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Dedicated verification teams are well established in the digital world, but not in analog/mixed-signal design. Has the time come for separate analog verification teams? I've been following an ongoing debate on this topic in a couple of LinkedIn groups, a debate that followed my recent blog posting about a mixed-signal verification panel at the Cadence booth at the Design Automation Conference.

In the panel, engineers from Qualcomm, NXP, and LSI talked about their progress in bringing digital approaches such as the Universal Verification Methodology (UVM), assertions, executable verification plans, and metric-driven verification into mixed-signal verification.  They also talked about the need for separate analog verification teams, along with a corresponding skill set focused on verification.

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