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Questa Design Solutions

Questa Design Solutions is an automated and integrated suite of verification tools for designers to improve initial RTL quality. Design Solutions analyzes code at the design stage to detect bugs early, to improve efficiency, enhance development predictability and ease pressure on schedules.

In this webinar you will gain an understanding about how Design Solutions can help designers improve the quality of initial deliveries which drives more consistent schedule execution, and fewer late nights for the entire team.

Design Solutions Webinar | On-Demand

In this webinar you learn how design solutions help designers improve their code quality without a testbench.

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Questa Design Solutions Tools

Questa Design Solutions tools are built on a consistent foundation with a common debug and user interface, producing designs that are correct-by-construction, proving designs meet the designer’s intent and the project’s quality requirements, and protecting the design throughout its development.

Questa Lint delivers verification automation for designers. Questa Lint produces intent and quality-focused insight at the design stage. Questa Lint’s metrics and quality scores are captured and trended over time to ensure that design stays clean.
STATIC RTL VERIFICATION
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Questa Lint

Questa Lint provides adaptive, integrated insight to the designer to ensure that the quality requirements and intent are met. Pre-configured methodologies provide immediate, intuitive feedback on design issues.

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STATIC RTL ISSUE HUNTING
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Questa Inspect

A fully-automatic formal issue hunting app that finds deeply hidden issues due to common RTL coding errors, Inspect makes it possible to eliminate a wide range of issues without a testbench.

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X-STATE VERIFICATION
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Questa Check X

Questa Check X is an automated application that exhaustively roots out ‘X’ issues at the RTL-level without a testbench.

Questa CDC finds errors using structural analysis to detect clock-domains, synchronizers, and low power structures via the UPF. It then generates assertions and metastability models for protocol and reconvergence verification.
CDC VERIFICATION
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Questa Clock-Domain Crossing (CDC) Verification

Questa CDC finds errors using structural analysis to detect clock-domains, synchronizers, and low power structures via the UPF. It then generates assertions and metastability models for protocol and reconvergence verification.

Questa RDC finds errors using structural analysis to detect asynchronous reset domains, synchronizers and low power structures via the UPF. It then generates assertions to exhaustively prove that the design is clean.
RDC VERIFICATION
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Questa Reset-Domain Crossing (RDC) Verification

Questa RDC finds errors using structural analysis to detect asynchronous reset domains, synchronizers and low power structures via the UPF. It then generates assertions to exhaustively prove that the design is clean.

Questa Signoff CDC uses automated, advanced structural analysis algorithms optimized for gate-level analysis, as well as automated leveraging of waiver and CDC path information from Questa CDC RTL analysis for exacting, “low noise” results.
SIGNOFF CDC
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Questa Signoff CDC

Questa Signoff CDC builds on Questa CDC RTL analysis and automatically generates and analyzes assertions to rapidly identify chip-killing glitches and other clock-domain crossing issues.

Visualizing complex RTL design​
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Questa Developer

Questa Developer integrates advanced analysis capabilities, modern creation tools and comprehensive project and flow management to deliver a powerful HDL design environment.

Correct-by-construction design
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HDL Author

A comprehensive design creation environment that facilitates the entire design process from concept to implementation, ensuring correct-by-construction HDL designs

Featured Live & On-Demand Resources

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Continuous integration (CI) value
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Continuous integration driving program execution

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, you will learn how Questa Design Solutions are ideally suited for implementation in CI flows and how the pairing of CI and QDS will help teams execute a higher-level efficiency.

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Improving code without a testbench
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Design solutions as a sleep aid

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, you will gain an understanding of how design solutions can help designers improve the quality of initial deliveries, which drives more consistent schedule execution and fewer late nights for the entire team.

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Assist functions accelerate setup
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CDC and RDC assist: apply ML to accelerate CDC analysis

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

This webinar will dive into how Questa CDC and RDC Assist use machine learning to accelerate setup, identify design structures and assist with constraint generation, helping users achieve more efficient signoff.

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Similarities and differences
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Lint vs Formal AutoCheck

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, you will gain an understanding of the similarities and differences between Lint and Formal AutoChecking tools, and how they can be used together to increase the quality of RTL deliverables.

Engineer is fix an FPGA in a machine and a laptop is showing the design
Intent focused insight
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Fix an FPGA: Ways to find and fix FPGA failures faster

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, we'll identify how an RTL linting tool embedded within continuous design-checking process during code development and IP block integration can catch bug escapes earlier while mitigating unforeseen FPGA development

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RTL Quality
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‘The dog ate my RTL’ doesn’t work anymore

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, you will learn how non-optimal RTL quality affects your development, why providing the highest quality RTL improves overall team performance and how to accomplish an improved RTL quality-focused flow.

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Questa Lint and CDC
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Introduction to Questa Lint and CDC for designers

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, learn why code quality matters regardless of if you are coding an ASIC, FPGA or IP block, what metastability is, how it affects silicon bring-up and why addressing these points are critical in the design process

On-Demand webinar | Practical flows for continuous integration
RTL & Testbench
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Practical flows for continuous integration

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

In this webinar, we’ll teach you how to use a collection of tools – both formal and simulation – as part of a comprehensive approach to verifying RTL and testbench changes before
releasing them to your team.

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Automating flows and techniques
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CDC philosophy: constraints, waivers and truth

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

This session will increase your confidence that the CDC results you see are truly reflective of the quality of your design by using automated assertion-based verification flows and techniques.

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Improve RTL quality-focused flow
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Improving initial RTL quality

ON-DEMAND WEBINAR

This session will help you lower risks and improve team agility and development consistency by optimizing verification. Using designer-driven verification flows, designers get intent-focused insight to find issues to fix.

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