Verification methodologies were built for a world that looked very different from today. OOPs and environment re-use were supposed to make life easier. Instead, they’ve turned into layers of abstraction that slow teams down. Conventional methodologies offer heavy-handed solutions—robust, yes, but at the cost of steep ramp-up times and increasing complexity.

Meanwhile, collaboration lags. Legacy verification frameworks operate in silos, limiting innovation and forcing engineers to work within rigid toolchains that can’t take full advantage of modern compute power. Debug cycles are longer. Environments are harder to scale. And for teams building cutting-edge designs, the very tools meant to streamline verification are now the bottleneck.

The gap is growing. If the next generation of silicon is pushing boundaries, why is verification still playing catch-up?