doesn't live in a silo. It lives in a network or other system with other devices and it most communicate with them. In other words, devices on a network or other ...

Assertions bring immediate benefits to the entire design and verification cycle. To use assertions effectively in the verification cycle, they need to be exercised for checking legal design behavior ...

Momentum around the PCI Express specification is building in the communication sector. From broadband to wireless to networking applications, designers across the board are looking to implement these ...