Recent assertion-standardization achievements hold the promise of improving verification efficiency and allowing formal verification to work with simulation. There are tools that support assertion ...

Assertions and Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) are a hot topic, but many engineering teams remain unfamiliar with the benefits that assertions bring to the design and verification process. This ...

Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

Most of today's complex system-on-chip devices contain embedded processors; indeed some analysts insist that a chip must contain a processor even to qualify as an SoC. Quite often, the processor is ...

The term assert is a Java keyword that was introduced into the language with the JDK 1.4 release in February 2002. Java's assert keyword is unique in two very interesting ways: The Java assert is ...

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...