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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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Training Insights - Comprehensive RTL Signoff Using JasperGold Superlint App

Most have heard the phrase "time is money". Thinking more about it, probably the…

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Functional Verification , bugs , RTL , formal , RTL designer Signoff , webinar , assertions , Lint , Superlint

Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback

When you go to the store, you walk until you get there, stop, get your groceries…

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Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Specman e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , verification

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As the de facto IO interconnect technology, PCIe has commendably addressed the performance…

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Verification IP , VIP , PCIe , Internet of Things , Denali , PCI Express , verification

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Draft 1.0 of 802.3ck, also known as 100G per lane, was finally published by IEEE…

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USB is one of the most widely used interfaces in the PC market for more than 20 years…

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VIP , USB-IF , eUSB , USB 2.0 , eUSB2

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Since 2013, we have seen the HBM specifications being released by JEDEC and companies…

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Verification IP , Memory , VIP , JEDEC , HBM , storage , Design IP and Verification IP , verification

Specman’s Callback Coverage API

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Specman , Specman/e , Specman coverage engine , coverage , Specman e , specman elite , Coverage Driven Verification

Metamorphic Testing: The Future of Verification?

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Functional Verification , Semiwiki , metamorphic testing

RAK Attack: Better Driver Tracing, Faster Palladium Build Time, UVM Register Map…

Looking to learn? There's a bunch of new RAKs (Rapid Adoption Kits) available online…

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Rapid Adoption Kit , IXCOM , RAK , Indago , JasperGold

Verification of the Lane Adapter FSM of a USB4 Router Design Is Not Simple

Verifying lane adapter state machine in a router design is quite an involved task…

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Verification IP , DP , VIP , DisplayPort , PCIExpress , USB , Lane Adapter , usb4 , PCIe , usb4 router , tunneling

A Specman/e Syntax for Sublime Text 3

We're happy to have guest blogger Thorsten Dworzak, Principal Consultant at Verilab…

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Specman , Specman/e , Specman e , Sublime Text , specman elite

USB3, PCIe, DisplayPort Protocol Traffic Finding its Way Through USB4 Routers

USB4 can simultaneously tunnel USB3, PCIe and DisplayPort native protocol traffic…

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Verification IP , DP , DisplayPort , USB , usb4 , PCIe , tunneling

Cashing the PSS Promises

A little bit of everything in the blog today: PSS is All Over As someone that was…

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Specman: Analyze Your Coverage with Python

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Dimensions to Verifying a USB4 Design

Verification of a USB4 router design is not just about USB4 but also about the inclusion…

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Verification IP , Router , DisplayPort , USB , usb4 , PCIe , USB3 , tunneling

Automotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 2 of 2

If you missed the first part of this series, you can find it here . So: what does…

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security , Automotive , Functional Verification , Green Hills Software

Automotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 1 of 2

Autonomous vehicles are coming. In a statistic from the U.S. Department of Transportation…

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Tales from DAC: A Meeting of Security's Heroes at the Accellera Luncheon (Part 2…

Welcome back to this account of the IP Security Panel at the Accellera Luncheon at…

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Tales from DAC: A Meeting of Security's Heroes at the Accellera Luncheon (Part 1…

Figure 1: The panel and crowd Citizens—the tech world is in trouble. With the ever…

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Master of ‘e’? Now You Can Prove It!

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