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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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IP Group @ 53rd DAC – Veni Vidi Vici

Another DAC, and this year someone put a jalapeno in my margarita at the Denali Party…

• 2 min read
DAC , Verification IP , IP , DDR4 , LPDDR4 , SerDes

How to Find Where Declared e Entities Are Used

The e Reflection API allows you to perform various queries on entities in your own…

• 4 min read
IEEE 1647 , funtional verification , Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , Funcional Verification , specman elite , IES

How to Maximize Your Verification Experience at DAC 2016

Next week will mark the annual EDA gathering in Austin. For me it is my 20th DAC…

• 13 min read
dac2016 , DAC , Verification Computing Platform , Protium , Palladium , Prtable Stimulus

Simulation Acceleration—Maximizing Simulator Performance

"Simulation Acceleration” or “Accelerated Verification” are terms commonly used to…

• 4 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , specman elite , verification

Building Efficient Scoreboards

A “scoreboard” is a verification component that checks the data sent to the DUT against…

• 7 min read

RTL Signoff vs. Functional Signoff

The notion of signoff has many layers to it, both in terms of complexity but also…

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funtional verification , IMC , metric driven verification (MDV) , functional coverage , MDV , vManager

Modelling a Value Holder Template with the Value “new-ed” by Default

In many companies, there is a well-defined flow for handling monitored data items…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , tech tips , e , e language , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP , verification

How to Handle a Binding Catastrophe

Are you busy debugging your environment topology and coming up against components…

• 3 min read
Specman , TLM , binding

e Templates – Cool Tool, Now Even Cooler

One of the reasons why verification engineers love e is the power it gives them as…

• 3 min read

UVM-ML OA: Now Within Incisive Platform As Well!

Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you…

• 3 min read
Specman , UVM-ML OA , Incisive , multi-language

Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this…

• 4 min read
methodology , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , vPlan , Incisive , Plan and metrics management , vManager

Using Tables to Handle Configurability in Incisive Enterprise Specman

Most, if not all, designs which are being verified today are configurable. This is…

• 2 min read
IntelliGen , configurable designs , Specman , tech tips , Funcional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Specman

Cheating Tetris

Remember Tetris? We’ve all played it at some point in our lives. You know, the game…

• 2 min read
Verification Computing Platform , Palladium , Tetris , Emulation

A Coverage Time-Saving Tip

How often has this happened to you? You are re-using a part of a previous design…

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IMC , coverage , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Incisive , metric-driven verification , MDV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Is There Market Appetite for PCIe 4.0? A View from Tokyo and Taipei

Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan…

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PCIe Gen4 , VIP , PCIe , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

MIPI CSI-2—What's Cooking with the Most Popular Mobile Camera Interface?

The MIPI CSI-2 (Camera Serial Interface) specification is celebrating its tenth birthday…

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Verification IP , MIPI Alliance , IoT , VIP , MIPI , CSI

Incisive vManager Free Video Training

The Incisive vManager tool for professional verification planning and management…

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Functional Verification , Cadence Online Support , Incisive , training , vManager

Accelerating the Next Big Shift in Verification

Today Cadence announced that we are aligning our proposal to the Accellera Portable…

• 5 min read
pswg , scenario , UML , software-driven verification , Accellera

Double-Take: Improving Validation Test Suite with System-Level, Coverage-Driven …

Application Spotlight When Freescale wanted to measure the coverage of their validation…

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validation test suite , Freescale , Coverage-Driven Verification , Palladium XP , verification

Make Your Debugging Faster by Recording Your Simulator

One of the famous quotes of Brian Kernighan is: "Debugging is twice as hard as writing…

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Specman , debug , e , specman elite , simulation , verification

Use Model Versatility Is Key for Emulation Returns on Investment

It is always great to see when customers confirm what we in product management put…

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ROI , use models , Emulation , DAC 2015 , System Design and Verification

Extending the e Language with Anonymous Methods

We're happy to have guest blogger Thorsten Dworzak describe how he added anonymous…

• 8 min read
Functional Verification , Ruby , anonymous methods , e language

Performance and the Use of Port mvl Lists (or, Nothing in Life is Free…)

When connecting to the DUT signals, we usually refer to the values as 0s or 1s. But…

• 4 min read
performance , Specman , Functional Verification , Incisive , e , e language

The Dark Side of Constraints on 'do-not-generate' Fields

The art of expressing hardware functionality through constraint language is often…

• 7 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , e language , constraint coding

Debugging Multi-Language Verification Environments

As shown in previous blog posts in the Multi-Language Verification Environment series…

• 4 min read
uvm , UVM-ML , multi-language verification , debugging

Designing a Google Ara Module and Worrying About MIPI UniPro?

So you've looked at Google project ARA and you have the most brilliant idea for a…

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Verification IP , UniPro , Ara , VIP , MIPI , google , TripleCheck

Aargh!!! How Can I Read Arguments from the Command Line Without argv?

Many times a user would like to be able to modify the behavior of a program based…

• 3 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e language , simulation

Multi-Language Verification Environment (#4)—Multi-Language Hierarchy

In the previous posts in this series on Multi-Language Verification Environment,…

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uvm , Functional Verification , e , universal verification methodology , e language , multi-language , verification
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