ED_EDA Alert Update_: Debugging SoCs is More Complex than Finding a Needle in a Haystack
EDA Alert e-Newsletter | September 16, 2008
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Debugging SoCs Is More Complex Than Finding A Needle In A Haystack
By Lauro Rizzatti, General Manager EVE USA, San Jose, Calif.
Do you remember 1964? That’s when Motown Records’ The Velvelettes, backup singers for Martha Reeves and the Vandellas, cheekily sang,“‘cause finding a good man, girls, is like finding a needle in a haystack.â€쳌 The song offers refreshingly sound advice 48 years later as the singers intone, “You’d better get yourselves on the right track.â€쳌 It seems that these days finding a bug in a system-on-a-chip (SoC) design has become significantly tougher than searching for a good man was in 1964. With engineering teams combining hardware with embedded software, they are forced to simultaneously sort out hardware and software issues, instead of just one or the other in a serial fashion. So that makes two haystacks, not one.
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Dr. Michael Siegel, OneSpin Solutions’ product marketing director, spills the beans on OneSpin's SystemVerilog Assertions (SVA) library, which gives users of the company's 360 Module Verifier the ability to capture timing diagrams as SVA assertions. Visit 
