Assertions are a powerful tool for design verification, but you need to be able to evaluate their effectiveness. Assertion-based coverage metrics provide an answer. During the decade of the 1980s, it ...

Every design verification technique requires coverage metrics to gauge progress, assess effectiveness, and help determine when the design is robust enough for tapeout. At every step of the way and ...

Coverage lies at the very heart of functional verification. Whether designing a single intellectual property (IP) block or a huge system on chip (SoC), verification teams need to know how well the ...

This example shows how to generate coverage for unit and integration tests using Maven and Sonar. It uses very simple techniques and should only take 10-15 minutes to get running in any existing Maven ...

Code coverage is one of the most widely used quality metrics in embedded software development. Nearly every team I start working with tells me they aim to reach 80%+ code coverage. In fact, many ...