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IES-XL is comprised of IUS, Incisive Verification Kits with Methodology, Specman, and Enterprise Manager in Desktop Mode.

One of very common query from Incisive Simulator users is the need to view the help of all the IES-XL components together, in a same help browser. The good news is that it is very simple to achieve !!! So, I thought of sharing it here.

Viewing the combined help for IES-XL product: As long as…

[Welecome back the Tech Pubs team as guest bloggers]

Sometimes you just need a little help -- fast.  Like right now; or even yesterday.  Here is the UNIX command to get you the online help you need for Specman and Incisive Enterprise Simulator XL (IES-XL) ASAP:

% product-install-dir/tools/cdnshelp/bin/cdnshelp &

If the "tools" directory is in your path, you can also simply enter the command cdnshelp.  However,…

There is a continuous debate about FPGA prototyping vs. emulation. This debate is heating-up with the latest Synopsys acquisitions of FPGA prototyping tools: Synplicity and Chip-It. This debate sometimes reminds me the endless debate between ASIC and FPGA companies. The reality is that there is a market for both. The FPGA prototyping segment addresses mostly validation of smaller designs or a single IP while emulation…

[Please join Team Specman in welcoming the first guest blogger from our user base: Ms. Kaberi Banerjee, a senior design & verification engineer based in Silicon Valley California]

Fellow Specmaniacs (or should I say "specmites" – in alignment with the subject of bugs!), I recently had a very pleasant encounter with the all powerful Specman “when” sub-typing that I would like to share with you. (When subtyping is one…

Part 2 - I/O TIMING: Talking Outside The Box

It wouldn't be a chip or block if it didn't have to talk to something other than itself right?  We could always assume that every input arrives at exactly the same time, and every output has exactly the same amount of external delay.  The downside is you may never realize some of the more complex aspects of the I/O timing without digging a little further. Last time we…

With the SPB16.2 release, a few new FPGA enhancements have been added.

Over here at Cadence we were pondering the same question and started by estimating the world wide verification…

DVCon 2009 promises much news about System level design and verification. With Open SystemC Initiative (OSCI) events such as the SystemC Users Group, and a TLM2 Modeling and Interoperability Tutorial, there's much to learn and contribute at the event.

Cadence will have a booth and one of the demos is titled:

"Virtual Prototyping with Metric Driven Verification and SystemC TLM2"

It will be available from 2-4pm…

This approach not only avoids an expensive library characterization, which only provides estimates of the component delays, but also has the advantage…

Little did I know that when I accepted an innocent looking meeting propsal from my colleagues on the Blog Team I was destined to be the recipient of the quarterly Cadence blogger award today! 

The scene: this "meeting" turned out to have more attendees than I expected, where my colleagues on the blog team arrived with a whole cast of characters behind them -- my management, our internal Communications specialist, and the…

Welcome to Part 4 of the "Exploring the Virtual Platform" series. For readers just joining please refer to Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the series to get up to speed (hopefully soon before it becomes too difficult for me to provide links to every previous topic and too difficult for you to catch up).

We will continue to look at the embedded software aspects of the ARM Integrator Virtual Platform. So far we looked…

Joe Hupcey posted some photos from the DesignCon show in Santa Clara last week, and I'm finally finding a few minutes to comment on the event. I have a soft spot in my heart for this conference; I think that I've presented something in some form at every show but one since it was called Design SuperCon way back in the mid-90s. I agree with Joe that this is not a major conference for advanced verification folks, but I…

As at most companies these days, Cadence is doing what it can to minimize travel expenses wherever possible.  Consequently, whereas my business trips used to always involve an airplane in some way, these days myself and my colleagues fan out by car from our repective offices to visit customers.  Hence, this week I'm on the road -- literally -- driving behind the wheel of my own vehicle to call on a long time…

Nope - I'm not talking about automobile transmissions ...

I'll continue my series on the SPB16.2 new product features in the coming weeks.

I wanted to take a brief break and talk about, or more importantly learn from you, some of the basic techniques you use in constructing PCB library components. While this may appear to be a simple exercise in building parts for design entry, there are many facets to EDA libr…

[Team Specman welcomes the Technical Publications Team to our blog]

Effectively documenting feature rich, constantly evolving products like Specman, Incisive Enterprise Simulator XL (IES-XL), and Enterprise Manager is a challenge to say the least.  This gives rise to a corresponding challenge for end users: finding the info they need as quickly and easily as possible.  To help address both these issues, we on the "Tech Pubs…

John Pierce, Product Marketing Director for Virtuoso Simulation application gives us some words of wisdom when it comes to getting the most from your simulation investment in 2009.

• Spectre ‘Turbo’ Technology,  MMSIM 7.0, provides 5-10x Performance SPICE was announced in April 2008.
• SpectreRF ‘Turbo’ Technology,

Have you found yourself frustrated at the lack of some decent timing constraints?  Perhaps made critical floorplanning and placement decisions only to have them thrown out because someone forgot to mention a tiny detail in the constraints? Often times, the role of timing constraints is marginalized until it's just too late.  

Instead of assuming the constraints are correct, and getting rid of the attitude "That's not…