This may include such techniques as logic simulation, formal verification, emulation, or creating an equivalent pure software model (see Simics, for example).
Functional verification of a design is most often performed using logic simulation and/or FPGA prototyping.
These tasks are properly carried out during logic simulation or with a static timing analysis tool.
This is addressed by deriving the inputs for individual blocks of the chip from the results of logic simulation using a common set of chip-wide input patterns.
A prospective way to accelerate logic simulation is using distributed and parallel computations.
Initially, Valid built both hardware and software, for schematic capture, logic simulation, static timing analysis, and packaging.
Many techniques are used, none of them perfect but all of them useful - extensive logic simulation, formal methods, hardware emulation, lint-like code checking, and so on.
Earlier in his career, he developed foundational logic simulation and place-and-route technologies that continue to have far-reaching influence.
The immediate result was a considerable increase in the complexity of the chips that could be designed, with improved access to design verification tools that used logic simulation.
Logic-Level Power Estimation, often linked to logic simulation.