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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Directive Locking?

Do you wish you could lock specific aspects of a DEHDL design content? Do you need…

• 5 min read
CPM Directive Control , DEHDL , Directive Lockhing , PCB design , SPB16.01

Verification

Virtualization Taxonomy

I arrived safe and sound at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston today. It's…

• 2 min read
VM ware , virtualization , taxonomy , real-time systems , Embedded Systems Conference , System Design and Verification , ESC

Verification

OVM Momentum and Interoperability

The question of how to integrate legacy VMM VIP into OVM verification environments…

• 1 min read
OVM Professionals Network , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , VIP , Verification IP modeling

Verification

Verification Techtorial in San Jose next Tuesday 10/28

Apologies for the shameless promotion, but I can't resist touting an event I'm producing…

• less than a min read
Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Verification

Formal Moment Of Zen

Most of my experience in functional verification prior to my dabbling in FPV was…

• 3 min read
OVL , FPV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , SCV , SVA , FIFO , PSL , Simulation acceleration , SystemC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Need some stability in your Package Power?

It is not too late to sign up for the Package Power Integrity webinar that will be…

• less than a min read
PDN , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB16.2 , SSN

Verification

Is Host-Code Execution History?

Before getting into the details of today's topic I'm happy to report a brand new…

• 5 min read
Cisco , System Design and Verification , MIPS , Palladium , Sun , Verilog , OVP , ARM , Virtutech , QEMU

Digital Design

Getting Started with dbGet

If you've been checking out the other blogs here in the Digital Implementation community…

• 2 min read
database access , SoC-Encounter , dbGet , dbSet

Verification

Top 5 Stumbling Blocks In FPV Adoption

My first post served as a context for this blog. It also telegraphed my intention…

• 5 min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification

Verification

More on today's Verification IP portfolio expansion news

Today's announcement on our expanding Verification IP (VIP) portfolio inspired me…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , Verification IP modeling , multi-language

Digital Design

An Interview with Global Timing Debug Architect Thad McCracken

So who is Thad McCracken and why should you be interesting in reading this blog entry…

• 8 min read
SoC-Encounter , Ostrich , Global Timing Debug

Verification

Getting more value from the OVM using Metric-Driven Verification - Part II

In my last post , I talked about how OVM is a methodology for building automated…

• 1 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , ARM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Verification

Early Embedded Systems Conference Coverage

Today, a friend sent me a link to an article on embedded.com that talks about my…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification , Embedded Systems Boston Conference

Verification

Is there a 1 Billion gate chip on your roadmap?

Yes, I'm asking about chips that will have 1 billion -- that's billion with a "B…

• 1 min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , System Verification

Digital Design

createPGPin to the rescue: getting the power pins you want in your block LEF

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my first blog post! My plan for this space is to share with…

• 2 min read
SoC-Encounter , lefOut followpins , LEF , createPGPin

RF Engineering

Going broadside with electromagnetic modeling of advanced processes

It has caught my attention that designs using fabrication processes such as 65nm…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso RF Designer , Electromagnetic analysis , Electromagnetic (EM) , RF design , Circuit Design , wireless integrated circuit verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good about the new "Class" Scope for Match Groups in Constraint Manager?

In the SPB16.01 release, for the Constraint Manager in DEHDL, the is a new scope…

• 1 min read
Constraint Manager , Class Scope , PCB design

Verification

System-level design and verification - at the center!

This year, Cadence increases its focus on system-level design and verification events…

• 1 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , embedded software , Emulation , ESL handoff , System simulation and analysis , Coverage Driven Verification for Embedded Software , embedded SW engineer , CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2008 , ISX , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL , architect

Verification

Power Aware Design Now at System Level

Several years ago, I have purchased a cell phone with a 2 years contract from one…

• 2 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Low power verification and analysis , system validation/verification engineer , Verification Acceleration , System simulation and analysis , embedded SW engineer , Simulation acceleration , C-to-Silicon Compiler , Hardware/software co-verification , debugging , ESL , architect
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