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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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Applying Digital-Centric Verification Methodologies to Analog

A majority (if not all) SoCs today are mixed signal. Increasingly, the analog and…

• 4 min read
AMS , Low Power , Real Value Modeling , Functional Verification , Mixed Signal Verification , Mixed-Signal , metric-driven verification , SoC Connectivity , System Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IP modeling , RVM

There's Another Simulation Failure! New SimVision Features Can Help

Simulation failures are seen quite often in design verification. Fortunately, with…

• 4 min read
uvm , debug , Functional Verification , simvision , Incisive , Silicon Realization

My Reason For Choosing e – a Much More Advanced Verification Language. What’s Your…

I'd like to share with you a story from many, many, many moons ago when I first evaluated…

• 7 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , debug , Functional Verification , e , e language , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP

More on the Benefits of Metric-Driven Formal Analysis and Verification (MDV + ABV…

We interrupt R&D's Vinaya Singh's excellent series on "The Role of Coverage in Formal…

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Alok Jain , ABV , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , vPlan , corner cases , formal , EDA360 , verification planning , Coverage-Driven Verification , Enterprise Manager , intent , Enterprise Planner , Silicon Realization , coverage driven verification (CDV) , MDV , IEV , IFV , Coverage Driven Verification , verification

What Does Silicon Realization Mean for Verification Engineers?

Last May , I posed a question about what EDA360 means for verification engineers…

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performance , uvm , Functional Verification , vPlan , formal , OVM , VIP , EDA360 , Multi-Core , Incisive , Silicon Realization , metric-driven verification , multicore , IEV , simulation , IES , IFV

How Elastic is Your Business?

Facing a verification overrun, you poached resources, clocked overtime, and kept…

• 3 min read
Functional Verification , verification planning , profitability , business , elastic , metric-driven verification , MDV

Infinite Playbook for the Verification Superbowl

Its 4th and long, you're down by six, the clock is running out, and you are wary…

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SystemVerilog , uvm , debug , Functional Verification , OVM , EDA360 , Multi-Core , Incisive , Silicon Realization , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , Accellera VIP TSC , simulation , IES

System Realization Webinars in 2010 -- A Summary

Last year was unprecedented for Cadence. We came up with the EDA360 vision , reorganized…

• 5 min read
High-Level Synthesis , TLM , Fast Models , IP-XACT , Models , system realization , TLM 2.0 , Calypto , TSMC , Magillem , virual platform , virtual protoype , virtual prototype , Jeda , Imperas , Virtual Platforms , CircuitSutra , TLM 2.0-driven design , XtremeEDA , SystemC TLM2 , ESL , CoFluent , System Design and Verification

How I Nearly Had My Own “Subtract Bug” in a CPU Design

In a recent blog post , I talked about learning a public lesson on the importance…

• 3 min read
divide , subtract bug , debug , Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , Cydrome , subtract , add , verification

The Role of Coverage in Formal Verification, Part 1 of 3

As outlined in a prior post , new advances in formal and multi-engine technology…

• 4 min read
ABV , methodology , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , ABVIP , Cadence VIP portfolio , formal , VIP , CDV , SVA , PSL , coverage driven verification (CDV) , assertions , MDV , IEV , IFV

More on the SystemC ARM Linux Boot Loader

My last post described a Linux Loader for ARM Virtual Platforms . Taking a closer…

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virtual platforms , android , boot loader , SystemC , ARM , debugging , linux , kernel

System Industry Trends - 2010 Highlights and What's Coming Up for 2011 (Part II)

2010 was a very dynamic year for the electronic systems industry overall and Cadence…

• 5 min read
High-Level Synthesis , Acceleration , CDNLive!ive! , system realization , C-to-Silcon , Palladium , Calypto , virtual prototype , Simulation acceleration , apps , metric-driven verification , System Design & Verification , C-to-Silicon Compiler , Virtual Platforms , Modeling , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL

UVM - The Progress Continues With Reference Flow

As 2010 ends and 2011 begins, the most important thing that came out of the Universal…

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uvm , Functional Verification , EDA360 , Coverage-Driven Verification , EDA , AMIQ , verification

A Look Back at ARM Techcon 2010: Surprising Keynotes, New Products, and Lego!

The acid test of any conference is how long after the keynotes, panels, and demos…

• 4 min read
A-15 , Industry Insights , Cortex , GPU , IBM , Mali , EDA360 , linaro , blogs , ecosystem , moore's law , EUV litho , Marvell , ARM , Techcon

System Industry Trends - 2010 Highlights and What's Coming Up for 2011 (Part 1)

2010 was a very dynamic year for the electronic systems industry overall, and for…

• 5 min read
High-Level Synthesis , TLM2 , ASIC , TLM-driven design , CDNLive , cadence , Acceleration , C to Silicon , system realization , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silcon , EDA360 , ASIC/ASSP , rtl compiler , Co-verification , metric-driven verification , C-to-Silicon Compiler , Virtual Platforms , Synthesis , high level synthesis , ARM , MDV , ESL , System Design and Verification

Those Corner-Case Conditions Caught You Again!

In my last blog post , I related a story from my engineering past in which I learned…

• 3 min read
sjc , Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , airport

How Do You Debug Your Testbench when it Won’t Stand Still?

The task of debugging a simulation problem in your design can be a difficult and…

• 1 min read
whitepaper , uvm , debug , Functional Verification , bugs , simvision , OVM , Incisive , testbench

On-Demand Webinar: TLM Design and High-Level Synthesis

In case you missed it last week, Mark Warren delivered a very informative webinar…

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TLM , C to Silicon , webinars , RTL , System C , SystemC , System Design and Verification

Corner-Case Conditions Will Get You Every Time

Experienced verification engineers know that most killer bugs lurk deep in the corners…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , dec , Gordon Bell

New Interview with Partner Zocalo on Their Assertion Creation Philosophy and Approach…

Heads-up Team Verify subscribers: on his "Industry Insights" blog Richard Goering…

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DAC , ABV , Zocalo , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , formal , assertions , verification

A SystemC TLM 2.0 ARM Linux Boot Loader

Earlier this year I wrote an article with some details related to loading Linux into…

• 6 min read
TLM2 , virtual platforms , System Design and Verification , TLM 2.0 , embedded software , boot loader , software , SystemC , ARM , linux , System Design and Verification , kernel

“Everything Assertion Based” -- Assertion-Based Verification (ABV) Comes of Age for…

Preface: are you having trouble (re-)igniting interest in formal, muti-engine, and…

• 5 min read
NextOp , ABV , Zocalo , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , VIP , PSL , assertion synthesis , metric-driven verification , coverage driven verification (CDV) , assertions , AMBA , MDV , IEV , IFV

Evolution and Synthesis

If you have not yet seen it, Jim Hogan and Paul McLellan wrote a great piece over…

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High-Level Synthesis , RTL , Hogan , EETimes , SystemC , evolution , HLS , McLellan

Does It Get Any Better than CDNLive! India?

I've just returned from CDNLive! India in Bangalore, fired up with the huge crowd…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , formal , OVM , ISX , MDV , IFV , techtorial , India , verification

“Formal Design” or “Formal Verification”-- What is the Right Label?

Shortly after DAC 2010, Gabe Morretti wrote a couple of interesting blogs (reference…

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DAC , uvm , ABV , CDNLive , Functional Verification , formal , OVM , EDA360 , EDA , SoC , Silicon Realization , SoC Connectivity , connectivity , IFV

Broadcom Presentation Shows Value of Transaction-Based Acceleration

Wow - what a paper! At CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010 , the joint paper from Broadcom…

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CDNLive , Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Palladium , broadcom , Emulation , transaction-based , simulation , verification

Open Mobile Summit -- What‘s Happening in the World of Applications

I attended last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco last week. This is a twice…

• 4 min read
Open Mobile Summit , applications , android , EDA360 , google , apps , superphones , smartphones

System Bring-Up - THE Critical Path in the System Development Process

The electronic industry is moving from hardware-defined products to software-defined…

• 2 min read
prototyping , Bring-up , Acceleration , debug , system realization , Palladium , Emulation , bringup , System Design and Verification , verification
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