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As noted in white papers, prior posts, and the Specman documentation, since IntelliGen is a totally new stimulus generator than the original "PGEN", there is usually some amount of effort needed to migrate an existing verification environment to fully leverage the power of IntelliGen.  To help expedite this process, I've just posted in the Community's Shared Code area a simple utility that allows you to…

When I was growing up, my mother would usually bake a ham for Christmas dinner.  She would always cut a slice off the side before putting it in the pan to cook.  One day I asked her why she did this and she replied that her mother always did it that way.  Now, I've never been the type of person who easily goes along with the "because we've always done it that way" kind of answer, so I asked my grandmother the same question…

As a Marketing Communications professional, I am always looking for creative ways to communicate with our current and potential customers. Over the last 13 years that I have been in this profession, I have seen many methods and vehicles used by Cadence and various other companies to reach out to external and internal audiences. I must say that some of the things I have seen have been pretty creative and unique. Last year…

Allow me to make a brief digression from EDA technology blogging to give you all a peak at what goes on inside of Cadence.  Specifically, last Thursday May 21 here at the Cadence San Jose campus we had a welcome break in our daily routines for a good cause -- the annual "Stars & Strikes" charity festival.  Let me explain: each year, Cadence offices around the world adopt a single, local charity to be the focus…

Imagine Team Specman's surprise when we came across this article on Slashdot about "the new E text editor":
http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/03/24/172202

This was the first we've heard of this product, and we're curious to find out how the author came up with the name "E".  Anyone, anyone ....?

Regardless, since Cadence in general, and Specman and Incisive Enterprise Simulator-XL

Have you ever found yourself working with a massive schematic having to constantly zoom and pan around to find the block you're looking for (since they all look alike from high altitude)?  Then you descend into the block only to find that the sub-block you really wanted is somewhere else?  Well, pop back up and start over again...

Have you ever run a simulation which finds a problem with transistor I44.I23.I0.I25.NM2?  Again…

CDNLive! in Munich had it all - stimulating customer papers, demonstrations of new Cadence solutions, lots of lively technical interaction, even dancers in the exhibition hall and a funk band at the evening party. Given customer travel restrictions, there were fewer attendees from the more distant areas of Europe, but many sessions were packed and the common areas were busy. I attended most of the sessions in the Functional…

[Team Specman welcomes guest blogger Vitaly Lagoon, an Architect in the Generation Technology R&D group]

Consider the case where you have a generatable variable "x" taking random values from [0..99], i.e. all values are declared equal from the generation point of view.  However, imagine that from a verification perspective you are most interested in checking the extreme cases x==0 and x==99, as well…

Back on March 19 here in Silicon Valley, verification guru Brian Bailey gave a great talk at DVClub entitled "Is it time to declare verification war?". Brian had some interesting insights as usual, prompting me to start to write a blog post about it. However, some business and personal events intervened, and in the interim Brian scheduled an encore performance of his talk at the Boston area DVClub meeting this…

Do you remember the first time you used a browser with tabs?  All of a sudden, there you were...surfing two, three, four websites at once in the same window.  Yee-haw!  Life is good.  Well, now you can do the same thing in Virtuoso.  Okay, so you can't put YouTube in one tab and your schematic in another (yet), but you can easily have multiple tabs with schematics, layouts, symbols, etc. all in the same window. 

No more minimizing…

Cadence has been a leader in silicon-package and package-board co-design for over a decade now. Today, Cadence introduced a new and innovative solution for FPGA-PCB Co-design.

The FPGA-PCB co-design solution includes proven technology from Taray Inc for optimized, correct-by-construction FPGA I/O pin assignment synthesis that takes into account the placement and routing of the FPGAs.

What is unique about…

For those of you who can't make it to the CDNLive Munich Designer Expo this week, and/or as promised in the recent interview with AMIQ about their new "DVT" Integrated Development Environment, here is a 5 minute demo introducting DVT's e language-specific features.  Enjoy!

If video fails to launch click here.

You can also learn more about DVT by exploring www.dvteclipse.com where you'll…

A while back, I posted a blog called Getting Started with dbGet. It was a brief introduction to this database access mechanism. Well, dbGet is only half the story - there is also a command called dbSet, which can give you even more power in your scripting or manipulating of the design database.

It works in much the same way as dbGet. As a quick review, let's say we wanted to find out the placement status of the instances…

Given the small nature of the EDA industry, I have read with some interest company announcements regarding "Primary" or "Key" EDA partnership status. In reading the content, it became clear to me that the wording was meant to obfuscate some important facts, particularly in the area of analog design which I work in. One might read those press releases and *think* that the quoted customer used only one EDA vendor's software…

As our loyal readers know, we on Team Specman works hard to include code examples inside of our posts whenever possible.  However, sometimes the amount of code we want to share with you can exceed the scope of a browser window and/or RSS reader pane. Consequently, we are going to start to leverage some popular verification sites when the need arises to share longer blocks of e code or related utilities in Perl, C, etc…