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Qualis Inc. has partnered with Sonics Inc. to produce a verification component for Verisity Specman Elite that is said to reduce the verification time of complex intellectual property and systems-on-chip that use the Open Core Protocol (OCP). The technology, based on Qualis' plug-and-play Domain Verification Component (DVC) architecture and verification platform, lets verification engineers build OCP-based verification environments that use Specman Elite and advanced methodologies.
The companies said the component provides advanced, constrained-random OCP transaction generation, functional-coverage information, transaction logging and scoreboarding. Sonics' proprietary protocol checking makes it possible to perform on-the-fly verification of compliance to the OCP protocol. According to the...