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  • fschirrmeister
    Verification Reflections on 2018
    By fschirrmeister | 20 Dec 2018
    In my predictions for 2018 I had identified five key trends driving verification in 2018 – Security, Safety, Application Specificity, Processor Ecosystems and System Design Enablement, all centered around ecosystems. Looking back now as the yea...
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    security | functional safety | verification
  • Steve Brown
    Willamette HDL and Cadence Develop the Industry's First PSS Training Course for Perspec System Verifier
    By Steve Brown | 30 Nov 2018
    Cadence continues to be a leader in SoC verification and has expanded our industry investment in Accellera portable stimulus language standardization. Some customers have expressed reservations that portable stimulus requires the effort of learn...
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    whdl | Perspec | perspec system verifier | willamette hdl | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus | Accellera PSS
  • Steve Brown
    Integration and Verification of PCIe Gen4 Root Complex IP into an Arm-Based Server SoC Application
    By Steve Brown | 16 Aug 2018
    Learn about the challenges and solutions for integrating and verification PCIe(r) Gen4 into an Arm-Based Server SoC. Listen to this relatively short webinar by Arm and Cadence, as they describe the collaboration and results, including methodology and...
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  • Steve Brown
    Perspec Portable Stimulus Hands-On Workshop at DAC 2018
    By Steve Brown | 20 Jul 2018
    Cadence pulled a fast one at DAC 2018, almost like a bait and switch. We advertised a hands-on workshop to learn about Accellera Portable Stimulus Specification (PSS) v1.0. But we made participants compete head to head, for prizes, and their pride! T...
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    Perspec | AMIQ | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    AMIQ and Cadence demonstrate Accellera PSS v1.0 interoperability
    By Steve Brown | 11 Jul 2018
    There’s nothing like the heat of a DAC demo to stress new technology and the engineers behind it! Such was the case at DAC 2018 at the new locale of Moscone Center West, San Francisco. Cadence and AMIQ were two of several vendors who announced ...
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    Perspec | perspec system verifier | AMIQ | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    What’s Hot in Verification at this Year’s CDNLive? It’s Portable Stimulus Again!
    By Steve Brown | 27 Mar 2018
    CDNLive is a user conference, and verification is one of the largest categories of content with multiple tracks covering multiple days. Portable stimulus is one of the hottest new areas in verification, and continues to be popular in all venues. At l...
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    CDNLive | Perspec | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Preparing Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Ratification
    By Steve Brown | 13 Mar 2018
    The Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group met at the DVCon 2018 to move the process forward towards ratification. While we can't predict exactly when it will be ratified, the goal is now more clearly in sight! Cadence booth was busy with a lo...
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    pswg | Perspec | perspec system verifier | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Cadence Collaborates with Test & Verification Solutions on Portable Stimulus
    By Steve Brown | 18 Jan 2018
    The Cadence® Connections® Verification Program brings together a worldwide network of services, training, and IP development experts that support Cadence verification solutions. The program members help customer accelerate the adoption of new...
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    CDNLive | Test | DVcon | pss | verification
  • Steve Brown
    Portable Stimulus User Gives Perspec PSS Technology Nearly Perfect Review
    By Steve Brown | 8 Jan 2018
    It’s always good to hear what real users think of products. Here is a very detailed review (~4000 words) by an Anonymous user, nick named Ant-Man (from the movie). Overall it’s a very strong endorsement of Perspec, and summarize...
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  • Steve Brown
    Perspec System Verifier is #1 in Portable Stimulus in 2017 User Survey
    By Steve Brown | 1 Dec 2017
    It’s now official: Perspec System Verifier is rated the #1 product in the #1 category of Portable Stimulus, according to the 2017 EDA User Survey published on Deepchip.com . There were 33 user responses in favor of Perspec as the #1 tool, and dr...
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  • Steve Brown
    Mediatek Deploys Perspec for SoC Verification of Low Power Management (part 3 of 3)
    By Steve Brown | 16 Oct 2017
    Here we conclude the blog series and highlight the results of Mediatek 's use of Cadence Perspec™ System Verifier for their SoC level verification. In case you missed it, Part 1 of the blog is here , and Part 2 of the blog is here . One of their...
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    uvm | Perspec | coherent | perspec system verifier | coherency library | coherency | Accellera | mediatek | ARM | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Celebrating Five Years of Performance-Optimized Arm-Based SoCs: Now including AMBA5
    By Steve Brown | 12 Oct 2017
    It’s been quite a long 5-year journey building and deploying Performance Analysis, Verification, and Debug capabilities for Arm-based SoCs. We worked with some of the smartest engineers on the planet. First with the engineers at Arm, with whom we...
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    TAGS:
    iwb | interconnect | amba5 | Interconnect Workbench | Palladium | Performance Analysis | AMBA | CoreLink | xcelium | ARM
  • Steve Brown
    When Arm meets Intel – Overcoming the Challenges of Merging Architectures on an SoC to Enable Machine Learning
    By Steve Brown | 29 Sep 2017
    As the stakes for winning server segment market share grow ever higher an increasing number of companies are seeking to grasp the latest Holy Grail of multi-chip coherence. The approach promises to better enable applications such as machine learning,...
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    SoC verification | perspec system verifier | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • XTeam
    Making it Easier to Apply Palladium Z1 to SoC Performance Analysis
    By XTeam | 23 Sep 2017
    Recently, Renesas combined the Cadence® Interconnect Workbench, the Cadence vManager™ Metric-Driven Signoff Platform, and the Cadence Palladium® Z1 Enterprise Emulation Platform to improve their performance validation flow. They were looking for a better...
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    Interconnect Workbench | customer feedback | success story | Palladium | Renesas
  • fschirrmeister
    How to Get to a Trillion Devices in the Internet of Things in 2035
    By fschirrmeister | 12 Sep 2017
    Next month at Arm TechCon, one of the key discussion topics with be the internet of things (IoT), especially after Masayoshi Son, Arm's "parent" Softbank’s CEO, took the stage last year and boldly predicted that “more important, in...
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    TAGS:
    prototyping | cadence | palladium z1 | IoT | Socrates | Emulation | Internet of Things | ARM | protium s1 | verification
  • Steve Brown
    How To Create L3 Cache Command Overflow Stress Test in Less Than 2 Days
    By Steve Brown | 5 Sep 2017
    One category of difficult SoC tests to create are stress tests, to validate the limits of SoC functionality and its behavior in this scenario. It’s usually not overloading a data input port that is challenging; something that can be accomplished with...
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    SoC verification | perspec system verifier | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Do You Have The Tools You Need To Verify Your ARM Multi-core, Coherent SoC?
    By Steve Brown | 21 Aug 2017
    Multi-core, coherent SoCs are very complex and verifying their behavior requires a system level perspective that is not easily acquired. As more devices incorporate the coherent multi-core architecture out of competitive necessity, organizations are grappling...
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    SoC verification | perspec system verifier | Accellera | ARM | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Low Power SoC Verification
    By Steve Brown | 4 Aug 2017
    The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest, and generating a host of questions. In this blog Sharon Rosenberg details the modeling of state machines using the PSS in order to perform low power SoC verification...
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    Low Power | SoC verification | perspec system verifier | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Mediatek Deploys Perspec for SoC Verification of Low Power Management (part 2 of 3)
    By Steve Brown | 13 Jul 2017
    Here we go through the application of Cadence Perspec™ System Verifier by Mediatek for their SoC level verification. In case you missed it, Part 1 of 3 can be found here . As shown in Figure 5 , the tests are generated automatically from the model...
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    uvm | Perspec | coherent | perspec system verifier | coherency library | coherency | Accellera | mediatek | ARM | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Mediatek Deploys Perspec for SoC Verification of Low Power Management
    By Steve Brown | 12 Jul 2017
    Mediatek has been using the Cadence Perspec™ System Verifier for their SoC level verification. At a recent CDNLive , Mediatek reported on their experience with Perspec and the results from their first phase of deployment. Their primary goal in adopting...
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    uvm | Perspec | coherent | perspec system verifier | coherency library | coherency | Accellera | mediatek | ARM | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    See Perspec Running Accellera Portable Stimulus Examples Here and Now!
    By Steve Brown | 15 Jun 2017
    Accellera has announced the release of an Early Adopter specification of the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) for public review. First introduced in detail at DVCON 2017, it will be the subject of a tutorial at DAC 2017 . We receive many questions about...
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    SoC verification | perspec system verifier | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Accellera Has Done It Again! Portable Stimulus Standard Available For Review
    By Steve Brown | 15 Jun 2017
    In a press release this morning, Accellera announced availability of an Early Adopter specification of the Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) for public review, just in time for DAC 2017 in Austin! Public review of the PSS specification will end September...
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    CDNS | Perspec | Accellera | pss | portable stimulus
  • Steve Brown
    Have You Fully Verified Your Multi-Core, Cache-Coherent SoC? Find Out How we Can Help @ DAC!
    By Steve Brown | 24 May 2017
    You might have thought it would be “just another DAC” this year, again in Austin, where the food and live entertainment is undeniably superb. But wait, there’s help for improving verification of your cache coherent multi-core SoC, one of the biggest challenges...
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    DAC | SoC verification | Perspec | pss | Accellera PSS
  • Steve Brown
    SoC Verification with Portable Stimulus Using Perspec System Verifier
    By Steve Brown | 23 Apr 2017
    This year’s CDNLive San Jose was another gem. Many great keynotes, customer presentations, and technical updates. There were several mentions of Machine Learning, both in general about the emergence of Artificial Intelligence in the world, and specifically...
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    SoC verification | Perspec | perspec system verifier | Qualcomm | portable stimulus
  • tomacadence
    A Seamless Path to the Portable Stimulus Standard
    By tomacadence | 23 Mar 2017
    In our last blog post , we reviewed some of the activities at the recent Design and Verification Conference and Exhibition ( DVCon ) in San Jose. Portable stimulus was clearly one of the hot topics at the event, with a tightly packed room for the "Creating...
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    TAGS:
    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
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