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Cadence Welcomes VLAB Works

Cadence welcomes VLAB Works, a division of Australian Semiconductor Technology Corporation…

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Automotive , featured , Virtual Development Environment , vlab , Protium

Time on Your Side: Launching PSS Perspec Composer

We all agree that time is precious. As PSS ( Portable Stimuli Standard ) models get…

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featured , Perspec , pss , portable stimulus

Cadence Announces Industry's First Verification IP for Embedded USB2v2 (eUSB2v2)

USB Promoter Group has released the eUSB2® Version 2.0 specification (eUSB2v2) in…

Sanjeet Kumar
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Verification IP , eUSB2v2 , featured , Functional Verification , USB
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Tales from DAC: How Altia Systems Used Xcelium to Bring New Life to Virtual Meet…

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Perspec , perspec system verifier , AMIQ , Accellera , pss , portable stimulus

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security , Functional Verification , cadence cloud , xcelium , palladium cloud

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Specman , Specman/e , UVM-ML , Specman e , UVM multi-language , UVM-e , UVM ML , multi-language , multi-language UVM , multi-language verification , verification

Is It Time to Verify Your Chips in the Cloud? Part 2 of 3

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uvm , Functional Verification , EDA , HPC , cadence cloud

App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part III - SystemVerilog…

Welcome back to the third installment of a special multi-part edition of the App…

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SystemVerilog , Tip , Functional Verification , App Note Spotlight

Is it Time to Verify Your Chips in the Cloud? Part 1 of 3

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cloud-based verification , Functional Verification , cadence cloud , cloud computing

DMS 2.0 - What's Cool and What's New

Are you aware of all the cool new features in Digital Mixed Signal 2.0 (DMS 2.0)…

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digital mixed signal , Functional Verification , DMS 2.0 , xcelium simulator

Speedup SystemVerilog UVM Debug Regression Time with Dynamic Test Load

Microsemi has been evaluating a unique feature in Xcelium System Verilog UVM Dynamic…

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SystemVerilog , uvm , Dynamic Test Load , Functional Verification , xcelium

PCI-SIG Developer's Conference: What's New with Gen 5 and When Will it be Adopted…

The release of PCIe 4.0 rev 1.0 in October 2017 was anticlimactic after the announcement…

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controller IP , Verification IP , PCIe Gen4 , PHY , PCIe , PCIe Gen5 , verification

RAK Attack: Verifying Power Intent for Low Power Mixed Signal SoCs

The wait is finally over—the Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) for verifying the power intent…

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App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part II - SystemVerilog …

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Empowering Generation - Range Generated Fields (RGF)

Specman constraints solver process consists of a series of reductions and assignments…

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Leading the Charge: Cadence Announces New Verification IP for UFS 3.0, CoaxPress…

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hyperRAM , Functional Verification , coaxpress , UFS , press release

How We Developed and Tested a Prototype DDR5 Interface in Silicon Based on a Preliminary…

We’re thrilled to have announced our prototype 7nm DDR5 IP silicon based on a preliminary…

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Xcelium's New Save and Restart Saves You Time

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New AMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification and Its Support in Cadence ACE/AXI VIP

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NVMe Express 1.3: Addressing the Storage Needs of the Data Revolution from Enterprise…

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List of TLM Analysis Ports: Where Is This Packet Coming From?

Let’s say that you got an invitation from the police station nearest your home to…

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Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , team specman , xcelium

What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!

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CDNLive , Perspec , pss , portable stimulus

App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part I

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Preparing Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Ratification

The Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group met at the DVCon 2018 to move the process…

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pswg , Perspec , perspec system verifier , pss , portable stimulus

Temporals, Reset, and Test Phases

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Specman , UVM e , Specman e , e , e language

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