Hardware designers and verification engineers have embraced the use of assertions. They are a way to formally specify a design's intended behavior, which must hold true during the course of a design ...

Assertions have been key contributors in increasing confidence in the accuracy of the design & quality of verification since coding effective coverage is fundamental in ensuring the completeness of ...

Assertions bring immediate benefits to the entire design and verification cycle. To use assertions effectively in the verification cycle, they need to be exercised for checking legal design behavior ...

Assertions have been a staple in formal verification for years. Now they are being examined to see what else they can be used for, and the list is growing. Traditionally, design and verification ...

2023 is a transitional year for sustainability data. IFRS, the global accounting standards body, has been remarkably clear: By January 2024, companies should be using accounting-based standards to ...

Financial statement assertions can be essential to a business owner who wants to get a loan. Every business has a variety of different financial reports it can use as proof to lenders that what it ...

From assertions in JDK 1.4 to the forthcoming lambdas in Java 8, the Java language has evolved considerably since its inception. The next several Java 101 articles present a toolbox of essential Java ...

Multithreaded programming is challenging but unavoidable, which is why you need the best tools and techniques for doing it safely. In this article Theodore S. Norvell introduces the conceptual ...