Monthly Archives: May 2012

Unit Testing And TDD: Too Different To Compare

Posted on May 22, 2012 by nosnhojn

Here’s another post inspired by James Grenning and his “TDD with C” tutorial. Going through an abbreviated version of that tutorial last year in Salt Lake City at Agile2011 was what got me started with TDD. It inspired TDD month … Continue reading →

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Functional Verification Doesn’t Have To Be A Sideshow

Posted on May 15, 2012 by nosnhojn

This is another one of those challenge-the-way-we-think-about-functional-verification posts. The motivation behind it comes from a few different places. First is a blog posted on eetimes designline by Brian Bailey a couple weeks back called Enough of the sideshows – it’s … Continue reading →

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Unicorns, Leprechauns and Reusable Verification IP

Posted on May 14, 2012 by nosnhojn

There are times when I use agilesoc.com to step out on a limb and challenge the general consensus in hardware development. This post would definitely qualify as one of those times. I don’t think the reusable verification IP we’ve been … Continue reading →

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(Wasted) Effort Spent In Verification

Posted on May 7, 2012 by nosnhojn

I just spent a few minutes reading Harry Foster’s analysis of a functional verification study commissioned by Mentor Graphics and carried out by Wilson Research Group in 2010. There’s lots of good information in Harry’s analysis – there’s 9 posts … Continue reading →

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