VS202-VPM – Verification Project Management

Be able to define a verification strategy:

• • Know the main aspects of verification projects
  • Be able to define verification objectives, metrics and activities
  • Be able to develop a verification plan at IP and at SoC level
  • Be able to define KPIs and track a verification project progress

• • Students registered to this course should have the following prerequisites
    • General engineering background in hardware design and SoC architecture
    • Be involved in a hardware design and/or a verification project
    • Some notions of test and verification
    • General Project Management Know-How
  • Access to a simulation tool (Cadence Xcelium, Siemens Questa, Synopsys VCS) with a waveform viewer and coverage features
  • English B2

• • Verification as a process
  • The different types of verification strateges and approaches
  • Verification Project Reporting using Metrics and Coverage
  • Build a Verification Plan

• • Course openned within 1 to 3 months prior to start
  • Subject to validation of the prerequisites and objectives survey
  • Learners should have legal and valid accesses to one of the following simulators from their employers:
    • SIEMENS Questa
    • CADENCE Xcelium
    • SYNOPSYS VCS
  • English Level B2 minimum

A certificate of success will be delivered after completion of 60% of the labs and a score of 60% on the final checkpoint