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What is Post-Silicon Validation

November 28, 2019June 18, 2025 vlsifacts No Comments

Modern day Syetem-on-Chips are so complex that pre-silicon verification is no more the sufficient step to capture all the design bugs. Even with sophisticated verification process, achieving 100% coverage is difficult. Due to this, few bugs escape from the pre-silicon verification till the actual product on silicon. So, now-a-days industries perform post-silicon validation (commonly known…

DHD, Verification

Pre-Silicon Verification vs. Post-Silicon Validation

November 19, 2019June 17, 2025 vlsifacts No Comments

Both Verification and Validation checks for the correctness of the design. These design steps try to detect and localize functional bugs in the system. While pre-silicon verification runs the test cases on the software prototypes of the design on the simulator, post-silicon validation is executed on a few initial hardware prototypes of the design on…

DHD, Verification, VLSI Testing