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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…

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Verification IP , eUSB2v2 , featured , Functional Verification , USB
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TLM , System Design and Verification , OSCI , SystemC , high level synthesis , HLS

The Scoop on Tracking & Validating Formal Assumptions – You Don’t Need to Assume

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North American SystemC User's Group Co-Located at DAC 2009

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AOP Discussion on LinkedIn

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Cadence System Design and Verification at DAC 2009

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DAC Virtual Platform Workshop

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Using Constraints to Pass Configuration Options in the Unit Hierarchy (Top-Down approach…

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