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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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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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New AEware: Generate vr_ad Definitions for IP-XACT XML IP Blocks

[Please welcome guest blogger Steve Hobbs, an Application Engineer in our Field…

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Specman , IP-XACT , vr_ad , Register Package , e , Spirit

Welcome to the "Exploring the Virtual Platform" Series

Today I'm starting a series of articles related to what is commonly called the Virtual…

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virtual platform , System Design and Verification , virtual protoype

Aart DeGeus' Surprise Comment at Last Night's EDAC CEO Forum

Last night the Electronic Design Automation Consortium ("EDAC", the trade group for…

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IEEE 1647 , events , Functional Verification , e , EDAC

Generation Debugging With "IntelliGen" (With Video)

You might have seen the Generation Debugger of Specman's new Generation Engine IntelliGen…

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IntelliGen , Specman , e , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Predictions for 2009

Having summarized the main verification technology-specific observations that the…

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Specman , HW/SW , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OSCI , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , SystemC , ISX , System Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Functional Coverage for Embedded Software

Hardware verification has evolved into keeping track of a pile of different types…

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FoCus , IBM , System Design and Verification , Specmen , DV club

The New Generation Testcase Utility

Specman's new Generation Engine, "IntelliGen", adopts an entirely new generation…

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IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

A Look Back On 2008 (Before Hazarding Predictions for 2009)

Before I dare take a stab at adding to the many predictions already made for 2009…

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HW/SW , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , e , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , coverage driven verification (CDV)

The Eternal Debate: "Like" vs. "When" Inheritance

First: Happy New Year, Specmaniacs! Much like the rivarly between the New York Yankees…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Functional Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

Power tool: The Reflection API

One endless source of neat little tricks is the Reflection API built into Specman…

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Metric-Driven Verification in a Box...

In my last few posts, I was explaining our focus here in Cadence Verification on…

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metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , Verification IP modeling , eRM

Make Your Command Line Life Easier With "specman -e"

Hi All, It always amazes me to see just how many Specman users make use of the interactive…

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Specman , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Who said Cadence Can't Invent New Technology Anymore?

I and the rest of the Cadence C-to-Silicon Compiler (CtoS) team were thrilled yesterday…

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deepchip , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silicon

Shout-out: Q1 2009 DV Club Schedule Posted

Last month I had the pleasure of attending a DV Club lunch presentation on analog…

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events , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification

Thanks for a Great 2008!

Even though 2008 will probably go down in history as the year of Doom and Gloom we…

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Using e Ports

The other day I saw some posts to the Yahoo Specman group regarding e ports. The…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Testbench simulation , e , Verification IP modeling , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Quickly Create and Manage e Functional Coverage

As a verification engineer, I have always found creating coverage code to be one…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , MDV techtorial , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , coverage driven verification (CDV)

Video Demo: “irun” – The Way to run Simulations!

The irun utility provides a use-model to run simulations with Incisive Simulator…

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Functional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Is it Necessary to Improve the Quality of Consumer Electronics?

Fellow blogger Joe Hupcey passed along a link covering the recent launch of the BlackBerry…

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System Design and Verification , software acceleration , blackberry , Enterprise Manager , ISX

Constraint Layering - Fine Tuning Your Environment - Part 2

In my last post , I talked briefly about constraint layering in which I gave an extremely…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , IES , AOP

New Technical Blog on e & Specman Technology

Specmaniacs of the world: rejoice! Members of Team Specman have just launched their…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , e

Constraint layering - Fine Tuning Your Environment - Part 1

In today's environment of ever growing complexity and ever shrinking schedules,…

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IEEE 1647 , SystemVerilog , Specman , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , e , OOP , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

New e / Specman Workshops Available Now

In response to the continual growth in the e /Specman user community, Team Specman…

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workshops , IEEE 1647 , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , MDV techtorial , OVM e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , Kit , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM , IES

New Blog - All About e & Specman

End-users of e , Specman, Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES), e RM/OVM e , and…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , OVM e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Metric Driven System Level Verification

I have the great honor of introducing a wonderful paper on system level verification…

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System Design and Verification , ARC International , ISX

VMM Users -- Welcome to the OVM!

VMM users -- welcome to the OVM! We've been talking together about the benefits…

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SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , e , eRM , OVMWorld

News From the IP '08 Conference

My colleagues on the Verification IP team have been honored to present at the annual…

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HW/SW , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Verification IP modeling , ISX

Follow-up on Posedge Software Interview

Just a quick follow-up to my previous interview with Henry Von Bank of Posedge Software…

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posedge , System Design and Verification , ISX
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