As computer chips have become more powerful and sophisticated over the past few decades, so too has the task of ensuring that they are ready to meet the needs of the various markets that they serve. And in the opinion of Dr. Andreas Veneris, supported by many technical industrial roadmaps and reports, more than half of the effort that goes into verifying a chip’s design is taken up with many different debugging measures, an activity that promises to become exponentially more demanding as the complexity of chips grows.
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