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Is e Old? Yes. Is it Outdated? Definitely Not!
I was at the Design Automation Conference (DAC) last week showcasing our latest, greatest Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) performance features in the demo suites. In my "off" time, I was in our...
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Photo Essay and Comments on DAC 2011 in San Diego, CA
In addition to the annotated image gallery (click here or on the image), below are some long form comments on particular aspects of this year's Design Automation Conference (DAC).Cloud computing - the...
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Video: Formal Verification Service Provider Oski Technology at DAC 2011
At DAC 2011, both myself and fellow Team Verify member Tom Anderson felt a distinct increase in the level of interest in Formal and assertion-based verification (ref. my DAC report, and Tom's). We...
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Video: Update on AMIQ’s DVT IDE at DAC 2011 – Specman Debugger Integration,...
Specmaniacs and IES-XL users around the world know that Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and verification services provider AMIQ has been in the vanguard of supporting eRM, OVM, and now the...
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles: European Seminar Series
A couple of blog posts ago, I talked about the worldwide functional verification seminar series that we've been delivering this year. This has been a successful endeavor by almost any metric, but since...
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Video: DAC 2011 Update From NextOp CEO Yunshan Zhu
At DAC 2011 I had the opportunity to reconnect with Yunshan Zhu, the CEO of NextOp Software. After a quick update on their flagship product (BugScope 3.0), Yunshan shares his observations on how...
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Video: Duolog at DAC 2011 Update – Automating Design and Verification IP...
One of the key tenants of the EDA360 vision is the need for scalable, correct-by-construction IP creation and integration of design and verification IP. Duolog is in the vanguard of creating...
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Full Sequence Coverage in a Single Line of e Code?
I was asked recently about how to easily collect coverage on the sequences generated by the verification environment. Since this question has come up before, I thought I would take this opportunity to...
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Before DAC, There Was Club Formal – An Event Series Completely Focused on...
To complement our support of DAC, CDNLive, and other large scale events, where the program touches on holistic approaches to whole levels of design and verification realization, Team Verify is also...
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Video: Distinguished Engineer Mike Stellfox on UVM, the Debug Bottleneck, and...
My colleague and Cadence Distinguished Engineer Mike Stellfox leads a group of trailblazers inside Cadence. Specifically, Mike's group is tasked with moving our most promising prototypes and...
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True Stories of Assertion Driven Simulation (ADS) in the Wild
Ever since Assertion-Driven Simulation (ADS) became available, I have been working with customers to integrate ADS into their standard design and verification flow. Below are some true stories from my...
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Celebrating the Success of the UVM World Web Site
In case you missed it, Cadence issued a press release last week announcing that we have donated the UVM World Web site (www.uvmworld.org) to Accellera. This is a significant event for at least three...
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More Examples of Missing Real-World Assertions
Back in May, I published a blog post with examples of real-world situations that seemed to be begging for assertions to improve them. I mentioned misdirected advertising, mis-scheduled TV programming,...
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Enterprise Planner - CSV Import Tech Tip
Are you interested in an automating your directed or random test list that you manually maintain in MS Excel? Or are you looking to connect your coverage results automatically back onto those tests?...
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Video: Discussion with EET’s Brian Fuller on EDA, Engineers, and Social Media
At DAC I had the honor of being interviewed by EE Times editor Brian Fuller on my experiments with social media to connect to the communities of engineers that use the products and capabilities I help...
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Some Reflections on the Development of UVM World
In a recent blog post, I celebrated our donation of the Cadence-developed UVM World community Web site (www.uvmworld.org) to Accellera, the standards organization that owns and evolves the Universal...
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The Return of the Son of Real-World Assertions
I've received some nice feedback on my previous two posts about real-world situations that would benefit from assertions, so I will forge ahead with a few more examples. Last time I mentioned the DMV...
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Verifying AMBA® 4 ACE Designs – Cadence is Ready to Help, Now
ACE is here. Are you ready?Designers of multimedia smartphones, tablets, and other mobile computing devices face greater challenges than ever. They have to deliver ever more capable and responsive...
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What I Learned Traveling Across the Silicon Prairie
Inspired by Brian Fuller's cross-country "Drive for Innovation", last week I jumped at an opportunity to head out and visit customers in the heartland of America.Here were the common themes heard...
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UCIS Coverage Standard -- Innovation Means Business
Open solutions are just curiosities until the ecosystem figures out how to turn them into money. Java and Linux are good examples of that. When they first hit the "open" space, they were interesting...
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