What Is New in the Latest AMBA 5 ACE, AXI and AHB Protocol Specification...
The industry-standard ARM AMBA® 5 protocol specifications continue to evolve, further improving performance and efficiency of key ARM architecture features. Besides the updates of powerful AMBA CHI...
View ArticleWhat Disruptive Changes to Expect from PCI Express Gen 6.0
PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) has long been the backbone of complex systems, and provides a high-bandwidth, high-performance link for interconnecting devices imposed by cloud-based...
View ArticleIntroduction to Macros – Answers to Your Questions
Thanks to all the people who attended the webinar Extend the Language! An Introduction to Specman Macros that we had on March the 17th. If you did not attend, or attended and want to see it again – you...
View ArticleHow to Verify LPDDR5 from IP to System Level?
LPDDR5 DRAM aims to serve a wide array of markets, including automotive, client PCs and networking systems built for 5G and AI Application. So not only that the JEDEC LPDDR5 specification has seriously...
View ArticleAMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification Updates and Their Support in Cadence ACE/AXI VIP
As discussed in the previous blog, the AMBA® 5 specification updates introduced several performance improvement features which align the AMBA5 ACE/AXI protocol with AMBA® 5 CHI (Coherent Hub Interface)...
View ArticleWebinar: Using e Reflection
Join Cadence Training and Software Architect Efrat Shneydor for this free technical Training Webinar.Reflection is a unique capability in the e language, providing a deep inspection of the program,...
View ArticleHyperRam as DRAM for Some Applications!!!
Applications like Automotive, Industrial control panels, Smart Home, Smart watches, smart speakers and bends require Low cost, Low power consumption, High computing efficiency, Easy to control and Low...
View ArticleDisplayPort 128b/132b Concurrent LTTPR Link Training
Before a video frame can be sent, the Source (DP-TX) must complete link training (LT) with the downstream devices. DisplayPort (DP) version 2.0 specification mandates support for a 128b/132b link layer...
View ArticleTaking LPDDR5 to the Next Level
To cater to ever-increasing bandwidth demands from low-power DRAMs especially for devices like cell phones, tablets and others with limited power budgets, JEDEC has extended the clock frequencies...
View ArticleWebinar: Extend the Language Using Specman e Macros!
Using Cadence® Specman® Elite macros lets you extend the e language ─ i.e. invent your own syntax.Today, every verification environment contains multiple macros. Some are simple “syntax sugaring” and...
View ArticleTraining Insights — Metastability-Aware Verification: Elevate Your Signoff...
I hope you enjoyed and got good insights about the Cadence® JasperGold® CDC during the previous CDC webinar "Still Relying on Static-Only CDC Signoff? Introducing the JasperGold CDC App". If you didn't...
View ArticlePIPE SerDes Architecture for PCIe Gen 5 and Beyond
Intel PIPE (PHY Interface for PCIE, SATA, USB3.1, DisplayPort and USB4) specification has been ubiquitous PHY interface for accelerating the design and verification of higher layer protocol stacks for...
View ArticleWhy IDE Security Technology for PCIe and CXL?
The new cloud, AI, Analytics, and Edge usage models with exponential data growth and connection drive the evolution of high-bandwidth PCIe (Peripheral Component Interconnect Express) version 5.0 and...
View ArticleComprehensive Approach to Verification of Interconnect-Centric Systems
Many of today’s SoCs are built around multi-layered, sophisticated interconnect IP components that link together multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP blocks. These...
View ArticleTraining Insights - Addressing Security Verification Requirements with...
As a chip designer, you’re probably spending as much headspace on security threats as you are on traditional challenges like power, speed, and functionality. Recent microarchitectural vulnerabilities...
View ArticleVerification of Integrity and Data Encryption(IDE) for PCIe Devices
The concept of Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) was developed in the early 2000s to standardize key encryptions, end-to-end security and authenticity, and confidentiality of devices in a system....
View ArticleSingle DRAM or Multi-DRAMs Memory Sub-system for Your Next SOC ?
Even with the DRAM capacity going up with each generation of DRAM, the demand for memory densities by variety of applications, is growing at even faster rate. To support these high memory densities...
View ArticleWhy is Ethernet Time-sensitive Networking (TSN) Adaptation So Rapid in the...
At a particular point in time, the automotive industry continued to add more and more sensors and electronic control units to vehicles. All these sensors and actuators used to connect through CAN and...
View ArticleFrom AMBA ACE to CHI, Why Move for Coherency?
Introduced back in 2011, ACE (AXI Coherency Extensions) grew from existing AXI protocol, to satisfy the cache coherency maintenance demands of SOCs with multi core processors and shared caches in smart...
View Article5G Network Revolution for Enhanced User Experience and Industry Digitalization
The emerging 5G network is the 5th generation of the cellular network. A 5G network allows handling a thousand times more traffic than today's networks. Not only is it faster than the 4G network, but...
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