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Tales from DAC: A Meeting of Security's Heroes at the Accellera Luncheon...
Welcome back to this account of the IP Security Panel at the Accellera Luncheon at DAC 2019. We’ve covered who’s seated on the panel and the moderator’s questions in the last installment (link to first...
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Tales 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...
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Tales 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...
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Tales 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....
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Cadence Leads the Pack: The First VIP for USB4 is Here!
On March 14th, Cadence announced the release of the industry’s first USB4-supporting Verification IP! The Cadence VIP for USB4 allows engineers to design and create cutting-edge SoC designs compliant...
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Cadence Announces Continued Partnership With Northrop Grumman
On March 28th, 2019, Cadence Design Systems announced an expanded collaboration with Northrop Grumman centering on advanced-node SoC projects. Cadence’s cutting-edge verification tools are combining...
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Specman 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...
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Cadence 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...
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Cadence 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...
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Automotive 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...
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Automotive 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 Software propose we do?The issue of “solving security” is, at its core, impossible—security can never be 100%...
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Specman: 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...
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A 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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RAK Attack: Better Driver Tracing, Faster Palladium Build Time, UVM Register...
Looking to learn? There's a bunch of new RAKs (Rapid Adoption Kits) available online now!1) Indago 19.09 Better Driver Tracing and MoreAre you new to Indago and not sure where to start? Luckily,...
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Metamorphic Testing: The Future of Verification?
Curious about what’s going on behind the scenes with verification? Bernard Murphy, Jim Hogan, and our own Paul Cunningham are on the case with the “Innovation in Verification” blog stream over at...
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Specman’s Callback Coverage API
Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources than before. This increases the need to optimize the regression while not compromising on coverage.Some advanced...
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Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback
When you go to the store, you walk until you get there, stop, get your groceries, and go back home. You do not start circling around the block for few rounds. You do not say “if I walk around the block...
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Training Insights - Comprehensive RTL Signoff Using JasperGold Superlint App
Most have heard the phrase "time is money". Thinking more about it, probably the right phrase would be "time is more valuable than money". People look at their bank accounts with great attention but...
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Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback (part 2)
In recent blogs - specman-callback-coverage-api and improving-tests-efficiency-using-coverage-callback - we shared some ideas about how to employ the new Coverage Callback API for increasing the tests...
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Troubleshooting Xcelium Errors/Warnings with xmhelp/xmbrowse and Cadence...
I joined Cadence in July 2000 and was immediately put on a three-month training to learn and understand the simulator tools. There were formal training sessions, and I had a mentor whom I could ask all...
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