Driverless Cars & Connected Devices

From mobile computing to driverless cars, from health devices to connected homes – semiconductor technology is at the heart of  innovation.

Verification and Validation

It is no secret that 70% of the cost of semiconductor design is V&V. Functional safety and security have become a massive challenge not just for design but also for V&V.

V & V Challenges

The recent bad press due to Meltdown and Spectre should be a wake up call for design and verification. We certainly need technologies such as simulation and emulation but they are inherently incomplete and inadequate for systematic verification & validation (V&V)  for those designs that need higher assurance & compliance with the ISO standards, or security for the connected world.

The Promise of Formal

Formal methods offer a complementary verification paradigm rooted in efficient and exhaustive bug hunting as well as in obtaining exhaustive proofs of correctness.  The proliferation of formal EDA tools is increasing with some estimating it to be a $100+ million industry.

Formal's Broken Promise

Despite prolferation of formal tools, it remains a niche technology, with no cohesive adoption and deployment. Range of complex reasons but mainly due to a lack of good training and scalable methodologies that allow the end user to maximise the full potential of the tools.

The Axiomise Mission

Axiomise wants to make formal verification mainstream, by offering the best-in-class training and methodologies proven to work in practice, backed up by consistent project support and strategic consulting with EDA partners.

The Axiomise Story

Axiomise is a formal verification training, consulting and services company. It has been founded to serve the semiconductor industry in the use of formal verification. Axiomise is truly dedicated to enabling formal for all semiconductor design and verification. The company believes that the only way to make formal mainstream for all design verification is to enable and empower the end user of formal – the hundreds of designers and verification engineers in the semiconductor industry. Axiomise offers cutting edge formal verification consulting, training and services dedicated to enabling formal for all design verification. Learn how to apply formal in a predictable way to achieve high-quality sign-off.

Vision

The vision of Axiomise is to enable formal to be used by all design and verification engineers for the right reasons at the right time. Axiomise will realize its vision by directly engaging with its customers to enable them to use formal hands-on with ease and confidence to tape out high-quality verification in a predictable manner. The delicate balance between predictability and quality is often hard to achieve and can be tricky to get it right with formal. Axiomise wants to empower its customers to obtain just that. Axiomise makes this possible through a combination of offerings – from training engineers and managers to providing consulting required for  hands-on formal verification planning and execution.

Why Axiomise?

Training focused on methodology

We don’t use complex jargon

Our labs derived from field experiences

Strategic consulting on projects 

Enabling end-to-end formal sign-off

Consulting  available for management

Complex projects enabled by our services

Management

Dr Darbari has been actively using formal methods for over two decades.  He is one of the foremost authorities in practical applied formal verification having trained more than 150 designers, and verification engineers across the world. He has taught 22-year-old fresh graduates but also seasoned designers with 22 years’ experience. Some of his former students work at Apple®, Arm®, Blu Wireless®, Diffblue®, Facebook®, Nokia®, Imagination®, Synopsys®, and OneSpin Solutions® to name a few. A keen innovator in formal verification, Dr Darbari has 24 US, UK and EU patents, and 32 peer-reviewed papers in formal verification. He is also the author of Axiomise RISC-V ISA formal proof kit®.

Dr Darbari has expertise in all aspects of formal methods including theorem proving, property checking and equivalence checking. Although he has a Doctorate in formal verification from the University of Oxford, to learn formal verification from him, you don’t need a PhD!  His training program has been crafted to enable a complete novice in formal verification to production-grade work.

For more information on what people say about us check out www.axiomise.com/testimonial. Some testimonials that couldn’t make it to the website can be found on [1, 2].

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