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Is functional coverage closure becoming the biggest bottleneck in modern SoC verification?

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Verification has always been the most resource-intensive phase of SoC development, but functional coverage closure is quietly becoming the hardest part to get right. Constrained random gets you to 80% relatively fast. That last 20% can consume more engineering time than everything that came before…

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  1. 2026-09-15 06:11 · r/learnmachinelearning
    Is functional coverage closure becoming the biggest bottleneck in modern SoC verification?

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