At ARF Design, we understand that the success of any VLSI project hinges on rigorous and thorough verification. Our VLSI Digital Verification services are designed to ensure that your digital designs are functionally correct, meet all specifications, and are ready for silicon. We deploy state-of-the-art verification methodologies and tools to validate every aspect of your design, minimizing risks and accelerating your time to market.
Effective verification starts with a solid plan. Our verification experts work closely with your design team to develop a comprehensive verification plan tailored to your project's specific needs. This plan outlines the verification strategy, defines testbench architecture, identifies key metrics, and ensures coverage goals are set to guarantee that every corner of your design is tested thoroughly.
We employ industry-standard verification methodologies such as UVM (Universal Verification Methodology) and OVM (Open Verification Methodology) to create modular, reusable, and scalable test environments. These methodologies allow us to efficiently manage complex verification tasks, from individual IP blocks to full system-on-chip (SoC) designs, ensuring that your design is verified with the highest standards of quality and efficiency.
Our team specializes in developing sophisticated testbenches that can simulate real-world scenarios and stress-test your design under various conditions. We automate testbench creation and execution to improve efficiency and reduce human error, ensuring consistent and repeatable verification results. Our testbenches are designed to be reusable and adaptable, providing long-term value across multiple projects.
For complex protocols and interfaces, we offer custom Verification IP (VIP) development and integration. Our VIPs are designed to accurately model industry-standard protocols such as PCIe, USB, Ethernet, MIPI, and more. By integrating these VIPs into your verification environment, we ensure that your design's interaction with external interfaces is thoroughly tested and validated.
Our verification services include both functional and formal verification to provide a comprehensive validation of your design. Functional verification involves simulating your design under a wide range of conditions to check for correct behaviour. Formal verification, on the other hand, uses mathematical methods to prove the correctness of specific properties within your design, providing an additional layer of confidence in its reliability.
Achieving thorough coverage is essential to ensuring that all aspects of your design have been adequately tested. We employ coverage-driven verification techniques to measure functional coverage, code coverage, and assertion coverage, identifying any gaps in the verification process. Our goal is to achieve near-100% coverage, ensuring that no part of your design is left untested.
In addition to functional correctness, we also verify the power and performance characteristics of your design. Our verification process includes power-aware simulation and analysis to ensure that your design meets its power targets. We also conduct performance verification to validate that your design operates efficiently under expected workloads, ensuring optimal performance in real-world applications.
Verification is not just about identifying issues-it's about resolving them effectively. Our team excels at debugging complex designs, using advanced tools and techniques to pinpoint the root cause of any issues that arise. We work closely with your design team to implement fixes and validate the results, ensuring that your design is robust and ready for the next stages of development.
To ensure ongoing reliability, we conduct extensive regression testing as part of our verification process. We integrate continuous integration (CI) practices to automate regression runs, ensuring that any changes to the design are thoroughly tested and do not introduce new issues. This approach allows us to maintain a high level of quality throughout the development cycle.
Our VLSI Digital Verification services are grounded in a deep understanding of digital design, cutting-edge verification techniques, and a commitment to delivering accurate and reliable results. With our thorough and systematic approach, we help you mitigate risks, reduce development costs, and bring your products to market with confidence.