To test complex devices, test engineers must rely on the vector sets generated by verification engineers. Unfortunately, verification engineers—who work in a software simulation environment—often have ...

Philippe Luc, director of verification at Codasip, talked to students of the UK Electronics Skills Foundation (UKESF) about what it is like to be a verification engineer. On one hand the UKESF ...

There are many ways to categorize engineers—to “slice and dice” them, if you will. I’m speaking figuratively, of course (we don’t want anyone to get any unfortunate ideas…especially since… the ...

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the implications of having an executable specification that drives verification with Hagai Arbel, chief executive officer for VTool; Adnan Hamid, chief ...

The pandemic accelerated the sharp rise in professionals working from home. Some people did well while others struggled. This dynamic was particularly acute in the semiconductor industry, which has ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A detailed survey of 137 engineers reveals which verification tools are in common use today, and how users feel about them. The survey is presented in a Design and Verification ...

More design is being done at the system level than ever before. The enabling technology for much of it is emulation. Emulation allows the register transfer level (RTL) source code to be used as the ...

We need to form a winning team and it's all about performance. We need to find a group of highly skilled people and equip them to perform with peak productivity, predictability, and quality. It would ...

Keysight Technologies and WIN Semiconductors have introduced a joint design workflow that aims to ...

ChipAgents, a leading provider of Agentic AI platforms in the semiconductor design industry, announced that it has joined the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Partner Network (APN), a global community of AWS ...