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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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• 3 min read
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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DisplayPort 8K in Olympics 2020

If you’re anything like me, you’ve spent the last couple of weeks glued to the TV…

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Verification IP , VIP , DisplayPort , Design and Verification IP , Olympics

Coverage Maximization

Searching for “automatic coverage maximization” results with ~16 million hits. Alas…

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Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , specman elite , verification

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This month we released 10 new Verification IP for leading-edge protocols! Did I say…

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SPI NAND , Verification IP , VIP , MIPI , DisplayPort , USB , DSI , octal spi , Ethernet , Tensilica , design , Type-C , and Verification IP , USB UFS

The Evolution of MIPI DSI

The MIPI DSI specification has come a long way from the days of its early introduction…

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Verification IP , MIPI Alliance , IoT , VIP , MIPI , DSI , Tensilica , design , Internet of Things , and Verification IP

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My docking station with the rat’s nest of wires dangling from behind it could be…

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USB 3.0 , Verification IP , Docking station , Tensilica Design and Verification IP , VIP , DisplayPort , USB , power delivery , USB3.0 , USB 2.0 , Type-C , USB connector , Alternate Mode , USB 3.1

Fine Tuning of Coverage Model Definition

Functional Coverage is one of the main means to measure the quality and progress…

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funtional verification , Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

Why Do We Need a Verification Language?

This month, we celebrate the 20 th anniversary of Specman’s introduction to the public…

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Specman , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , yoav hollander , verification

IP Group @ 53rd DAC – Veni Vidi Vici

Another DAC, and this year someone put a jalapeno in my margarita at the Denali Party…

• 2 min read
DAC , Verification IP , IP , DDR4 , LPDDR4 , SerDes

How to Find Where Declared e Entities Are Used

The e Reflection API allows you to perform various queries on entities in your own…

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IEEE 1647 , funtional verification , Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , Funcional Verification , specman elite , IES

How to Maximize Your Verification Experience at DAC 2016

Next week will mark the annual EDA gathering in Austin. For me it is my 20th DAC…

• 13 min read
dac2016 , DAC , Verification Computing Platform , Protium , Palladium , Prtable Stimulus

Simulation Acceleration—Maximizing Simulator Performance

"Simulation Acceleration” or “Accelerated Verification” are terms commonly used to…

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Specman , Functional Verification , e , specman elite , verification

Building Efficient Scoreboards

A “scoreboard” is a verification component that checks the data sent to the DUT against…

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RTL Signoff vs. Functional Signoff

The notion of signoff has many layers to it, both in terms of complexity but also…

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funtional verification , IMC , metric driven verification (MDV) , functional coverage , MDV , vManager

Modelling a Value Holder Template with the Value “new-ed” by Default

In many companies, there is a well-defined flow for handling monitored data items…

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IEEE 1647 , Specman , tech tips , e , e language , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP , verification

How to Handle a Binding Catastrophe

Are you busy debugging your environment topology and coming up against components…

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Specman , TLM , binding

e Templates – Cool Tool, Now Even Cooler

One of the reasons why verification engineers love e is the power it gives them as…

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UVM-ML OA: Now Within Incisive Platform As Well!

Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you…

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Specman , UVM-ML OA , Incisive , multi-language

Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this…

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methodology , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , vPlan , Incisive , Plan and metrics management , vManager

Using Tables to Handle Configurability in Incisive Enterprise Specman

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IntelliGen , configurable designs , Specman , tech tips , Funcional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Specman

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IMC , coverage , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Incisive , metric-driven verification , MDV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Is There Market Appetite for PCIe 4.0? A View from Tokyo and Taipei

Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan…

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PCIe Gen4 , VIP , PCIe , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

MIPI CSI-2—What's Cooking with the Most Popular Mobile Camera Interface?

The MIPI CSI-2 (Camera Serial Interface) specification is celebrating its tenth birthday…

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Verification IP , MIPI Alliance , IoT , VIP , MIPI , CSI

Incisive vManager Free Video Training

The Incisive vManager tool for professional verification planning and management…

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Functional Verification , Cadence Online Support , Incisive , training , vManager

Accelerating the Next Big Shift in Verification

Today Cadence announced that we are aligning our proposal to the Accellera Portable…

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pswg , scenario , UML , software-driven verification , Accellera

Double-Take: Improving Validation Test Suite with System-Level, Coverage-Driven …

Application Spotlight When Freescale wanted to measure the coverage of their validation…

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validation test suite , Freescale , Coverage-Driven Verification , Palladium XP , verification

Make Your Debugging Faster by Recording Your Simulator

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Use Model Versatility Is Key for Emulation Returns on Investment

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ROI , use models , Emulation , DAC 2015 , System Design and Verification
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