YOGITECH's Analog Mixed
Signal Verification Kit (AMSvkit) enables
an automated, coverage-driven verification environment
and methodology for top-and block-level mixed-signal designs.
The AMSvKit comprises an extensible set
of configurable, plug-and-play pre-verified verification
components that unify Specman Elite and a mixed-signal
simulator to create an Object-Oriented mixed-signal functional
verification environment.
The greatest obstacle to a System-on-Chip design team's
success is verification. Combine the
challenges of digital verification with the increasing
integration of larger and more sophisticated analog circuits
and the problem is getting exponentially worse. This trend
not only presents a challenge to the verification engineer,
but to the industry as a whole.
To date, the use of hand-coded models of manually-verified
analog blocks within a digital verification environment
has been sufficient to provide confidence in a mixed-signal
design to sign-off prior to submitting it for fabrication.
However, due to greater levels of integration, changes
in process technology and increasing market pressures
and risks, an automated and metric-driven methodology
is now required.
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