People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

ImperasDV processor verification solutions enable ‘step-compare’ advanced functional verification including asynchronous events, plus verification IP reusability with RVVI Imperas is presenting a ...

Utility models are used extensively in China to protect the shape, structure or the combination of shape and structure of a product which is fit for practical use. Chinese inventors often look towards ...

OVL 2.0 Improves Electronic Design Quality, Supports Assertion-Based Verification with Verilog, VHDL, SystemVerilog and PSL NAPA, Calif. -- August 23, 2007 -- Accellera, the electronics industry ...

A recent Aberdeen Group study showed that best-in-class manufacturers — those that get products to market faster with the lowest change costs — build about half the number of physical prototypes than ...

I like to design the UI while writing the functional spec, this gives me a feel for what the user is going to have to do to complete a given task, and allows me to streamline the operation of the ...

The treatment of functional features in design patents was discussed in the recent Federal Circuit case for Sport Dimension, Inc. v. The Coleman Company, Inc., Case No. 15-1553 (Fed. Cir. 2016). The ...