Research creativity brings commercialization reward by improving circuit verification

Dr. Andreas Veneris and his research team

Dr. Andreas Veneris, President and CEO of Vennsa Technologies and Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Toronto. Vennsa’s OnPoint™ product is the industry’s first and only automated debugging tool for complex integrated circuits that localizes the source of functional errors without any user guidance.

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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