Article: Which Verification Engine?

Experts at the Table, part 1: No single tool does everything, but do all verification tools have to come from the same vendor?
by Ed Sperling

 

Semiconductor Engineering sat down to discuss the state of verification with Jean-Marie Brunet, senior director of marketing for emulation at Mentor, a Siemens Business; Frank Schirrmeister, senior group director for product management at Cadence; Dave Kelf, vice president of marketing at OneSpin Solutions; Adnan Hamid, CEO of Breker Verification Systems; and Sundari Mitra, CEO of NetSpeed Systems. What follows are excerpts of that conversation.