Developers make assumptions about how our code will behave when executed, but we’re not always right. Without certainty, it is challenging to write programs that work correctly at runtime. Java ...

Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

The SystemVerilog standard is the result of an industry-wide effort to extend the Verilog language in a consistent way to include enhanced modeling and verification features. By adding verification ...

Many people are predicting that assertions will be the next big breakthrough to enable engineers to continue to design and verify larger and more complex designs. Assertion-based methodologies bring ...

Assertions are increasingly important verification tools because they improve design quality and increase design verification (DV) productivity, resulting in faster time to market. Table 1 summarizes ...