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Good news for Specmaniacs based in the EU: next week from May 18-20 is the annual CDNLive! event in Munich.  An overview of the conference with info on how to register is here: http://www.cadence.com/cdnlive/eu/2009/pages/default.aspx

Naturally CDNLive Munich will cover all aspects of Cadence's technologies and methodologies, and verification gurus like fellow bloggers Mike Stellfox and Tom Anderson will be attendance…

Specmaniacs everywhere should be aware of a great, full-featured integrated development environment (IDE) available for e language coding from long time Verification Alliance partner AMIQ.  In today's post, Team Specman invites the founder of AMIQ, Cristian Amitroaie, to tell us about this tool, and how it's different from the many other editor choices out there. 
(FYI: AMIQ will also be showing DVT at the CDNLive…

In the lab, no one can hear you scream!

When I was getting my BSEE in the 1980s and studying analog and communications, my friends would say, “Why are you studying that old dinosaur, digital is where it’s at!”.  Well, far from being consigned to the La Brea tar pit, analog is once again on the upswing as companies seek ways to differentiate themselves in the marketplace. Over the last several…

The EDA Industry is the unsung hero behind for modern era electronic revolution since early 80s and gets the spotlight it deserves in the recent DAC newsletter.

I would like to applaud the author Geoffrey James, for crediting the EDA industry in rising to the challenges associated with each and every technology process node, in particular advancing the use of multi-core architectures. The EDA industry continues…

Over the last three years, customers have been able to leverage the Cadence Low-Power Solution to tapeout their most complex designs. SiRF is no exception. However, in the case of SiRF, another secret weapon was used that made things even easier and cut design time significantly – SiRF leveraged the expertise of the Cadence VCAD Services team. “I believe we could not have met our aggressive schedule or power targets…

The emergence of sub-micron technologies has enabled today’s designers to include various digital/analog/RF components in a single chip. The complexity of validating such designs has highlighted the necessity for a robust validation methodology and for an appropriate process for running efficient simulations. At CDNLive! 2008, we introduced will an innovative, efficient and accurate verification flow using Cadence…

For this post welcome guest blogger Hilmar van der Kooij. Hilmar is a Cadence Application Engineer for our Metric Driven Verification solutions. He has expertise in applying Metric Driven Verification both in simulation as well as formal analysis. Himar is based in beautiful Stockholm, Sweden. Besides living the Jetset Verification Lifestyle, he enjoys playing around with an old-fashioned film photocamera.

Thanks Hilmar for…

Accurate phase-noise characterization is critical in the design of RF and microwave communication systems. SpectreRF’s shooting PSS/Pnoise analysis has been the golden simulator for the phase-noise simulation, and close correlation between the simulation...

With SPB16.2 release, Capture-CIS allows you to create and use relational tables in the parts database. These tables have a one-to-many relationship with part information (primary) tables. For example, the database may contain a Vendor table with multiple vendor / manufacture part numbers for one company part number in your Resistor table. This structure allows you to query for data across the primary and relational tables…

It was a delight when I read the blog by Bill Schweber of TechOnline's RF DesignLine titled “Getting some basic RF experience”. I was surprising pleased that somebody took the time to talk about how one might get the feel for RF. That is because what Bob talks about is more or less how I gained some of the experience that lead me to pursue this decades later.

I have always been fascinated by radio…

In this last segment of the series on performance-aware coding, allow me to share with you two tips on improving the performance of Temporals.

Temporals Performance Tip 1: Setup a "Synch Unit"
If you don't already use a synch unit - I recommend you setup one up now. Here's why: the synch unit contains ports connected to the device under test, and it defines events based on these ports. Thus, when working…

If you are an RFIC designer then I hope you are planning on attending the 2009 RFIC Symposium and the International Microwave Symposium (IMS) which will be held in Boston, Massachusetts, as the centerpieces of Microwave Week 2009, scheduled from Sunday...

If your only news source were some of the common EDA pundits, you would likely believe that VoltageStorm is all but dead, and that Apache was the only game in town, but that is very far from the truth. So what has happened to VoltageStorm since Cadence acquired Simplex back in 2003? The easy answer is “a lot”.

If you have read my bio, I came to Cadence from Simplex and so power integrity analysis is close…

Step into any Starbucks hotspot or Wi-Fi cafe, and you'll see something that was unthought of just 10 years ago: people working on laptops, accessing wireless internet at broadband speeds. I don't know about you, but to me, that is simply amazing. Imagine, 10 years ago we would have been content with surfing the internet at 56k dialup speeds. Now, we've come to expect consistently fast broadband speeds. If a website takes…

FAQs: What happened to the "SVM" documentation, and to SVM in general? Has SVM been absorbed into OVM, or what?

Answer 1:
The good news is that the "System Verification Methodology", or "SVM" for short, is alive and well. First, its documentation and examples have been always been part of the Cadence® Incisive® Plan-to-Closure Methodology since "IPCM" was released in December 2006. Fast forward to the…

I decided to switch gears a bit and write about an interesting article I read in Electronic Engineering Times (April 6, 2009) - "Social networking: Boomer adoption Up, Gen Y Flat" by Junko Yoshida. 

What I found fascinating is that us "old time" Baby Boomers are increasing the volume of blogs we read, social networking, and podcasts we listen to by 67%. Our counterpart Gen Y'ers (while having a larger…

It has been a while since I last appended, hope you are well!

It was a little bit difficult to come up with a subject to write about and then recently I was in a meeting where we were talking about transient noise analysis. A designer was discussing...