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We're excited to announce our participation in the upcoming #STEMWomen event designed for recent graduates. Our CEO, Ashish Darbari, will be joining as a speaker sharing the work we're doing at Axiomise and discuss why formal verification is crucial in today's landscape. This event is a fantastic opportunity to connect, learn and inspire future leaders in STEM. We look forward to seeing you there! #formalverification #graduates #university #Iloveformal #makeformalnormal #inclusivity #future #tomorrow #London

Nicky Khodadad and Ashish Darbari capture interesting insights on how functional verification challenges alongside safety and security can be addressed effectively with #formalverification and how the latest course priced at £75/$99 provides a great starting point for learning property checking methodology independent of any specific vendor. Get started today and avoid shipping bugs in silicon! https://lnkd.in/ekyJKQVj

In the experts at the table series by Brian Bailey, our CEO, Ashish Darbari said “Conformance means the RISC-V design has implemented the RISC-V ISA correctly. The processor can have custom instructions that are not part of the ISA, but the published ISA’s instructions must have the precise semantics in the implementation, and must match with the published ISA. For example, a LOAD instruction is meant to load the data from memory, not to move the data from another register. Validation is about whether we are building the right design. Validation is not limited just to conformance alone. You could be conformant to the ISA and yet build a processor with performance, power, and area issues, which were not the intent originally. Verification is about ensuring that whatever requirements/specifications were agreed upon are met by the implementation i.e., there are no mismatches or bugs. For example, any power optimizations introduced must not break it. As regards certification, I’d think of it as a process where a neutral organization independently checks that all instructions in the ISA are implemented faithfully, and that no custom instruction breaks the functionality of the ISA instruction under any circumstances. This only can be done through rigorous checking possible by formal methods, as there could be millions of test cases where ISA instructions continue to work correctly, and under some corner cases they don’t.” Want the full read? 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eq5-Tc5M

We had a fantastic time at the #RISCVNorthAmericaSummit2024! At Booth S25, we showcased our #formalverification expertise, essential for ensuring the security and reliability of hardware systems through exhaustive, mathematical validation. Our work on #CHERIoT with #formalISA was a summit highlight. formalISA’s automated integration quickly identified and resolved critical issues in CHERIOT-IBEX, demonstrating its power in debugging and scalable proof engineering for RISC-V verification. Thank you to everyone who stopped by! For more on our approach to uncovering complex bugs and ensuring #reliability, check out this article: https://lnkd.in/emakgp5j #Iloveformal #makeformalnormal #debug #semiconductor #powerofformal #scalable #riscvamerica #debug #exhaustiveness #completeness #hardware #verificationIP

What an incredible first day at #RISCVNorthAmerica2024! The energy, innovation, and enthusiasm we experienced yesterday were remarkable. We were thrilled to connect with so many brilliant minds and discuss the cutting-edge advancements in formal verification. A huge thank you to everyone who visited our booth (S25) and engaged with us. Your insights and curiosity fuel our passion! For those who didn’t have a chance to stop by, we are here again today, ready to dive into the world of RISC-V. Come by booth S25 and discover how Axiomise is advancing #formalverification. We look forward to seeing you! #RISCV #northamerica #technology #makeformalnormal #Iloveformal #semiconductor #predicatable #scalable #formalISA

The Axiomise Team is super-excited to meet you at our booth in the #RISCVSummit North America. Learn how our powerful formal methods solutions are helping with verification of secure processors such as #CHERIoT. 💡 The Axiomise formalISA automated app is helping with CHERIOT-IBEX formal verification! As part of continuous integration of open-source #riscv cores in formalISA we recently started integrating CHERIOT-IBEX. ▶ The push-button integration in formalISA enabled us to get the proofs running in no time, and very quickly we identified multiple issues. 🐞 The issue described here is related to the failure of the RTYPE instruction checks exposing an interesting bug related to an Illegal CHERI LOAD issue causing all RTYPE instructions to fail. 🐞 Upon a designer fix, the RTYPE properties proved, but now the BITMANIP instruction checks along with others failed exposing that the fix was not completely incorporated. 🔔 Some time later, designers provide another fix and lo and behold we have the relevant properties now prove.  📌 formalISA provides the power of automated architectural #formalverification for RISC-V. 📌 In formalISA property modelling meets scalable proof engineering, and together with intelligent debug and six-dimensional coverage powered reporting we have defined a new standard for RISC-V processor verification enabling predictable formal verification and helping us make formal normal for RISC-V. Watch the space for more news later!  For more details and some excellent commentary from designers from lowRISC CIC and Microsoft analysing the root-cause, look at:  https://lnkd.in/ezA4M_Kf  https://lnkd.in/eDG3hVhV

We believe it's time to #makeformalnormal in our community. Formal verification is an essential part of the engineering toolkit, enabling precision, reliability, and efficiency in complex systems. We’re committed to fostering a global community where formal methods are accessible, understood, and applied widely. Let’s continue building together, sharing knowledge, ideas, and solutions that make our industry stronger. #formalverification #iloveformal #community #innovation #predicatableFV #DVConEurope2024 #munich

On the eve of our 7th birthday, we are proud to be at DVCon Europe. Over the past seven years, we have remained committed to our mission of making formal normal by delivering high-quality, bug-free silicon for our customers. We are leading the effort and bringing the community together in making formal normal. Join us in ensuring that together we enable the silicon to tape out without bugs using the exhaustive power of #formalverification. We are at booth 20, showcasing our latest innovations. We would love to see you there and discuss how we can help make formal normal in your process. Here’s to many more years of innovation! #DVConEurope2024 #formalverification #bugsfree #semiconductorindustry #munich #iloveformal #makeformalnormal

At Axiomise, we've taken over seven decades of modern formal methods and distilled them into a course that focuses on practical, scalable verification. We’ve curated the most relevant subset of SystemVerilog Assertions, cutting through the noise to focus on what really matters—problem-solving and getting started with formal verification effectively. Our techniques have been applied to verify complex processors, GPUs, NoCs, and networking designs, with some designs as large as 1.1 billion gates! Now, we’re sharing this expertise with you in our latest course: Essential Introduction to Practical Formal Verification! #FormalVerification #SystemVerilog #ProblemSolving #Axiomise #Verification #Scalability

In this latest episode of our RISC-V series, we discuss how to make debugging smarter and faster. Discover the next-generation intelligent debug techniques for RISC-V processor verification, designed to enhance both efficiency and accuracy. 🔗 Watch the full episode on our YouTube channel: https://lnkd.in/eaRsyG9w 🔍 Ready to make debugging more intelligent? What challenges are you facing with debugging today? Let us know in the comments below! At Axiomise, we’re here to help you with formal verification to prove bug absence and hunt down corner-case bugs in your ASIC/FPGA designs, RISC-V or otherwise. To learn more, visit our website at www.axiomise.com #RISCV #FormalVerification #ASIC #FPGA #Debugging #Verification #Axiomise #YouTube #Iloveformal #makeformalnormal #bugabsence