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news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network , SKY130

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New Ultra-Fast Debug Solution for Palladium Emulation with Verisium Debug

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news story , featured , verisium , AI

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Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum

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featured , cadence , OIP Partner of the Year , AI-Driven Design , TSMC
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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…

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Verification

New Technical Blog on e & Specman Technology

Specmaniacs of the world: rejoice! Members of Team Specman have just launched their…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , e

Verification

Constraint layering - Fine Tuning Your Environment - Part 1

In today's environment of ever growing complexity and ever shrinking schedules,…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , SystemVerilog , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , e , OOP , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

Verification

New e / Specman Workshops Available Now

In response to the continual growth in the e /Specman user community, Team Specman…

• 2 min read
workshops , IEEE 1647 , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , MDV techtorial , OVM e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , Kit , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM , IES

Verification

New Blog - All About e & Specman

End-users of e , Specman, Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES), e RM/OVM e , and…

• 1 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , OVM e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About SPB16.2 OrCAD Capture? Many Usability Enhancements!

There are enormous usability updates in the SPB16.2 release of OrCAD Capture. From…

• 7 min read
SPB 16.2 , OrCAD , PCB design

Analog/Custom Design

What's New With Virtuoso?

If you were wondering what's new with Virtuoso you may want to check out the latest…

• less than a min read
MMSIM , Floorplanning , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , RF design , Custom IC Design

Verification

Metric Driven System Level Verification

I have the great honor of introducing a wonderful paper on system level verification…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , ARC International , ISX

Verification

VMM Users -- Welcome to the OVM!

VMM users -- welcome to the OVM! We've been talking together about the benefits…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , e , eRM , OVMWorld

Digital Design

3 Reasons Why You Will Want to Download Encounter 8.1

Today is a big day in Digital Implementation land here at Cadence. Looking around…

• less than a min read
Flows , SoC-Encounter 8.1 , Low-Power , Digital Implementation , Floorplanning and Prototyping

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the SPB16.2 Cross Referencer? Active Links in the Schematic!

That's right - an often requested feature from several customers has now been implemented…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design
CDNS - Fix Layout Hompage