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LOCATION:Engineering Posters\, Level 2 Exhibit Hall
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SUMMARY:Formal meets Simulation: Accelerate Verification closure using Mul
 tiplatform technologies
DESCRIPTION:Anunay Bajaj, Amrita Patil, and Kirti Srivastava (Cadence Desi
 gn Systems, Inc.)\n\nThis Paper leverages practical usage of UCIe/Chiplet 
 systems as a live testimony -  Formal verification and simulation/emulatio
 n verification of designs and proposes combining them for better results.\
 n\n        1.        Formal Verification:\n        •        Detects bugs e
 arly and allows reuse of tools across platforms.\n        •        However
 , it struggles with large designs and deep-state exploration, making it le
 ss effective for complex scenarios.\n\n        2.        Simulation/Emulat
 ion Verification:\n        •        Handles large designs and deep-state s
 imulations effectively.\n        •        However, debugging issues can ta
 ke days due to time-intensive failure analysis.\n\nHybrid Approach: Combin
 ing Both Methods\n\nRunning formal and simulation/emulation verification t
 ogether offers the best of both worlds:\n        •        Catch Early Bugs
 : Formal runs can quickly identify simple issues.\n        •        Faster
  Debugging: Assertions from formal runs can be reused in simulations, stop
 ping at failures to save time.\n        •        Consistency: Using shared
  properties across both platforms ensures consistent checks and constraint
 s.\n        •        Accelerated Coverage: Merging formal coverage with si
 mulation coverage helps achieve faster verification at the system-on-chip 
 (SoC) level.\n\nThis hybrid approach shows results of both methods - Speed
  up and improve the overall verification process, ensuring more reliable r
 esults and hence improving TAT\n\n
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