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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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Image Gallery: Cadence-Denali Party at DAC 2011 in San Diego

The 20nm roadmap . TSMC reference flow 12 . The UVM 1.1 release . Verification IP…

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DAC Cheesy Must See List: Enterprise Manager

Understandably, EDA industry observer John Cooley had to edit down all the submissions…

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DAC Preview: The Complete Incisive Enterprise Verifier Submission to John Cooley…

Understandably, EDA industry observer John Cooley had to edit down all the submissions…

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DAC Preview: Make Assertions Come Alive with Assertion-Driven Simulation

While Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) has been around for many years, ABV has…

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OVM 2.1.2 -- Getting You Ready for UVM

Talk about stability -- OVM 2.1.1 has had 18 months as the core of Accellera's UVM…

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Pre-RTL Software Development -- You Can't Get Your Product to Market Without It!

It's been an exciting month for the System Realization team with the announcement…

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Blazing a Trail With Ubuntu

One of the most popular blogs I wrote is running Incisive on Ubuntu . I have had…

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A Look at the Ongoing Functional Verification Seminar Series

Being a Marketing guy, one thing that I really enjoy is getting on the road for…

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Panel Discussion: Applying High-Level Synthesis in an SoC Flow

Last Thursday, EETimes hosted a virtual System on Chip event focused on IP integration…

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Sometimes the Real World Needs Assertions Too

Every once in a while, I like to do a lightweight blog post linking my work world…

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2011 CDNLive EMEA Highlights and Image Gallery: An EDA360 Spring Festival of Del…

Last week teammate Adam Sherer and I had the honor of representing the Incisive functional…

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Free Webinar This Thursday: Rapid Design Bring-Up Using Formal and Simulation To…

Allow us to shamelessly promote a free webinar (including a live demo) this Thursday…

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System Development Suite - Connecting Software to Hardware Design and Verificati…

I've been at CDNLive! EMEA watching demos of the newly announced System Development…

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Yes We Can...Do FPGA-Based Prototoyping

As part of this week's System Development Suite announcement , Cadence introduced…

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Welcome to the Cadence Virtual System Platform

The announcement of the Cadence Virtual System Platform is a momentous event for…

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Why Can’t You Write My Assertions for Me? - Part 3

My last two posts have dealt with various forms of automatic assertion creation…

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Building Open Virtual Platforms - Bridging the Gap of Model Availability

Virtual prototypes promise to enable early software development, shorten system bring…

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The Challenge of System Integration and Bring-Up

In the last few years, I have talked with many companies and analysts and consistently…

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Video: DVCon and DVClub Case Study: NextOp’s BugScope for Assertion-Based Verification…

Attendees of the Silicon Valley DVClub this past Tuesday were treated to some real…

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Why Can’t You Write My Assertions for Me? - Part 2

In my last post , I described three different types of automatic assertions: those…

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Video Easter Egg: Incisive Formal Verifier and SVA driving a Rubik's Cube robot

Just in time for Easter, Team Verify's Apurva Kalia, Manu Chopra, and Suman Ray of…

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Can DRAM Contents Survive a Reboot? Surprisingly, In Most Cases The Answer is, “Yes…

A Cadence DRAM Memory Controller IP customer asks, "I have a DRAM subsystem with…

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NEW Enterprise Planner Videos!

Videos on Enterprise Planner: What's it worth to you? Submitted By MDV…

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Combating System-Level Design Confusion

I would like to add my thanks to Gary Smith for his short "Industry Note" titled…

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1st Anniversary of the Team Verify Blog!

Verifiers rejoice: today is the 1st anniversary of the launch of this blog!!! To…

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Video: Update on AMIQ’s DVT IDE and UVM 1.0 at DVCon 2011

The UVM 1.0 release was the big story of DVCon 2011, as it's the first verification…

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Why Can’t You Write My Assertions for Me? - Part 1

As regular readers know from previous posts , I have a lot of background in assertion…

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Video: Formal Verification Service Provider Oski Technology at DVCon 2011

While there was a lot (justifiable) buzz around the UVM 1.0 release, formal and assertion…

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