In most design companies, the chip-level physical implementation teams responsible for design floorplanning in place and route (P&R) environments also manage top-level physical verification from the ...

Designs in every industry segment are built around standard interfaces; you probably can't find a complex chip that does not have some sort of standard interface such as PCI, PCI Express, DDR-SDRAM, ...

The key rule for chip design and verification is that bugs must be found and fixed as early in the development process as possible. It is often said that catching a bug at each successive project ...