We listen now a days a keyword very frequently in Functional Verification i.e. “Functional Coverage“. In this post, we’ll try to understand ‘What is Functional Coverage’, its application and benefits.

One of the fundamental requirement in Electronic Design is to put the Design into a known state after the power is switched ON. This process of putting the Design into a known state is technically synchronized & achieved using a dedicated signal popularly called “Reset” signal.

As we know that our chips now a days are loaded with large number of features hence the size of the designs are growing at a rapid pace. Modern SoC/ASICs are getting bigger & bigger in terms of gate counts as well as supported features. 

Today lets talk about UVM RAL. In this post, I will introduce about – What is RAL? and going forward I’ll post more about Why RAL is needed? and How to implement it?

Hi Friends, Today, lets get familiar about some popular SoC interface protocols those are more frequently used in modern Chips for different applications.

In my previous post, we learned about “What is UVM RAL?“. If you’ve not already gone through that post, I will encourage you to go through that post first. As a quick recap, in that post – we discussed about what are different types of registers inside the design,

What is OSAT?

OSAT stands for Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Test. This is a third-party service that suppliers around the world offer, which consists, as the name implies, of semiconductor assembly, packaging and testing of ICs (Integrated Circuits).

IC Insights’ April Update to the 2021 McClean Report describes how the sales growth rates of fabless IC companies versus IDM (integrated device manufacturers) IC suppliers have historically been very different (Figure 1). 

“Perception is reality,” we have heard this often. When an IC fails or the customer thinks that it failed, we must respond with an FA. Yet, to do that effectively, we must have accurate, pertinent information about the incident. That is the only way to avoid guesswork.

AnySilicon, the leading marketplace for ASIC service providers, announced today that IC’Alps, a fabless semiconductor company developing state-of-the-art fully custom Integrated Circuits (IC) combined with a complete 

Leuven, March 31^st 2021 – The semiconductor world is shaking. In the midst of the Corona pandemic, automotive OEMs had a decline of sales and stopped ordering chips. 

All electronic devices we use today ranging from cell phones, TV, computers, smart speakers, have one thing in common in their manufacturing process namely Silicon Wafer.

An Integrated Circuit (IC), also called a chip or a microchip is a set of electronic circuits on a single small flat piece (or “chip”) of semiconductor material, usually silicon. Modern ICs are very complex and contain millions of transistors on a single chip.