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Industry’s First End-to-End eUSB2V2 Demo for Edge AI and AI PCs at CES

Since their debut in 2023, AI PCs have taken the market by storm. Gartner projects…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured

Cadence Japan

ケイデンス、AI設計向け検証IPポートフォリオを強化する新VIP10種を発表

ケイデンスは、AIベースの設計に最適化された最新インターフェース向けに、10種類の新しい検証IP（Verification IP：VIP）を発表しました。今回発表されたVIPは…

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
news story , Verification IP , featured

Cadence Japan

ケイデンス、株式会社ベリフォアを迎え検証サービスの革新を加速

ケイデンスはVerifore社を迎えて、半導体設計・検証サービスの革新を加速。高品質なソリューションで国内外の競争力を強化します。

Cadence Japan
• 2 min read
featured , japanese blog

Corporate News

Cadence Adds 10 New VIP to Strengthen Verification IP Portfolio for AI Designs

Cadence has unveiled 10 Verification IP (VIP) for key emerging interfaces tuned for…

Corporate
• 1 min read
news story , Verification IP , featured
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Verification

Low-Power Verification With SystemC - The Great Unknown

Design teams have used C/C++/SystemC reference models for many years and the trend…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , CPF , Low-Power , UPF , SystemC , IES , ESL

Verification

A Look Back On 2009 (Before Hazarding Predictions For 2010)

Before I gaze into a crystal ball and add to the many fine predictions already made…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , C , EDA , e , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , SystemC , MDV , ESL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About SiP Layout ADRC? See For Yourself Using The SPB16.3 Release!

In the SPB16.3 release, the SiP Layout Assembly Design Rules Checker (ADRC) User…

• 16 min read
SiP , DRC , SPB 16.3 , ACSET , ADRC , PCB design

Verification

Why UVM Does Not Equal OVM Plus VMM

In the numerous tweets, blog posts, and online forum discussions on the upcoming…

• 1 min read
uvm , methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , compatibility , Accellera , OVM 2.1 , VMM

Verification

Methodology Is Important But Language Matters - Part 1

Historical trends in languagesMany of us have traveled around the world, and while…

• 3 min read
Verification planning and management , TLM , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , ESL High Level Synthesis , OVM , ASIC/ASSP , ANSI-C , C-to-Silicon , virtual prototype , C program , OSCiI , TLM 2.0-driven design , planning and management , ESL

SoC and IP

The Evolving Enterprise SSD: Gartner’s Forecasts

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software The appearance of SSDs into the storage…

• 5 min read

SoC and IP

SSD Interfaces and Performance Effects

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software IDC ’s Research Director John Rydning…

• 4 min read

SoC and IP

SSD and HDD Economic Forecast: Analyst Jim Handy Speaks Out

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software If you’re waiting for solid-state drives…

• 3 min read

Verification

Scalability Made OVM The Ideal Choice For UVM

The popularity of OVM that made it the idea choice for Accellera's UVM is rooted…

• 1 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , uvm , OVM ML , Functional Verification , OVM , e , Simulation acceleration , MDV

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Options? What Options?

Recently, I got involved in helping out a customer who had become frustrated using…

• 1 min read
IC 6.1 , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

Verification

Q&A With Nick Heaton: Accelerating Verification Methodology and Tool Adoption

TeamMDV: Have you ever wondered why EDA Vendors don't make it easier for our customers…

• 5 min read
workshops , IPCM , methodology , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Incisive , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , MDV

Verification

Tech Tip: Waving Specman Objects in SimVision

Did you know that you can wave Specman objects in IES-XL *and* also save the wave…

• 1 min read
Specman , debug , Functional Verification , simvision , e , IES-XL

SoC and IP

The End of NAND Flash as we Know It: Micron’s Dean Klein and Samsung’s Tony Kim Look…

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software Today, NAND Flash is king of the semiconductor…

• 3 min read

Digital Design

Encounter Screencast: Editing Wires More Quickly With Bindkeys

The Encounter Digital Implementation System offers interactive wire editing capabilities…

• 1 min read
Wire Editor , encounter digital implementation system , Digital Implementation , bindkeys

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About SigXp UI Changes? SPB16.3 Has Many New Enhancements!

The SPB16.3 SigXP UI has been enhanced to focus on giving users better access to…

• 8 min read
SigXP UI , layer stacks , SPB 16.3 , PCB design , Allegro

Digital Design

Sometimes It's The Little Things: Working With Square Brackets in Encounter

Good news! A long-standing source of irritation for Encounter users has been addressed…

• 1 min read
Ease of Use , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

Android System Verification Part 6

Welcome to Part 6 of Android System Verification. It's getting hard to trace back…

• 3 min read
emulator , android , System Design and Verification , system

RF Engineering

Using The Composite Triple Beat Source to Speed up QPSS Analysis

Say you have a design with 4 input frequencies: 3164M (vco), 1449M (tone0), 1456M…

• 2 min read
RFIC , QPSS Analysis , CTB , Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , MMSIM , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance , Composite Triple Beat

SoC and IP

The Flash Factor for Consumer Devices: Will NAND Flash and Hard Disk Storage Coexist…

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software If you spend a lot of time reading and…

• 4 min read
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