What is VSM?

VSM can refer to several technologies, making a single definitive explanation challenging without further context. Here are a few possibilities: 1. **Value Stream Mapping (VSM):** This is a lean management technique used to analyze, design, and manage the flow of materials and information required to bring a product or service to a consumer. It's often used to identify bottlenecks and waste in a process. It visually maps the steps in a process, both value-added and non-value-added. 2. **Vector Space Model (VSM):** In information retrieval and natural language processing, the Vector Space Model represents documents and queries as vectors in a high-dimensional space. Each dimension corresponds to a term (word) in the document collection. The similarity between documents or between a query and a document is then measured using a distance metric (e.g., cosine similarity) between their vectors. This is commonly used in search engines, information filtering, and text classification. 3. **Verification Source Model (VSM):** In hardware verification, a VSM is a high-level model of a design used for verification purposes. It generates test stimuli and checks responses, often in a SystemVerilog environment. Without more context, it's impossible to say which VSM is being referred to.