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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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• 3 min read
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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JasperGold FPV: Asynchronous Designs? No Problem!

Asynchronous designs happen. They’re not particularly easy to verify, but sometimes…

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Functional Verification , jaspergold fpv , asynchronous , JasperGold

Cadence Is Arm-and-Arm with Arm: Fast Models for Fast Prototyping

If you’re not familiar with the Arm/Cadence collaboration , you’ve been missing out…

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Fast Models , Protium , Palladium , ARM

Celsius on Protium - Using Cadence Tools to Improve Cadence Tools?

The Cadence tool flow is the most comprehensive flow around. If there is an EDA need…

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celsius , Functional Verification , Protium

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Looking to learn more about the best practices for emulating today’s billion-gate…

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Functional Verification , mellanox , Palladium , Tips

Xcelium ML: The Next Big Thing in Regression

Looking for that extra kick in your regression performance? Cadence’s Xcelium Logic…

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machine learning , xcelium , Regression

The Best Way to Learn SystemVerilog Accelerated Verification with UVM – Blended …

UVM is a heavily used, standard, proven, easy-to-use, automated verification methodology…

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online_training , uvm , blended_training , training_bytes , digital_badge , Cadence support

Troubleshooting Xcelium Errors/Warnings with xmhelp/xmbrowse and Cadence Support…

I joined Cadence in July 2000 and was immediately put on a three-month training to…

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Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback (part 2)

In recent blogs - specman-callback-coverage-api and improving-tests-efficiency-using…

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Specman , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , e language

Training Insights - Comprehensive RTL Signoff Using JasperGold Superlint App

Most have heard the phrase "time is money". Thinking more about it, probably the…

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Functional Verification , bugs , RTL , formal , RTL designer Signoff , webinar , assertions , Lint , Superlint

Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback

When you go to the store, you walk until you get there, stop, get your groceries…

• 7 min read
Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Specman e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , verification

Interconnect Beyond PCIe: CXL and Cache Coherent Interconnect

As the de facto IO interconnect technology, PCIe has commendably addressed the performance…

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Verification IP , VIP , PCIe , Internet of Things , Denali , PCI Express , verification

Catching up with Higher Ethernet Speed: VIP Supports 802.3ck

Draft 1.0 of 802.3ck, also known as 100G per lane, was finally published by IEEE…

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Sizing Up eUSB2 Verification

USB is one of the most widely used interfaces in the PC market for more than 20 years…

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Why Is the Evolving HBM3 Such a Revolutionary Technology and How Can You Be Ready…

Since 2013, we have seen the HBM specifications being released by JEDEC and companies…

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Specman’s Callback Coverage API

Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources…

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Specman , Specman/e , Specman coverage engine , coverage , Specman e , specman elite , Coverage Driven Verification

Metamorphic Testing: The Future of Verification?

Curious about what’s going on behind the scenes with verification? Bernard Murphy…

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Functional Verification , Semiwiki , metamorphic testing

RAK Attack: Better Driver Tracing, Faster Palladium Build Time, UVM Register Map…

Looking to learn? There's a bunch of new RAKs (Rapid Adoption Kits) available online…

• 2 min read
Rapid Adoption Kit , IXCOM , RAK , Indago , JasperGold

Verification of the Lane Adapter FSM of a USB4 Router Design Is Not Simple

Verifying lane adapter state machine in a router design is quite an involved task…

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A Specman/e Syntax for Sublime Text 3

We're happy to have guest blogger Thorsten Dworzak, Principal Consultant at Verilab…

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USB3, PCIe, DisplayPort Protocol Traffic Finding its Way Through USB4 Routers

USB4 can simultaneously tunnel USB3, PCIe and DisplayPort native protocol traffic…

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Cashing the PSS Promises

A little bit of everything in the blog today: PSS is All Over As someone that was…

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Specman: Analyze Your Coverage with Python

In the former blog about Python and Specman: Specman: Python Is here! , we described…

• 8 min read
Specman , Specman coverage engine , coverage , Python , Functional Verification , Specman e , e , e language , specman elite , functional coverage

Dimensions to Verifying a USB4 Design

Verification of a USB4 router design is not just about USB4 but also about the inclusion…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , Router , DisplayPort , USB , usb4 , PCIe , USB3 , tunneling

Automotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 2 of 2

If you missed the first part of this series, you can find it here . So: what does…

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Automotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 1 of 2

Autonomous vehicles are coming. In a statistic from the U.S. Department of Transportation…

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Complexity is driving the urgency for advanced artificial intelligence systems more…

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