1. Budget-constrained teams, hobbyists, or very early startups that cannot absorb enterprise EDA licensing costs.
2. If an organization is standardized on a competing verification stack (for example, Synopsys-centric flows) and switching costs for licenses, methodology, and training would be prohibitive.
3. If the primary verification gaps are not property-centric and are better addressed by simulation/emulation-focused strategies.
4. If an organization cannot staff or engage with formal expertise (assertion writing, constraint modeling, methodology).
5. If product-specific public security/compliance attestations are required during procurement — product-level documentation was not located in the publicly available materials in this research set and may require NDA engagement.