The purpose of the book is to train verification engineers on the breadth of technologies available and to give them a utilitarian methodology for making effective use of those technologies. The book is easy to understand and a joy to read. The book's organization follows a 'typical' verification project from inception to completion, (planning to closure). The book elucidates concepts using non-technical terms and clear entertaining explanations. Analogies to other fields are employed to keep the book light-hearted and interesting.

Verification Projects: Planning to Closure addresses the challenges of functional verification in the digital semiconductor market today. It presents best practices by alternately looking at the verification problem as a complete system, and expounding on the best practices for executing with the myriad of available verification technologies. As a result, the reader gains not only a sufficient knowledge to use each technology intelligently, but more importantly, knowledge of when each technology can be used most effectively, and how to combine the various technologies to provide the best verification solution for their project.

All of this information is conveyed within the framework of the leading edge plan to closure methodology. This methodology conveys three important messages:

It is important to note that while this book will touch on all available verification technologies, it is not meant to be an in-depth training manual on any one technology. That level of material has been well covered in other books. The intent of this book is to teach the user a fundamental understanding of each technology, teach the user how to best employ each technology and teach the user how to execute most effectively with these technologies using a plan to closure methodology.