In the world of electronic design automation (EDA), verification is the glue that holds everything together. It's the crucial step that ensures designs function flawlessly before hitting production, potentially saving companies millions. However, traditional verification methods have been plagued by inefficiencies and human error. Imagine a verification process that learns and adapts, continuously honing its capabilities through every design iteration. That's where Verisium SimAI comes in. This pioneering tool, powered by artificial intelligence, is set to revolutionize the verification process.
Harnessing AI for a Smarter Workflow
While automation has already made significant strides in EDA, AI elevates these improvements to a new level. With sophisticated machine learning algorithms, AI can analyze existing data patterns and refine its decision-making skills. This enables it to identify anomalies, gauge context, and provide deeper insights into data integrity.
Tools like Verisium SimAI are reshaping the verification landscape, making the process faster and more enriching. Recent studies indicate that companies utilizing AI-driven verification have enhanced their test coverage, leading to greater efficiency and a decrease in errors.
Our internal team at Cadence has adeptly incorporated Xcelium SimAI into their PCIe projects, yielding extraordinary gains in verification efficiency. This innovative tool has reduced the regression seed count by a factor of four to five, all while maintaining equivalent code coverage with significantly lower computing resource demands. By adopting an iterative flow that merges base and synthesized regression, the team has identified and addressed previously overlooked or infrequently tested areas across multiple base regressions. These practical improvements in verification efficiency demonstrate the real-world benefits of using SimAI in your workflows.
Elevate Your Verification Throughput with Advanced Features
What sets SimAI apart from its competitors? Its innovative differentiation features!
Coverage Maximization:
- Get meaningful help for that elusive last 1% coverage gap.
- Minimize functional coverage gaps, leading to a potential 40% increase in verification productivity by reducing the time spent writing directed testcases.
Bug Hunting
- Develop efficient bug-hunting scenarios to proactively mitigate the impact of the last bugs that your random simulations may encounter; shift left the bug hunting challenge.
Cousin Bug Hunting—a distinctive ability that leverages insights from challenging failures to identify cousin bugs—and comprehensive soak testing for the entire design or sections significantly enhances regression efficiency. This ensures a meticulous focus on detail and a thorough investigation of possible soft spots. Integrating SimAI into your workflow empowers you to confidently advance your designs, knowing that every element has been well vetted.
In an insightful CadenceLive 2024 San Jose presentation, Qualcomm shared its remarkable journey of integrating Cadence's Verisium SimAI into its development process. This strategic move has ushered in a new era of efficiency for Qualcomm, particularly in verifying complex 5G designs.
By leveraging the advanced capabilities of SimAI, Qualcomm has seen unparalleled improvements in its verification processes, experiencing an increase in regression efficiency ranging from 3X to 20X. The utilization of machine learning-powered regressions stood out for its powerful impact, offering impressive coverage per cycle while navigating through rare scenarios that traditional methods struggled to hit.
Qualcomm’s collaboration with Cadence on the Verisium SimAI project has marked a milestone in their pursuit of excellence, dramatically elevating the quality and efficiency of their design processes. Qualcomm's experience underscores SimAI's impact, dramatically improving test compression and compute capacity and enhanced bug-hunting capabilities. Through its precise and efficient approach, SimAI has proven to improve the verification process substantially.
Closing the Gap with Verisium SimAI
Are you exhausted from the endless pursuit of that elusive last 1% coverage gap? Verisium SimAI can help reduce functional coverage holes, reducing the number of directed tests that need to be written, thus significantly enhancing productivity. This tool excels in Coverage Maximization, allowing you to close the final 1% faster and more effortlessly than ever before. With SimAI expertly targeting and navigating through corner cases, you can ensure that no potential issues go unnoticed. Furthermore, its ability to identify regression gaps enables you to run 60% fewer tests while achieving the same coverage levels.
Join the Revolution Today
The future of EDA verification is here, empowered by AI. SimAI is not just an improvement; it represents a complete redefinition of how we approach verification processes and establish new industry standards. Don’t risk being left behind in a world where efficiency and accuracy are critical. Embrace this revolution and unlock the full potential of your design opportunities with SimAI.
Tune into the CadenceTECHTALK, "Coverage Gaps Meet Their Match," and discover how the innovative Verisium SimAI technology, in conjunction with the Cadence Xcelium Logic Simulator, can help you conquer coverage gaps and accelerate your verification closure.
Upcoming Events: Meet the Experts
Are you curious to learn more about SimAI and its transformative effects on EDA verification? Join us at one of the upcoming events where industry experts and satisfied customers will explore the capabilities and advantages of SimAI:
