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Believe it or not, sometimes a marketing guy just needs to say less. It's true. It does happen. Sometimes we do just get right to the point. Yeah, we do blather on sometimes but ... oops, there I go again. Just listen to John. He has 10 great reasons to adopt the OVM.

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As clock and data frequencies increase and high-speed systems become ever more densely populated, the distribution of power becomes a major challenge for package power/ground design. To ensure that high-speed systems continue to deliver the required performance at these new signal frequencies, power distribution impedance has to be controlled over a wider range of frequencies. This can be accomplished through careful…

One of the great things about working here at Cadence is having the opportunity to test and preview new features and functionality before public release.  The newly released 9.2 version of Incisive Enterprise Simulator contains a new streamlined signal tracing function in SimVision.

I thought you might like to see a preview demonstrating the new capabilities for tracing signals directly within the source browser, as well as updates…

[For those of you that didn't / can't make it to a ClubT last week/this week, here is a meaty technical article from guest bloggers Matan Vax (R&D Architect), Yuri Tsoglin (R&D), and Dean D'Mello (CoreComp Architect)]

When subtypes let you add properties and behavior to a struct or a unit when one or more enumerated/boolean fields take on specific values. The fields that define when subtypes…

Last week Cadence announced a new product called Incisive Enterprise Verifier (IEV) that combines simulation and formal technologies in unique and interesting ways. I am very excited about IEV for two good reasons. The first is simply that it's the product I've been most involved with during my time at Cadence, so I have a personal stake in its success. The bigger reason is my vision that IEV will be the primary tool…

Last week we announced Incisive Enterprise Verifier (IEV). What is cool about IEV is that it integrates formal analysis and simulation engines in unique ways that provide users with more power. One of the great things about IEV is that it is easy to use and get value quickly. It is all about helping to reduce the overall verification time.

Take a look at the press release, and read Richard Goering's blog …

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Just a quick reminder that the ClubT series starts this week! Here are the specific dates and locations:

• Feldkirchen (Munich area), Germany on this Thursday October 15

• Eindhoven, The Netherlands on this Friday October 16

• Grenoble, France this coming Monday October 19

• Bristol, UK next Wednesday October 21
  
  

As always, these free events feature direct contact with Cadence R&D and Methodology experts to share developments…

I read an interesting article recently on EDN regarding a new way to determine cryptographic keys using leakage power. Differential power has long been documented to be a method of cracking keys. In this paper, the author, Milena Jovanovic of the University of Montenegro demonstrated that leakage power can also be used to predict the key contents.

I can’t pretend to understand the techniques behind cryptography…

Allegro PCB Librarian / Part Developer (PDV) Symbol Property Templates have been a very beneficial feature in the SPB16.2 release.

IEEE standards define a certain set of properties and their attributes for a symbol. Adding these properties individually to each symbol and setting the attributes according to the defined standards is a time-consuming and error-prone task for librarians. The Part Developer SPB16.2 release…

Everytime my wife and I are looking to buy a big item, we do our research by reading blogs, articles, and customer reviews. I have to tell you, the single best source for information is through customer reviews and testimonials by actual users. Testimonials not only included the good stuff, but they also include items that cover 'areas of improvement' in a particular product.

I think the concept is applicable…

The Cadence IC Packaging tools are complex, flexible tools that allow a designer freedom to create a package substrate layout in a myriad of ways. As a result, it becomes possible to run a particular feature at a time when the database is ill-configured to handle the request. Or, a given command could have a bug which results in the corruption of a specific database object in a manner that is not illegal to the database…

A while back, as we were preparing to launch our first phase of multi-core support in the Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator family, we started working on a press release. We decided to include the multi-core support added recently to Incisive Formal Verifier, in which formal engines can run in parallel to deliver assertion results faster. Then Yoon Kim, my neighbor in the next office, mentioned that Conformal Equivalence…

Just like natural languages, non-standard verification languages can fade away.  Sure, ancient Sumerian exists in the Code of Hammurabi, but all modern law is written in living languages.  Similarly, verification environments and VIP still exist in Vera, but a shrinking population understands and uses it.  To preserve the investment, that code base need to be both translated into a standard language like SystemVerilog…

Verification engineers have updated an old adage to discribe their projects:  Verification is both a sprint and a marathon!  We need to optimize everything from single simulation runs to the complete suite of regression tests and every task in between.  Cadence answered that comprehensive call in the Performance Leadership announcement issued September 29th, 2009.

This intrepid blogger thrives in the land of performance and…

Even sooner than the EU ClubTs is CDNLive San Jose 2009, where this year the event is a "hybrid" format of in-person workshops and on-line webinars.  As with past CDNLive's, the agenda spans the entire Cadence product line, subdivided into tracks for the major segments of the design & verification flow.  Of course, Functional Verification and System Design & Verification are major tracks:

http://www…

EU-based Specmaniacs and "Trailblazers" rejoice: the annual ClubT series is back!  As always, these free events feature direct contact with Cadence R&D and Methodology experts to share developments in advanced verification, updates to the "Trailblazer" program, and hear your emerging challenges and concerns.

In fact, we welcome YOU to present at ClubT!  If you have a 30-40 minute presentation on verification…

[Preface: all features in the 9.2 preview series are in Beta now.  We invite you to sign-up for the beta program and give this feature a test drive!]
[Team Specman welcomes Avi Bloch from Specman R&D to introduce one of “his” new features.]

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Starting in Specman/IES-XL 9.2, users will be able to split the profiling process into separate run and analysis phases. This allows users to generate a profiler…