Design Verification Club

General Verification

This event will consist of a speaker followed by an open forum discussion. 

Speaker - Rainer Hoehler - Vice president of Network and Storage Memories, Qimonda

Rainer Hoehler is the vice president of Networking and Storage Memories for Qimonda North America.  In this function, Dr. Hoehler has world-wide business responsibility for the target markets of networking, storage and industrial applications, overseeing the division’s business development and marketing, technical product management, quality, supply chain, and financial management. Before his current position, Dr. Hoehler held various positions at Siemens Semiconductors, Infineon Technologies and Qimonda in product development and R&D management. He studied at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, where he earned his Masters and PhD degrees, both in Electrical Engineering.

Discussion

Most of the industry seems to have moved towards constrained random testing and are using various efficiency improvement techniques such as a verification framework, ranking, test planning automation, etc.  While these incremental improvements and automation techniques are of great value to the verification process, a true paradigm shift in verification would seem to be needed as the system complexity grows exponentially.  What do people believe is the next frontier in verification?