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

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

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

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Verification IP , eUSB2v2 , featured , Functional Verification , USB
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Speed Verification Turnaround by Extending Metric-Driven Verification (MDV) to T…

One of the main benefits of moving the design entry point up in abstraction from…

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New Product: ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now

Preface: on Tuesday December 11 we are giving a free a webinar on "ACE Assertion…

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Techniques to Boost Incisive Simulation Performance

Functional verification is the biggest challenge in delivering more complex electronic…

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UVM e vr_ad -- Specman Read/Write Register Enhancements

If you are a Specman vr_ad user, you probably know that register access is implemented…

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AF , uvm , Specman , Functional Verification , vr_ad , Register Package , e language , UVMe , register enhancements

Optimizing ARM Based Designs for Low Power using Emulation

The month November goes to the Brits, no question. Not only did the James Bond movie…

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ESL Market , Nufront , FPGA Based Prototyping , Verification Computing Platform , Virtual System Platform , Peng Wang , cadence , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Dynamic Power Analysis , System Design and Verification , System Development Suite , embedded software , Palladium XP , Emulation , ARM , Schirrmeister , low power optimization

Need e/Specman Expertise ASAP? Free Training and Verification Alliance Partners Are…

Recently an EDA industry observer relayed some Specmaniacs' concerns about satisfying…

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CDNLive paper: High-level Synthesis on Video Processing ASIC

The proceedings from the recent CDNLive! event in Israel recently became available…

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Function Level C Interface – New C Interface for Specman

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Creating Custom File Systems and the Linux Loop Device

A few weeks ago we had a crisis at our house. My son managed to delete the data from…

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How Many Cycles are Needed to Verify ARM’s big.LITTLE on Palladium XP?

At the recent CDNLive! India user conference, Deepak Venkatesan and Murtaza Johar…

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Event Report: Club Formal San Jose – Features and Techniques for Experts, Verification…

Last week over 35 power users from over a dozen companies came together for the latest…

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Ubuntu 12.10 on a Virtual Platform at ARM Techcon

Next week (Oct. 30-Nov. 1) ARM TechCon 2012 is at the Santa Clara Convention Center…

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Margins are Costly - Don't Let Them Grow Out of Control!

Last week, Professor Jan Rabaey of the University of California at Berkeley gave…

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Changing the Game with Processor Based Emulation

I have always been fascinated by game changing moves. Some are more successful than…

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UVM SystemVerilog in a Multi-Language SoC World: UVM-ML Webinar

Every SoC project uses multiple languages. Even if the design itself is purely Verilog…

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Recorded Webinar: Using Metric-Driven Verification and Formal Together For Higher…

[Preface: the upcoming " Club Formal " on October 17 here at the Cadence San Jose…

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Using pli_access for Stubless Indexed Ports

Indexed ports are used to access composite HDL objects in SystemVerilog (SV). Their…

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Shameless Promotion: Free Club Formal San Jose (with Lunch) on Wednesday 10/17

Please join Team Verify and other design and verification engineers at the next …

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iPhone5 Differentiation is Chip Design

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Using a Network File System with the Xilinx Zynq-7000 Virtual Platform

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Accelerated VIP Delivers Value for Firmware/Driver Validation and Integration

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What Does it Take to Migrate from e to UVMe?

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