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Why LLMs Are the Best Thing to Happen to Chip Design

By Kartik Hegde, Sr. Engineering Group Director We live in a world increasingly…

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featured , chip design , AGI , LLMs

Shift Verification Left: AI Tools for Faster, Smarter Chip Design

Originally written by Hamid Shojaei, Co-Founder of ChipStack and now Distinguished…

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ChipStack , featured , EDA , ChipStack AI Super Agent , AI

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
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Accellera Has Done It Again! Portable Stimulus Standard Available For Review

In a press release this morning, Accellera announced availability of an Early Adopter…

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CDNS , Perspec , Accellera , pss , portable stimulus

A Brief Introduction to Xcelium

Welcome to the XTeam blog! We are a team of bloggers dedicated to showcasing the…

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Low Power , digital mixed signal , Functional Verification , Multi-Core , xcelium , parallel simulation

Have You Fully Verified Your Multi-Core, Cache-Coherent SoC? Find Out How we Can…

You might have thought it would be “just another DAC” this year, again in Austin…

• 3 min read
DAC , SoC verification , Perspec , pss , Accellera PSS

SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier

This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations…

• 2 min read
SoC verification , Perspec , perspec system verifier , Qualcomm , portable stimulus

A Seamless Path to the Portable Stimulus Standard

In our last blog post , we reviewed some of the activities at the recent Design and…

• 3 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

Static Members in e

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining…

• 9 min read
Specman , Incisive , e language , static , xcelium , verification

Specman in Xcelium

Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcelium . Just as Specman…

• 5 min read
IEEE 1647 , funtional verification , Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , Funcional Verification , specman elite , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , verification , IES-XL

Portable Stimulus Shines at DVCon

For me, this week was almost entirely consumed with the Design and Verification Conference…

• 4 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

What Sort of Bugs Does Portable Stimulus Find?

In a recent blog post , we discussed some general concepts of bugs, problems, issues…

• 3 min read
hardware-software co-verification , uvm , Low Power , pswg , debug , Functional Verification , System Design and Verification , embedded software , Emulation , Accellera , Hardware/software co-verification , debugging , portable stimulus , interrupts

Preview of an Exciting DVCon

In the overall world of EDA, the Design Automation Conference ( DAC ) is the biggest…

• 3 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

IEEE Std 1647™ 2016 - e Language - New Standard Publication

Congratulations to the IEEE-1647 e Functional Verification Language Working Group…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , e , e language , specman elite

Bare Metal Tests and Hardware-Software Co-Verification

One interesting question that arises from time to time is whether the Cadence® Perspec…

• 4 min read
hardware-software co-verification , uvm , pswg , Acceleration , Perspec , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , Emulation , System simulation and analysis , Accellera , FPGA prototypes , testbench , portable stimulus , silicon , bare metal , verification

Bugs, Problems, Issues, and Features

There’s no better way to demonstrate the value of a verification tool than to find…

• 3 min read
performance , uvm , pswg , Functional Verification , Perspec , OVM , issue , bug , feature , Accellera , Problem , portable stimulus

Report From the 17th MTV Workshop in Austin

Austin is always a nice place to visit, and last week I spent a few days there to…

• 3 min read
security , Perspec , Safety , formal , workshop , SoC , Test , ISO 26262 , MTV , power , microprocessor , portable stimulus , verification

Perspectives on Developing EDA Standards

Last week, my colleague Paul McLellan published a blog post on the standardization…

• 4 min read
uvm , 1394 , pswg , Perspec , OVM , USB , IEEE 1500 , Accellera , VCX , VCi , PCI , portable stimulus

Bluetooth 5: Making Your Smart Home a Reality

We all know the futuristic vision of the world just around the corner. The vision…

• 3 min read
Verification IP , Bluetooth Low Energy , IoT , VIP , BLE , Tensilica , design , mobile , and Verification IP , Bluetooth 5 , Bluetooth 5.0 , Smart Home

Creating Code from Tables

Some things are best described with tables—each column shows the values for one category…

• 6 min read
Specman , Tables , e , verification

A Personal History of Functional Verification

In my most recent blog post , I summarized some of the key points from an October…

• 4 min read
ASIC , uvm , pswg , formal. Verisity , Functional Verification , System Design and Verification , OVM , System Development Suite , constrained-random , Simulation acceleration , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Virtual Platforms , Hardware/software co-verification , simulation , FPGA , System Design and Verification

Analog Devices Promotes Portable Stimulus at DVClub

If you’re not familiar with the series of DVClub events held in North American, Europe…

• 3 min read
Analog Devices. ADI , pswg , cadence , debug , System Design and Verification , Dave Brownell , software , Accellera , System Design & Verification , portable stimulus , System Design and Verification , verification

Genie in a Mouse Click: Indago Protocol Debug App

Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted…

• 4 min read
Productivity Tool , Verification IP , and Verification IP' , VIP , Indago Protocol Debug App , design , 'Tensilica

DVCon(x2), DVClub(x2): Portable Stimulus Is Everywhere

In my most recent blog post , I talked about the industry vision for portable stimulus…

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horizontal reuse , DAC , uvm , prototyping , pswg , Perspec , System Development Suite , DVClub , Emulation , DVcon , Accellera , portable stimulus , simulation , System Design and Verification

The Industry Vision for Portable Stimulus

As I mentioned in my last blog post , portable stimulus is one of the main areas…

• 3 min read
uvm , pswg , Acceleration , Perspec , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , Emulation , System simulation and analysis , Accellera , FPGA prototypes , testbench , portable stimulus , silicon , verification

A Winning Strategy: Ethernet 10Base-T to Ethernet 400G!

Ethernet was developed in the 1970s and has been a viable communications protocol…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , 802.3bs , 25G Ethernet , VIP , Ethernet standards , IEEE 802.3 , Ethernet , future of IP , CHI VIP , Ethernet 400G

What is ISO 26262 and Why Should I Care?

ISO 26262 is a functional safety standard applied to the development of electrical…

• 3 min read
Automotive , functional safety , cadence , ISO 26262

Back in the Saddle Again

Nearly five years ago, I signed off with my last blog post in the Cadence Community…

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pswg , Perspec , System Design and Verification , System simulation and analysis , Accellera , portable stimulus , System Design and Verification , verification

DisplayPort 8K in Olympics 2020

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

• 3 min read
Verification IP , VIP , DisplayPort , Design and Verification IP , Olympics

Coverage Maximization

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

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

10 New Protocols to Design and Integrate Your SoC in Record Time

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

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