Vtool

Vtool

Vtool - Rule the Bugs Vtool answers to the ever-increasing need for faster, more reliable ASIC and FPGA development cycles, since 2014.

Headquartered in Israel, it is an EDA verification company, RISC-V SoC adaptable platform provider, and ASIC and embedded SW design house led by industry experts and a growing team of 150 professionals. Operating out of Israel, France, Serbia, Poland, Greece, and India, Vtool serves top chipmakers worldwide by synergizing its three pillars. Vtool's EDA solution, Cogita-PRO, ensures first-time-righ

21/08/2024

Our Creative Team, Our Stars✨

Today, we're excited to introduce Anand Manikpure, our Verification Engineer at Vtool India. From creating verification environments to debugging and developing new tests, Anand has found the perfect place to enhance his skills and grow professionally with us. We couldn’t be more thrilled to have him on our team!

This is how we roll at Vtool India🤟

15/08/2024

Straight from the Vtool Library: Our Book of the Month! 📖

The real challenge in programming isn't mastering syntax—it's learning how to solve problems creatively. Think Like a Programmer: An Introduction to Creative Problem Solving by V. Anton Spraul breaks down the strategies that programmers use to tackle problems, highlighting what other books often overlook.

Creative problem-solving is in our DNA, making this the perfect start for your bug-hunting journey!🚀

31/07/2024

Our most precious asset: our people.💎
Today, we are bringing into the spotlight Dawid Zimończyk, a verification engineer from Poland. Dawid is ready to put on his blue Power Ranger suit, fight the bugs, and save the day! When the tests are passing and you hear "For the Horde!", you'll know it's him.
This is how we roll in Vtool Poland🤟

30/07/2024

Master your first SoC! Universa cuts to the chase, slashing 3-6 months off your time to market.🚀
Vtool Universa is a highly integrated, general-purpose, RISC-V-based SoC that speeds your tapeout by months. It is royalty-free, open source, and customization is hassle-free.
Add your specific designs and IPs, integrate third-party IPs, or get our services team to do it all for you. Simple, fast, secure.
Get in touch for the full specifications and schedule an introductory meeting today.

18/07/2024

“I have always been a stickler for the beauty of the structure.”✨

Today we are bringing to the spotlight the woman behind the Brooklyn Bridge, Emily Warren Roebling. She loved math and physics from a very tender age, and studied the principals of bridge construction, while taking over the project and delivering it until the end. 🚀
Roebling also managed to pull through different roles during this project and to excel at all of them. Her accomplishments are truly inspiring and motivating.💫

16/07/2024

Our greatest treasure, our team!💫
Today we are presenting Roopa M, our verification engineer who wanted to become a doctor. Now she is saving lives by delivering bug-free chips🐞
For her, Vtool was love at first sight, and at Vtool Roopa found the creative space to bring innovation to the semiconductor ecosystem.
This is how we roll in Vtool India🤟

Photos from Vtool's post 15/07/2024

A warm and exciting welcome to our global team members, Yula Brown and Danielle Ravitzki, who traveled to India to visit our new site in Bangalore and meet with the Bug Fighting team to discuss plans and the future.🚀

Of course, like any good visit, we ended it with an amazing traditional Indian meal that was out of this world!👌

08/07/2024

New Tips and Tricks Just Aired!🔥
What is X-Propagation, and why should you use it in VCS Simulation?
Our bug-hunter, Meghana Hanakunti, shows how to mask or unmask certain modules and paths in X-Propagation!

Read the full article here👇
https://bit.ly/3VToblS

Visit our Knowledge Center for more👇
https://bit.ly/3N2Pfdi

04/07/2024

Our Team, Our Treasure✨

We’re shining the spotlight on Marcin Gach, our verification engineer in Poland.
From dreaming of becoming a football player to now scoring big in our projects, Marcin delivers bug-free chips with precision.

This is how we roll at Vtool Poland🤟

26/06/2024

Straight from Vtool Library, our Book of the Month is Python Tricks by Dan Bader.📖

This book provides excellent guidance on learning the practical skills that really matter in Python. You will gain a better understanding of how Python works and its variety of uses in different industries. It's always good to have some useful tricks up your sleeve🤟

21/06/2024

Global Semiconductor Alliance European Executive Forum was a blast! 🚀 Gathering the leaders of the semiconductor ecosystem to discuss new trends and hold engaging panels drives growth and innovation in our industry.

We are thrilled to have had the opportunity to attend and showcase Vtool's diverse portfolio. 💫
Thank you, Jodi Shelton, for making every event inspirational and productive!

18/06/2024

New Drop🔥
It is common practice to check if a signal has been asserted or stable for a number of clock cycles. In our latest Tips & Tricks article, Novak Radivojević, our bug hunter, shows us how to verify the duration of any signal using SVA.

Read the full article👇
https://bit.ly/4ervRnK

Visit our Knowledge Center for more👇
https://bit.ly/3N2Pfdi

12/06/2024

Getting ready for the Global Semiconductor Alliance European Executive Forum🤟
Our VP of Product, Olivera Stojanovic, will be in Munich on the 18th and 19th of June. Grab the chance to learn more about Vtool's broad offerings, including our new Universa RISC-V SoC, Vtool's Cogita-PRO EDA solution, and our HW/SW consulting services.

Drop us an email at [email protected] to schedule your meeting🚀

11/06/2024

Our greatest treasure, our people🚀
Today we are presenting Konstantinos Pexaras, our digital design engineer, who is transforming the spec into code. With a wrench set and a screwdriver in his hands, he is always well equipped to repair all different kinds of vehicles and functionalities. A ride to the mountain on his bike is the best way for him to relax!
This is how we roll in Vtool Greece🤟

10/06/2024

If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people💫

Today we are bringing into the spotlight Anita Borg, a computer scientist who advocated for women’s advancement in technology. Borg received several accolades and awards throughout her career, and she was also inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame. She created the Anita Borg Institute to increase the representation of women in technical fields and enable the creation of more technology by women.

You are a true inspiration for us🚀

07/06/2024

We are honored to be invited to the 60th celebration of the Faculty of Automation, Electronics, and Computer Science of the Silesian University of Technology!
Our technical manager in Poland, Tomasz Tarkiewicz, spoke about our strong collaboration with the university and how young engineers can count on our experienced engineers for help, support, and a future career both in design and in SoC verification.
Thank you for the invitation. It was a blast!🚀

04/06/2024

It's lecture time🚀
Save the date and come meet us at the Silesian University of Technology in Gliwice. Our bug hunters, Piotr Rozkoszek will present the Polish semiconductor ecosystem and Dawid Zimończyk will talk about the HW/SW co-verification!
Looking forward to seeing you there!✨

03/06/2024

Have you ever had the need to check if your factory overrides are working as expected?
We got you covered👌
In our latest Tips & Tricks, our bug fighter Aleksandra Dimanić, is showing us how we can print the contents of uvm_factory🔥

Read the full article here👇
https://bit.ly/3VqfzE8

Visit our Knowledge Center for more👇
https://bit.ly/3N2Pfdi

Photos from Vtool's post 30/05/2024

Ruling the grill with a smokin' attitude🔥
Our Polish team took the opportunity to use this sunny day for some barbeque and board game time.
Spending quality time, laughing and relaxing from our bug-hunting journey is always a great way to reconnect.
Cheers🥂

28/05/2024

Shining bright like diamond💎

We are bringing Meghana Hanakunti to the spotlight, a verification engineer in our team in India!
During her studies, she discovered verification and the semiconductor ecosystem for the first time. This discovery created a spark in her, that would lead to her passion in innovation and cutting edge technology.
Her dream of becoming an Air Traffic Controller made her keep the bugs in distance and take the responsibility of delivering bug-free chips to the world🚀

This is how we roll in Vtool India🤟

22/05/2024

Straight from the Vtool Library, our Book of the Month📖

Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms by Hannah Fry. This book is discussing how algorithms and artificial intelligence are hiding behind almost every aspect of our modern lives.

The book helps us determine algorithms' power, expose their limitations, and examine whether they really are an improvement of the human-run systems that they replace.🚀

At Vtool, our mission is to align technological life with human cognition, through the unconventional thinking fired up by the AI driven debugging tool, Cogita-PRO. Working the human way, intuitive, visual, and communicative, we roll into a bug free world🤟

09/05/2024

It's hot🔥
How do you bind interfaces and modules or bind assertion modules and other modules in System Verilog?
In our latest Tips & Tricks, Aleksandra Dimanić, our bug-fighter is showing us how binding comes in handy🚀

Read the full article here👇
https://bit.ly/3UTH5Zp

Visit our Knowledge Center for more👇
https://bit.ly/3N2Pfdi

Photos from Vtool's post 02/05/2024

Strike to the right tone🎳
Our team in Poland gathered together in Krakow and Gliwice for an after - Easter celebration.
An evening well spent which includes pizza and bowling game.
This is how we roll in Vtool Poland🤘

30/04/2024

Your best and wisest refuge from all troubles is in your science✨

Today we are bringing to the spotlight Ada Lovelace, the first computer programmer.
Lovelace recognized that the machine had applications beyond pure calculation and published the first algorithm intended to be carried out by such a machine, leading the way to computer programming as we know it today.

We are inspired by her out-of-the-box approach and thinking, bringing innovation into the semiconductor ecosystem🚀

24/04/2024

Our bright diamonds, our people💫

Today we are bringing to the spotlight Mohammed Raza, who has a deep passion for tackling complex challenges in the realm of SoC/ASIC verification in Vtool India. With keeping a keen eye for detail and relentless commitment to quality.
Joining Vtool felt like the right place for growing and working into cutting-edge technology🚀

Vtool is opening its doors! We’re looking to welcome new and inspiring teammates, mediors and seniors, who want to take their next big leap with us. Just shoot us an email or contact us via our website. We’d love to meet you, and now is the time🐞

23/04/2024

Celebrating the International Book day, straight from Vtool Library, our Book of the Month📖
From the vision of the human-computer symbiosis to the development of the personal computer, you need the sparkle of a dream✨
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal by M. Mitchell Waldrop is Vtool’s Book of the Month!

Licklider’s ideas are like computers as communication devices, and Intergalactic Network became so influential, his passion so contagious, that it shifted our perception of what computers could be.
Being trully inspired, the vision for a bug-free world brought our advanced EDA solution into life, Cogita-PRO 🚀

19/04/2024

Straight from Vtool Lab, our team is ready to meet you at Elfak Open Day🚀 Curious to learn about having a career in the semiconductor ecosystem? Pass by our booth in the Faculty of Electronics, and talk with our bug-hunters about how to accelerate your career in Vtool.

We are opening our doors! We’re looking to welcome new and inspiring teammates, mediors and seniors, who want to take their next big leap with us.
Just shoot us an email or contact us via our website. We’d love to meet you, and now is the time.🐞

Codasip at Embedded World 2024 - meet our partners 19/04/2024

We are super excited about our collaboration with Codasip, delivering a stronger Universa platform🚀
We honorably joined forces in the Embedded World 2024, showcased Universa and presented how we integrated Codasip's L31 Core!
See the full video and take a taste of what Universa can do✨
Shoot us an email ([email protected]) to request a demo🐞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uxua8fnPVk

Codasip at Embedded World 2024 - meet our partners

17/04/2024

Our latest Tips & Tricks just arrived🔥

How can you make the simulation of this testcase much faster?
Piotr Morawiec is showing us how to apply stub only on a certain instance of a given module and accelerate the verification process🚀

Read the full article here👇
https://bit.ly/4cXEANL

Visit our Knowledge Center for more👇
https://bit.ly/3N2Pfdi

Photos from Vtool's post 13/04/2024

Thank you Embedded World 2024, it was a blast🚀

Amazing three days discussing the semiconductor ecosystem and showcasing Universa, the HW/SW SoC platform powered by Codasip L31 Core.

Just shoot us an email at [email protected] for a demo. We’d love to meet you, and now is the time🐞

Vtool - Smart Verification

Vtool is helping semiconductors companies to release their microchips faster and with fewer bugs.

Established in 2014, Vtool's team of professionals work out of Tel Aviv, Belgrade, and Paris. Vtool targets the semiconductors domain with revolutionary solutions that usher in a new era in chip design, and by extension, the entire technological world.

As a Verification company, Vtool created the Cogita. A first-of-its-kind, abstract debug technology that leverages big data analysis to detect semiconductor design bugs five times faster than conventional methods.

Vtool augments its verification solution by consulting and support and provides to its customer an end-to-end solution from concept to a working, bug-free product.

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