Keynote talk III: Industry pulse: Trends in function verification

Recent industry studies point to an accelerated rate at which traditional system-level functionality is being integrated into a single System on Chip (SoC). To address this increasing complexity brought on by higher levels of integration, the industry has been forced to adopt more holistic design and verification flows. For example, it is no longer sufficient to simply track coverage purely at the IP-level — ignoring other interactions related to software and power. This invited talk presents trends uncovered from a recent, large industry study, and discusses current and emerging challenges in the functional verification of electronic systems.