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My good friend and fellow blogger - Bob Dwyer - recently posted on the new Cadence Online Support.

Bob did a terrific job and I encourage you to read his post -  Find, Fix And Learn With Cadence Online Support

Bob's provided screenshots, highlights, and suggested tips for navigating in the system!

The new Cadence Online Support was released in a Beta mode on 10/26/09.This Beta technique has been used by several companies…

Team Specman guesstimates that a majority of users have migrated to "IntelliGen" -- the all new, Aspect-Oriented generation engine inside of Specman and IES-XL, and/or they are in the process of adopting IntelliGen now. However, in case your CAD configuration is just becoming unfrozen after a long project, or you just want to quickly train new users on this powerful technology, we are excited to announce there is a…

2009 is the tenth year that I've spent at least a portion of my time responsible for formal analysis products. As per my profile, my two most recent employers before Cadence were 0-In (now part of Mentor) and Synopsys. Between these jobs I consulted for eight other EDA companies, four of which offered formal products.

You would think that I've learned a few things during the past decade, and I believe that I…

Specmaniacs Based In Israel,

Please join us for a day of in-depth presentations and demonstrations of the latest methodologies and technologies for advanced verification this 17 November at the Dan Accadia Hotel in Herzelia.

Specman users and Cadence R&D experts will deliver presentations and demos, as per the following agenda:

08:30-09:00 Registration

09:00-09:15 Welcome and Introduction

09:15-10:30 MDV flow & soluti…

We recently rolled out a new online support mechanism that replaces Sourcelink called Cadence Online Support.  Point your web browser to sourcelink.cadence.com and you'll notice that it redirects to support.cadence.com. 

Improving the search capabilities was one of the major focuses of Cadence Online Support.  A single box enables searching across the following areas:

• Troubleshooting
• Product Manuals
• New or Changed Fe…

Remember those letters, we'll get back to them in a bit...

First a couple of FAQ's about axes in ViVA. 

How can I tell which axis a signal is associated to?

Well, this isn't the easiest thing in the…

Today, Cadence recognized it's OVM team for their innovative contribution to the Cadence enterprise starting in 2008.  Why enterprise?  To me, enterprise is the most exciting part because it underscore how the OVM has rallied all of Cadence verification around a common cause which has both polished our image as the verification leader and created new business opportunities.

To understand the impact, we need to step back…

Today myself and the whole Trailblazer team are proud to celebrate the success of my colleagues' winning awards on Cadence's "Innovation Day".  In specific reference to the verification segment winners, over the past year I've had a front row seat to their struggles.  They will be too modest to admit this, but let me tell you there were times when it was really dark for them. 

One of the very cool things about my job is that I get to see all kinds of new stuff early. I’m privileged to be involved in technology roll outs, and so get to be involved in early discussions with R&D, Product Engineering, and Marketing. And, I gotta tell you, there is very cool stuff coming out.

As I think we’ve established, I’m a geek. (And there’s my daughter again, rolling her eyes, and saying…

I'm switching gears this week from my regular SPB technical product posts to focus on an annual Cadence event - Cadence Innovation Day.

Today Cadence will honor the 2008 recipients of the Excellence in Innovation Awards. This year, 35 winners will be celebrated amongst their peers from all geographies and organizations - 13 of this year's recipients are from locations outside San Jose.

Adam Sherer is one of this…

On Tuesday this week we are celebrating "Innovation Day" here at Cadence, honoring inventive engineers across the company. 

I must admit that most of the time I get so bogged down with the latest customer questions or figuring out how to help people learn about the latest features that I forget about all those folks in R&D whose raison d'etre is to come up with new and better ways of doing things.  And…

Your kids may be going house to house for treats, but you can get a big OVM sugar rush from Cadence's OVM World contributions.  Each delectible nugget is wrapped in documentation that helps you savor all the goodness. So reach into the bowl and indulge in these methodology sweets!

Callback Mechanism

From day 1 the OVM has employed a factory mechanism for both simple reuse and multi-language consistancy.  While factories…

Is it their raw power?  Is it the cheerleaders?  Why are verification engineers like football players?  It's because they know how to squeeze the maximum performance out of their resources to win the verification game. Charlie Dawson, Senior Engineering Manager at Cadence, has been leading teams that build performance into our products for years and has taken some time to put the whole game in perspective.  Read more…

Here's a simple but useful tip that shows how to write to the log file using the Encounter command "Puts"...

In TCL, the "puts" command is use to write information to the console -or- to a file.  For example:

encounter 63> puts "hi"
hi

-or-

encounter 64> set outfile [open test "w"]
file18
encounter 65> puts $outfile "hi"
encounter 66> close $outfile
encounter…

Color assignment in Allegro PCB Editor has been accomplished with either a class/subclass color assignment or a color assignment done with the highlight command. With designs becoming more complex, it's desirable to be able to assign colors, including custom colors to independent objects.

Database elements may be displayed using either the class/subclass color or a single color assigned to an element, also known…

Specmaniacs rejoice: long time Verification Alliance partner AMIQ has just added OVM e compliance checking to their "DVT" integrated development environment (IDE). Here is a 4 minute video demo with the highlights of this new capability:

To get the full scope of the DVT tool and AMIQ as a company, recall the 5 minute general demo of the tool in an earlier post,…

Cadence and Mentor have dedicated teams to the development and support of the OVM and you, our user community, have literally tens of thousands of developers dedicated to developing reusable VIP with it.  But where do “you” and the OVM meet?

Sometimes the “you” is obvious – the OVM World Forum.  With 1100+ unique threads and 4500+ posts, the OVM Forum is by far the most active testbench and…

Sorry I've been missing from this space for so long.  I've been busily working on a number of projects to try to help get the word out about all the features I have been (and will be) blogging about.  I've also been becoming an expert on making video demos, some of which I'll try to feature here too.  Ask your Cadence rep about the new VSE L/XL and ADE XL/GXL interactive Quick Start Guides.  (If they don't…

These tips are applicable to the Encounter Digital Implementation System.

Back in the good old days, I remember asking designers at the beginning of a silicon virtual prototyping evaluation "Where is your timing constraints file?"  Note the singular form of the word file- was it really that simple?  Didn't seem so easy at the time.  While the complexity of timing constraints in terms of their content has increased…