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Cadence RTL Design Studio: Built for the Full PPAC Journey

If you've used Joules RTL Design Studio, you already know what it can do. Now it…

raquelp
• 2 min read
Digital Design and Signoff , featured , Joules , Digital Implementation , rtlstudio

Corporate News

How the New ASK AI Assistant Makes Support More Seamless

Finding the right answer often takes more than one question. Users may start with…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , customer support , Generative AI , ASK Portal , ASK AI Assitant

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You'll Still Do the Work—You Just Won't Do the Boring Part

Agentic AI is about to change your flow. Here's what actually shifts—and why the…

Corporate
• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA , AI for design

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Feedback Loop Is the Moat

Every verification and design team I talk to is building agents right now. The demos…

Hamid Shojaei
• 14 min read
featured , AI in chip design , GenAI , AI/ML
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Verification

A Look Back On 2008 (Before Hazarding Predictions for 2009)

Before I dare take a stab at adding to the many predictions already made for 2009…

• 4 min read
HW/SW , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , e , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , coverage driven verification (CDV)

Verification

The Eternal Debate: "Like" vs. "When" Inheritance

First: Happy New Year, Specmaniacs! Much like the rivarly between the New York Yankees…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Functional Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

Digital Design

Coming This Friday January 9th: Encounter Digital Implementation Office Hours

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a restful, enjoyable and healthy holiday…

• 1 min read
Digital Implementation forums , chat , Encounter Digital Implementation

Verification

Power tool: The Reflection API

One endless source of neat little tricks is the Reflection API built into Specman…

• 1 min read

Verification

Metric-Driven Verification in a Box...

In my last few posts, I was explaining our focus here in Cadence Verification on…

• 1 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , Verification IP modeling , eRM

Verification

Make Your Command Line Life Easier With "specman -e"

Hi All, It always amazes me to see just how many Specman users make use of the interactive…

• 1 min read
Specman , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Verification

Who said Cadence Can't Invent New Technology Anymore?

I and the rest of the Cadence C-to-Silicon Compiler (CtoS) team were thrilled yesterday…

• 1 min read
deepchip , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silicon

Verification

Shout-out: Q1 2009 DV Club Schedule Posted

Last month I had the pleasure of attending a DV Club lunch presentation on analog…

• less than a min read
events , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification

Verification

Thanks for a Great 2008!

Even though 2008 will probably go down in history as the year of Doom and Gloom we…

• 1 min read

Digital Design

It’s the Season of Giving – Send Me Your Design Innovations!

In the last blog, I wrote about innovating your way out of recession with new designs…

• 2 min read
digital Implementationg , innovation , encounter

Verification

Using e Ports

The other day I saw some posts to the Yahoo Specman group regarding e ports. The…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Testbench simulation , e , Verification IP modeling , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Verification

Quickly Create and Manage e Functional Coverage

As a verification engineer, I have always found creating coverage code to be one…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , MDV techtorial , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , coverage driven verification (CDV)

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Thank You!

As the 2008 year comes to a close, I wanted to say Thank You! Thanks to the hard…

• 1 min read
PCB design

Verification

Video Demo: “irun” – The Way to run Simulations!

The irun utility provides a use-model to run simulations with Incisive Simulator…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the SPB16.2 PSpice Models? BSIM4 Support!

The SPB16.2 release now has new MOSFET device Model BSIM4 Support in PSpice PSpice…

• 4 min read
RF , SPB 16.2 , PCB design , BSIM4 , MOSFET

Verification

Is it Necessary to Improve the Quality of Consumer Electronics?

Fellow blogger Joe Hupcey passed along a link covering the recent launch of the BlackBerry…

• 4 min read
System Design and Verification , software acceleration , blackberry , Enterprise Manager , ISX

Verification

Constraint Layering - Fine Tuning Your Environment - Part 2

In my last post , I talked briefly about constraint layering in which I gave an extremely…

• 4 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , IES , AOP

Analog/Custom Design

Video Chat with Lead Architect of Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator

Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator was just released and I asked Ilya Yusim…

• 1 min read
mixed-signal simulators , MMSIM , Circuit Design , Simulators , Custom IC Design , custom design technology

Digital Design

Become an Encounter Digital Implementation System Specialist and Win Cool Prizes

Last week, we announced the Encounter Digital Implementation System along with a…

• less than a min read
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