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SmartDV: Verification IP Got Bigger and Smarter

SI Team

Wednesday, March 4, 2015

Forward

When one is serving to semiconductor companies in a niche market like EDA, there is no room for complacency. SmartDV, based out of Bangalore India with it's USA office in San Diego, CA, offers high quality standard and custom protocol verification IP (VIP) products designed to work with coverage driven verification flow. And yet, SmartDV thrives to innovate and offer more to its clients. "We have partnered with top semiconductor companies to develop products for technologies which are still in
development stage; this helps our customers to reach market much faster as they have solution from SmartDV which is ready even before final protocol specification is
released," remarks Deepak Kumar Tala, Founder And CEO of SmartDV.

SmartDV provides over 75 mature verification IPs which come with complete compliance testsuite, comprehensive functional coverage models, and protocol checks to speed up the verification of designs. SmartDV VIPs are two to four times faster to compile and simulate compared to their competition.

"We have built our own language and compiler technology, using which we can write code/develop Verification IPs faster compared to any other company in industry," explains Tala. "Beyond this, we have development flow which has been fine tuned
to get Verification IP from specification to final products with high quality and in
short time with smaller team size." In short, they have automated almost all steps of
developing verification, including documentation.