Overview
Formally Verify Your Design's Compliance to Popular Protocols
Optimized for high-performance execution and rapid debug, Cadence® Formal Verification IP (VIP) consists of libraries of assertion-based VIP for exhaustively verifying the compliance of a design under test (DUT) to a given protocol. With our Formal VIP, you can find critical bugs early on and shorten your overall verification schedule. All of our Formal VIP are optimized for high-performance execution in our formal engines and Jasper™ ProofGrid™ Intelligent Resource Manager, along with rapid debug with our unique Jasper QuietTrace™ debugging capability. The various VIP also work with our unique Jasper Visualize™ Interactive Debug Environment for early integration of your implementation and the kit and/or rapid protocol customization/extension. The Formal VIP includes reusable “recipes” to explore protocol functionality and intent based on interface events. The protocol-related properties, generated to support early exploration and verification of protocol specifications, are optimized for formal and plug seamlessly into the simulation environment.
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Key Benefits
Formal VIP Key Benefits
Exhaustively Verify Compliance
Verifies compliance to standard protocols with exhaustive assertion-based verification IP libraries
Plug and Play
Enables automated, encapsulated, plug-and-play capabilities
Increase Design Quality
Provides quality support for spec-compliant designs
Optimized for Formal
Optimized for Jasper Formal Verification Platform
Supports Leading Simulators
Also compatible with the leading simulators including Xcelium™ Logic Simulation