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What's All This Talk About Coverage?

David John Lacey

What's with all this talk about coverage? - pdf

David has been with HP for five years after nearly ten years with Raytheon.  He has primarily focused on system verification of chipsets used in HP’s high end servers.  David has also been involve in industry standardization activities and has held roles within Accellera as chairman of the OVL technical committee and member of the SystemVerilog Assertions technical committee.  As co-author of Assertion-Based Design, David has pioneered assertion use and methodologies.  He has three patents in verification awaiting approval with the US Patent office.

Rob Porter

What's with all this talk about coverage? - pdf

Rob has been with HP for nine years, and was previously at Texas Instruments for five. He has spent the last 12 years in verification, both for processors and chipsets. His interests are the practical application of coverage tools and assertions, methodologies for obtaining and managing design information critical to the verification process, and effective definition of verification activities. Rob is co-inventor for a patent on a self-checking testplan execution environment.