Simulations are an important part of the verification cycle in the process of hardware designing. It can be performed at varying degrees of physical abstraction: In many companies RTL simulations is ...

The post-synthesis gate-level netlist (GL-netlist) based PA simulation input requirements are mostly the same as RTL simulation. However, the design under verification here is the GL-netlist from ...

No matter how advanced Static Timing Analysis (STA) tools become, there are still a lot of advantages to running GLS, since it has the capability of uncovering a lot of hidden design issues which are ...

This paper describes a new methodology that automatically generates a chip design’s gate-level waveform from the RTL design environment without the need to bring up the gate-level environment. The ...

Many designers continue to perform timing simulation for gate-level designs. Through an add-on module for its Siloti Visibility Enhancement software, Novas Software now brings timing-accurate ...

Is gate-level simulation still necessary? Mentor’s Gordon Allan asserts it is, and gives a list of reasons why the pain is worth the peace of mind. Synopsys’ Aron Pratt concludes his series on ...