Tales from DAC: The New Spectre Simulator Is Here!
If you’re doing circuit simulation anywhere in the world, you’re probably already familiar with the Cadence Spectre® simulator. The Spectre simulator is an accurate and high-performance SPICE circuit...
View ArticleTales from DAC: Cadence, AI, and You
Complexity is driving the urgency for advanced artificial intelligence systems more than ever—and that means someone has to supply the tools to create those systems. Cadence is up to the task: we’ve...
View ArticleTales from DAC: MediaTek's Experience with Spectre X Simulator
MediaTek recently gave the new Spectre X Simulator a try, and they talked about their experiences with it at DAC 2019 in a presentation given by YY Chen in the Cadence Theater.Spoiler alert: they loved...
View ArticleCadence at the Red Hat Summit--Come See Xcelium in Action!
The Red Hat Summit is coming around to Boston this year, and it’s only a few short days away. Cadence has a demo at the Marvell booth (that’s #418-1), and we’ll be there from 3-7 PM on Wednesday, May...
View ArticleTales from DAC: Semiconductor Design in MY Cloud? It's More Likely Than You...
Everyone keeps talking about “the cloud” this and “the cloud” that these days—but you’re a semiconductor designer. Everyone keeps saying “the cloud” is revolutionizing all aspects of electronics...
View ArticleTales from DAC: Altair's HERO is Your Hero
Emulators are great. They vastly speed up verification to the point where it’s hard to imagine life without them; as designs grow in complexity, simple simulation can’t keep up for the biggest designs....
View ArticleAutomotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 1 of 2
Autonomous vehicles are coming. In a statistic from the U.S. Department of Transportation, about 37,000 people died in car accidents in the United States in 2018. Having safe, fully automatic vehicles...
View ArticleAutomotive Security in the World of Tomorrow - Part 2 of 2
If you missed the first part of this series, you can find it here.So: what does Green Hills propose we do?The issue of “solving security” is, at its core, impossible—security can never be 100% assured....
View ArticleSpecman Linting and the all_unique Method
Sorting according to pointers- why?One of the best practices that you need to follow when using Specman or any other tool is to use a linting tool on a regular basis to catch bugs early. In Specman, we...
View ArticleCadence at the HOST Symposium: Come See What We're Doing!
The HOST Symposium is returning for its 12th year, and general registration is open now. The IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) aims to accelerate and assist...
View ArticleCadence at the Red Hat Summit--Come See Xcelium in Action!
The Red Hat Summit is coming around to Boston this year, and it’s only a few short days away. Cadence has a demo at the Marvell booth (that’s #418-1), and we’ll be there from 3-7 PM on Wednesday, May...
View ArticleConcurrent Actions in Specman: Part 2
In the previous blog: Concurrent Actions in Specman, we discussed the existing options: all of (which awaits completion of all branches) and first of (which terminates at the first completion of any...
View ArticleThinci Finds Success with the Cadence Verification Suite
On May 23rd, 2019, Cadence announced that Thinci has elected to use the complete Cadence Verification Suite to speed up the verification of their machine-learning and AI designs. Now, Thinci can access...
View ArticleSpecman: Analyze Your Coverage with Python
In the former blog about Python and Specman: Specman: Python Is here!, we described the technical information around Specman-Python integration. Since Python provides so many easy to use existing...
View ArticleCadence at the HOST Symposium: Come See What We're Doing!
The HOST Symposium is returning for its 12th year, and general registration is open now. The IEEE International Symposium on Hardware-Oriented Security and Trust (HOST) aims to accelerate and assist...
View ArticleCadence at the Red Hat Summit--Come See Xcelium in Action!
The Red Hat Summit is coming around to Boston this year, and it’s only a few short days away. Cadence has a demo at the Marvell booth (that’s #418-1), and we’ll be there from 3-7 PM on Wednesday, May...
View ArticleConcurrent Actions in Specman: Part 2
In the previous blog: Concurrent Actions in Specman, we discussed the existing options: all of (which awaits completion of all branches) and first of (which terminates at the first completion of any...
View ArticleThinci Finds Success with the Cadence Verification Suite
On May 23rd, 2019, Cadence announced that Thinci has elected to use the complete Cadence Verification Suite to speed up the verification of their machine-learning and AI designs. Now, Thinci can access...
View ArticleGot IP Security Questions? This Luncheon at DAC Has Answers
If you’ve got security on the mind—and in this day and age, who doesn’t?—and you’re planning to attend DAC, be sure to stop by the Accellera-sponsored Luncheon Focusing on IP Security Assurance Issues...
View ArticleA Specman/e Syntax for Sublime Text 3
We're happy to have guest blogger Thorsten Dworzak, Principal Consultant at Verilab GmbH, describe how he added Specman/e syntax to Sublime Text 3:According to the 2018 StackOverflow Developer Survey,...
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