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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…

Sanjeet Kumar
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Verification IP , eUSB2v2 , featured , Functional Verification , USB
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e Running Inside VCS Anniversary Updates?

It's been a year since I heard the first solid report about Synopsys supporting…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , Testbench simulation , e , multi-language , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Virtualization and Verification With Posedge Software

Posedge Software is a Cadence Verification Alliance Member with skills in two of…

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posedge , open virtual platforms , System Design and Verification , OVP , QEMU

Thoughts on AMS Verification Inspired by the DV Club Lunch

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a DV Club lunch presentation from Dr.…

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AMS , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification

Heads-up: Formal + Productivity Flow Technical Webinar Coming Up On Nov 12th

Heads-up: there is a free technical webinar next Wednesday 11/12 that goes deeper…

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FPV , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , coverage driven verification (CDV)

Portable Design Names Cadence Incisive Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis its September…

In his article in Portable Design, John Donovan wrote: Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis…

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Portable Design , System Design and Verification , Palladium

Welcome Sharath Siddappa From Rambus, You Are The 5000th OVM World Registrant!

Welcome Sharath Siddappa, the 5000th OVM World registrant! In only 10 months, the…

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SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , eRM , OVMWorld

OVM - The "O" Means Opportunity

A few months back I blogged that OVM was " Open for Business ". A nice play on words…

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Simantis , eclipse , KPIT , Functional Verification , IBM , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , Doulos

Report From the Advanced Verification Techtorial in San Jose Tuesday 10/28

I'm excited to report that Tuesday's techtorial, covering a range of topics underneath…

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Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

The Power of Cadence System Power Flow vs. Viewing from the Top

I feel that I must respond to the following blog published by Frank Schirrmeister…

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Incyte Chip , System Design and Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Palladium , power engineer , C-to-Silicon , Power Analysis , Frank Schirrmeister

ESC Boston: Day 2

This morning before heading to ESC it dawned on me that the park across the street…

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System Design and Verification , ESC , ISX , Coverage Driven Verification

Virtualization Taxonomy

I arrived safe and sound at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston today. It's…

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VM ware , virtualization , taxonomy , real-time systems , Embedded Systems Conference , System Design and Verification , ESC

OVM Momentum and Interoperability

The question of how to integrate legacy VMM VIP into OVM verification environments…

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OVM Professionals Network , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , VIP , Verification IP modeling

Verification Techtorial in San Jose next Tuesday 10/28

Apologies for the shameless promotion, but I can't resist touting an event I'm producing…

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Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Formal Moment Of Zen

Most of my experience in functional verification prior to my dabbling in FPV was…

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OVL , FPV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , SCV , SVA , FIFO , PSL , Simulation acceleration , SystemC

Is Host-Code Execution History?

Before getting into the details of today's topic I'm happy to report a brand new…

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Cisco , System Design and Verification , MIPS , Palladium , Sun , Verilog , OVP , ARM , Virtutech , QEMU

Top 5 Stumbling Blocks In FPV Adoption

My first post served as a context for this blog. It also telegraphed my intention…

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verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification

More on today's Verification IP portfolio expansion news

Today's announcement on our expanding Verification IP (VIP) portfolio inspired me…

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Functional Verification , Verification IP modeling , multi-language

Getting more value from the OVM using Metric-Driven Verification - Part II

In my last post , I talked about how OVM is a methodology for building automated…

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metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , ARM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Early Embedded Systems Conference Coverage

Today, a friend sent me a link to an article on embedded.com that talks about my…

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System Design and Verification , Embedded Systems Boston Conference

Is there a 1 Billion gate chip on your roadmap?

Yes, I'm asking about chips that will have 1 billion -- that's billion with a "B…

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verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , System Verification

System-level design and verification - at the center!

This year, Cadence increases its focus on system-level design and verification events…

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Acceleration , System Design and Verification , embedded software , Emulation , ESL handoff , System simulation and analysis , Coverage Driven Verification for Embedded Software , embedded SW engineer , CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2008 , ISX , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL , architect

Power Aware Design Now at System Level

Several years ago, I have purchased a cell phone with a 2 years contract from one…

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Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Low power verification and analysis , system validation/verification engineer , Verification Acceleration , System simulation and analysis , embedded SW engineer , Simulation acceleration , C-to-Silicon Compiler , Hardware/software co-verification , debugging , ESL , architect

An informal introduction

Formal verification can mean different things depending upon who you speak to. If…

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Formal Analysis , Model-checking

Report from last week's "ClubT" events; preview of next week

As promised, here are some photos last week events, with embedded color commentary…

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SystemVerilog , HW/SW , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

Users Take Over at CDNLive! 2008

This year I did not attend CDNLive! in San Jose. I wasn't presenting anything and…

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HW/SW , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Functional Verification' signal integrity , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions)

The cell world

Earlier this Summer, I was lucky enough to attend the CDNLive show in Japan. One…

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IBM , Playstation , Toshiba , cell processor , Sony

In the EU next week for "ClubT" verification events

I'll be in the EU next week supporting "ClubT" events focused on advanced verification…

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SystemVerilog , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , Verification IP modeling , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

Embedded Software Bugging and Debugging

In one of my previous posts I introduced an interesting book titled Dreaming in Code…

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bugging and debugging' , System Design and Verification , embedded software
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