Mentor Graphics and Verisity Team on Verification Tool Kits

Mentor Graphics Corp. and Verisity Ltd. announced a technology collaboration that will allow customers to quickly test Mentor Graphics® Inventra™ intellectual property (IP) functionality and helps ensure smooth integration of an IP core into a target design. Mentor Graphics joins Verisity’s Pure IP™ program and can now deliver verification toolkits based on Verisity’s Specman Elite automated functional verification methodology for its IP. The verification toolkit includes executable checkers and coverage scenarios that ensure correct IP integration. The toolkits act as an invisible wrapper around the IP, allowing customers to automatically check for adherence to the rules and flag incorrect usage as well as measure the coverage of the IP interface. The first core to be shipped with an e verification toolkit will be PCI Express. Source: PCBnewsline