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As a quick update to ACC post, VCS’s 2009.06 has come out with a related technology called Coverage Convergence Technology (CCT) , read a user success at: Improve Verification Productivity with Synopsys Coverage Convergence Technology   And NuSym rocks as ever before in this domain with great user interest for the successive DAC. They seem to have a good technology, but my worry is will the customers pay extra $$$$ for it? Let’s wait and watch. But their technology as can be read from their WhitePaper is based on “Path Tracing” and sounds very solid. The real challenge is in “execution” – or implementing that technology in a solid code in an EDA tool. Perhaps if you have few Armenian folks (who wrote the code for Synopsys’s new “Custom Designer” product), that will help? – A separate entry on that product soon..   Srini

Migrating my old blog post to CVC’s homepage. Tune-in for an update (with DAC09 underway, didn’t you expect that anyway :-) ??)   Automatic Coverage Closure – my perspective Recently EDA tools are emerging in the area of “Automatic Coverage Closure” that promise a new level of automation in CDV/MDV/any_other_Buzz_word_Driven_Verification process. A significant name in this arena is nuSym, a relatively new EDA player. There have been few good reviews about them @ Deepchip.com. http://deepchip.com/items/0479-05.html http://deepchip.com/items/0473-06.html http://deepchip.com/items/dvcon07-06.html And another one @ SiliconIndia: http://www.siliconindia.com/magazine/articledesc.php?articleid=DPEW289996212 And very recently on VerifGuild: http://www.verificationguild.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=3102 I like Gopi’s post/comment b’cos I have the same opinion about CRV (Constraint Random Verification) – it catches scenarios/bugs that you didn’t envision – either via cons...