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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
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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
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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
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news story , Verification IP , featured
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Verification

Verification and the Need for Collaboration

Earlier this week I was at the ARM TechCon in Santa Clara, a show that gets better…

• 2 min read
NextOp , ARM Techcon , uvm , collaboration , Zocalo , Functional Verification , Standards , partnerships , VA , EDA360 , EDA , Duolog , verification alliance , UCIS , AMIQ

Verification

Report: Formal Analysis Papers at CDNLive India 2011

On October 19, 2011 in Bangalore, India more than 800 engineers across all domains…

• 3 min read
ABV , CDNLive , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , ABVIP , formal , Lokesh Pundreeka , ADS , metric-driven verification , assertions , MDV , IEV , Assertion-Driven Simulation , Formal verification , IFV , India , Assertion-based verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI IOCell Editor in Model Editor? 16.5 Has a Few New Enhancements

There are currently multiple options for model editing in the Allegro PCB SI environment…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , I/O , SiP , Signal Intregrity , Digital SiP design , SigXP UI , PCB Signal and power integrity , High Speed , Allegro 16.5 , SigWave , Signal Integrity , Allegro PCB SI , PCB design , SPB16.5 , IOCell Editor , SI analysis and modeling , model editor , library , Allegro

Verification

Virtual Platform UART Use Number 4: Connecting to an RTOS Tracing Framework

This is the last installment of my series on different uses for the UART in Virtual…

• 4 min read
Virtual System Platform , virtual platforms , Quantum Platform , virtual prototypes , dining philosophers , UART , System Design and Verification , RTOS tracing , QP , software , qspy

Verification

Come See How to Connect SystemVerilog and SystemC Using UVM

All pun-tastic references aside, connecting SystemVerilog and SystemC is becoming…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , OVM ML , Functional Verification , webinar , multi-language , SystemC , IES

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About APD’s Die Abstract Compare? You’ll Need the 16.5 Release to See

In the distributed co-design environment in the SPB16.5 Allegro Package Designer…

• 4 min read
PCB , SiP , IC Packaging , packaging , SiP Design , APD , Allegro 16.5 , IC/package co-design , PCB Editor , Allegro Package Designer , Layout , design , PCB design , die abstract compare , SPB16.5 , die abstract , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 3

In the previous posting Introduction to Classes -- Part 2 we saw the high level…

• 8 min read
Team SKILL , programming , Sudoku , classes , IC 6.1.5 , object orientation , Virtuoso , Lisp , Custom IC Design , SKILL++ , SKILL

Verification

Too Many Missing Real-World Assertions?

Well, here I am embarking on my fifth post in which I point out illogical situations…

• 4 min read
ABV , Functional Verification , formal , assertions , Assertion-based verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro to Preview PCB 3D Full-Wave Technology at EPEPS 2011

At the Electrical Performance of Electronic Packaging and Systems conference ( EPEPS…

• 1 min read
PCB , UIUC , EMS2D , EPEPS , interconnects , PCB PI , packaging , 3D extraction , PCB Signal and power integrity , Signal Integrity , full-wave , Allegro PCB SI , PCB design , EM , EMS3D , DDR3 , Allegro

Verification

Formal Verification with Asynchronous Clocks

Many designs have multiple independent clock inputs with different frequency specifications…

• 2 min read
ABV , asssertion-based verification , Joerg Mueller , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , SVA , PSL , assertions , IEV , Formal verification , IFV , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro GRE Disabling Bundle Compression? It’s in the 16.5 Release

With the SPB16.5 release of Allegro Global Route Environment (GRE) , you can now…

• 1 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , bundle compression , global route , Routing , Allegro 16.5 , PCB Editor , Layout , design , PCB design , SPB16.5 , Allegro PCB Editor , GRE , disabiling bundle compression , Allegro

Verification

Automating UVM to Tackle Insidious HW/SW Bugs

You've just sat through a 2-hour program review. The 30 minutes you spent describing…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , bugs , Duolog , universal verification methodology , Accellera VIP TSC , David Murray , IES

RF Engineering

Guidelines for Maximizing Speed vs Accuracy for Harmonic Balance - Part 1

Greetings, I am often asked for guidelines on maximizing speed vs. accuracy for SpectreRF…

• 2 min read
RF , RF Simulation , analog/RF , APS , HB , Spectre RF , Analog Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , ADE , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Router HDI Via Tangency? Check Out 16.5!

High Density Interconnect (HDI) techniques are increasing in the PCB domain. HDI…

• 1 min read
PCB , blind vias , global route , Routing , layer stacks , High Speed , via tangency , Allegro 16.5 , PCB Editor , High-Density Interconnect , Layout , via , design , miniaturization , PCB design , SPB16.5 , Allegro PCB Editor , buried vias , HDI , microvia , Allegro

Verification

Free Webinar Thursday 10/13 -- Automating Assertion Generation for Simulation, Formal…

Everyone can agree that Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) is a powerful methodology…

• 1 min read
NextOp , Joe Hupcey III , ABV , methodology , interview , Formal Analysis , BugScope , Incisive , webinar , DVcon , assertion synthesis , assertions , IEV , Yuan Lu , Formal verification , IFV , Assertion-based verification , IES-XL

Verification

17M Gates in 8 Months with 2 Designers -- What is Your ROI for Higher-Abstraction…

In their presentation at the recent SystemC Japan conference, Renesas Micro Systems…

• 3 min read
time-to-market , High-Level Synthesis , verification turnaround , TLM , C-to-Silcon , ROI , System-Level Design , SystemC , C-to-Silicon Compiler , productivity

Digital Design

Encounter Quick Tip: Dimming the Display with F12

I remember when I first started working with the Cooper & Chyan Technology (CCT)…

• 1 min read
dimming display , Encounterer Digital Implementation System , highlight , display , encounter , highlighted objects , darken display , quick tip , F12

Analog/Custom Design

Managing ECOs in Mixed Signal Designs

Imagine you are days away from completing the implementation of a fairly complex…

• 3 min read
ECO , Farhat , mixed signal design , CPF , Open Access , Floorplanning , ECOs , mixed-signal ECOs , Mixed-Signal , encounter , Virtuoso , oa , Mixed signal physical implementation

Verification

Amazon’s New Kindles: More Steps Toward the Paperback Computer

While I understand that a new Kindle Fire at $199 MRSP is significantly more than…

• 4 min read
Verification IP , RPP , SaaS , Joe Hupcey III , paperback computer , Cadence VIP portfolio , Kindle , system realization , VIP , EDA360 , EDA , VSP , Palladium XP , tablet , Hosted Design Solutions , Jim Hogan , Rapid Prototyping Platform , Amazon , Steve Leibson , cloud computing
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