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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! - 10 Gbit package design paper available to conference attendees

For those of you that attended CDNLive! but may have missed the presentation on multi…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , 3D-IC , TSV , Allegro 16.2 , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SI analysis and modeling

Verification

Report from last week's "ClubT" events; preview of next week

As promised, here are some photos last week events, with embedded color commentary…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , HW/SW , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

Digital Design

Interview: CDNLive! People’s Choice Winner Jason Gentry

At the recently completed CDN Live! Silicon Valley 2008 user conference, I had a…

• less than a min read
dbGet , robust data access , CDNLive! , "SoC-Encounter"

Analog/Custom Design

Custom IC design and design environments

Design environments have come quite a long way from the time I began my engineering…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , RF design , Custom IC Design , custom design technology

Verification

Users Take Over at CDNLive! 2008

This year I did not attend CDNLive! in San Jose. I wasn't presenting anything and…

• 2 min read
HW/SW , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Functional Verification' signal integrity , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions)

Analog/Custom Design

Thanks Mr. Colton: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery

Recognize the name Charles Caleb Colton? No? He was a British writer who in 1820…

• 1 min read
Custom IC Design

Verification

The cell world

Earlier this Summer, I was lucky enough to attend the CDNLive show in Japan. One…

• 5 min read
IBM , Playstation , Toshiba , cell processor , Sony

System, PCB, & Package Design 

TSV, mainstream or niche?

I'm sure many of you will have read the article in Advanced Packaging click_here…

• 1 min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , IDMs , TSV , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

Analog/Custom Design

Latest Virtuoso news from CDNLive!

Hey Folks, thanks to all of you who participated in CDNLive SV. There was a lot of…

• 1 min read
CDNLive , Freescale , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Verification

In the EU next week for "ClubT" verification events

I'll be in the EU next week supporting "ClubT" events focused on advanced verification…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , Verification IP modeling , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: A brief Re-cap

Wow - what a great time I had attending this year's CDNLive! 2008 event in San Jose…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: Spectre Turbo - Fasten your Seatbelts!!

Although Spectre Turbo was released back in April, I hadn't found time to fully tinker…

• 1 min read

Verification

Embedded Software Bugging and Debugging

In one of my previous posts I introduced an interesting book titled Dreaming in Code…

• 4 min read
bugging and debugging' , System Design and Verification , embedded software

Verification

Getting more value from the OVM using Metric-Driven Verification

With all of the momentum around the OVM these days there has been a lot of good discussion…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM

Verification

Verification community comes together to talk tech

I just finished the week at Cadence's CDNLive User Group in San Jose. Over the past…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Formal Analysis , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Simulation acceleration , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification

Verification

A few thoughts on CDNLive! and OVM 2.0

My colleague Joe Hupcey has been keeping you informed and entertained with information…

• 1 min read
CDNLive San Jose 2008 , OVM 2.0

Verification

OVM 2.0 -- Short Technical Review

By now you may have seen the official announcement of the OVM 2.0 release . So what…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , OVM , CDV , System Verification , OVM 2.0

Verification

Day 3 of CDNLive San Jose

Highlights of Day 3: papers all morning, lunch, then closing remarks. Comments on…

• less than a min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , Verification IP modeling , ISX

Digital Design

Running SoC-Encounter...from an iPhone

Hello from CDNLive Silicon Valley 2008! I've had a great few days out here interacting…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , iPhone Cisco VPN Client , Mocha VNC Lite , iPhone
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