Keep verification focused on real bugs

Verification capacity isn’t scaling with design complexity. In the latest Wilson Research trend reports referenced here, 87% of FPGA projects reported non-trivial bug escapes, and IC/ASIC first-silicon success was only 14%.

The verification manager problem

You’re trying to protect:

• coverage time
• debug bandwidth
• schedule predictability

But the data (and lived experience) is consistent: projects slip, and debugging dominates. The Wilson Research reports the 2024 Wilson Research Group IC/ASIC Functional Verification Trend Report  (further down “ASIC report”) and the 2024 Wilson Research Group FPGA Functional Verification Trend Report  (further down “FPGA report”) cite that verification engineers spend 47% of their time debugging, the largest slice of time. When the pipeline is noisy, verification becomes a filter for preventable issues instead of a quality engine.

What changes with Sigasi

Sigasi Visual HDL helps you shift-left the avoidable issues by giving design and verification engineers deterministic, project-aware feedback while they write RTL, so fewer “easy errors” reach simulation and soak up debug time.

1) Reduce “noise bugs” before simulation

Sigasi catches many avoidable issues while code is being written and integrated—earlier than simulation bring-up—so verification sees cleaner drops.

2) Faster comprehension of RTL + testbench structure

When designs are large and mixed-language, time disappears into “Where is this defined?” and “What connects to what?” Sigasi’s navigation + diagrams accelerate orientation and review—so debugging starts from a better baseline.

3) Verification-aware workflows (frameworks, mixed-language reality)

Verification environments often span SystemVerilog/UVM plus legacy or IP-heavy RTL in VHDL. Sigasi supports this reality with project-aware analysis that helps teams integrate and iterate with fewer surprises.

How to evaluate

A low-risk trial that verification managers can trust:

1. Pick 1–2 active projects (include mixed-language if that’s your reality)
2. Run Sigasi in-editor for design + verification engineers
3. Optionally add checks in CI for consistency
4. Measure for 2–3 weeks on the following metrics:

• number of avoidable issues caught pre-sim/CI
• reduction in “trivial failure” simulation starts
• PR review churn (iterations / time-to-merge)
• time-to-understand for new team members (first productive change)

Why now?

• Schedule slips are “common” (ASIC report cites 75% of IC/ASIC projects behind schedule, and over two-thirds of FPGA projects delayed according to the FPGA report)
• Complexity drivers are everywhere: IP reuse, AI-generated code, processors, multiple async clocks, security/safety requirements, …

So the lever isn’t “verify harder.” It’s “reduce the amount of avoidable stuff that reaches verification.”

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