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Tempus: Delivering Faster Timing Signoff with Optimal PPA

Tempus: Delivering Faster Timing Signoff with Optimal PPA
by Mike Gianfagna on 10-12-2020 at 10:00 am

Tempus Delivering Faster Timing Signoff with Optimal PPA

In July, I explored the benefits of the new Cadence Tempus™ Power Integrity Solution. In that piece, I explored some of the unique capabilities of this new tool with Brandon Bautz, senior product management group director and Hitendra Divecha, product management director in the Digital & Signoff Group at Cadence. I recently… Read More


Bug Trace Minimization. Innovation in Verification

Bug Trace Minimization. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 09-22-2020 at 6:00 am

innovation min

A checker tripped in verification. Is there a bug trace minimization technique to simplify manual debug? Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Jim Hogan and I continue our series to highlight all the great research that’s out there in verification. Feel free to comment.

The Innovation

This month’s pick is Simulation-BasedRead More


Anirudh CadenceLIVE Plays Up Computational Software

Anirudh CadenceLIVE Plays Up Computational Software
by Bernard Murphy on 09-17-2020 at 6:00 am

Anirudh min

Cadence has clearly found its groove with Intelligent System Design, something that Lip-Bu reinforced in the CadenceLIVE kickoff keynote on Tuesday, August 11th. Anirudh Devgan, president of Cadence, continued to discuss the theme in his keynote on Wednesday, August 12th with his equally consistent subtitle—”Strength… Read More


Lip-Bu Hyperscaler Cast Kicks off CadenceLIVE

Lip-Bu Hyperscaler Cast Kicks off CadenceLIVE
by Bernard Murphy on 09-02-2020 at 6:00 am

Lip Bu min

Lip-Bu (Cadence CEO) sure knows how to draw a crowd. For the opening keynote in CadenceLIVE (Americas) this year, he reprised his data-centric revolution pitch, followed by a talk from a VP at AWS on bending the curve in chip development. And that was followed by a talk by a Facebook director of strategy and technology on aspects of… Read More


Quick Error Detection. Innovation in Verification

Quick Error Detection. Innovation in Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 08-27-2020 at 6:00 am

innovation min

Can we detect bugs in post- and pre-silicon testing where we can drastically reduce latency between root-cause and effect? Quick error detection can. Paul Cunningham (GM, Verification at Cadence), Jim Hogan and I continue our series on novel research ideas. Feel free to comment.

The Innovation

This month’s pick is Logic Bug DetectionRead More


The Big Three Weigh in on Emulation Best Practices

The Big Three Weigh in on Emulation Best Practices
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-18-2020 at 10:00 am

Emulation Best Practices

As software content increases in system-on-chip and system-in-package designs, emulation has become a critical enabling technology for the software team. This technology offers software developers the opportunity to verify their code in against a high-fidelity model of the target system that actually executes fast enough… Read More


Cadence Increases Verification Efficiency up to 5X with Xcelium ML

Cadence Increases Verification Efficiency up to 5X with Xcelium ML
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-13-2020 at 6:00 am

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SoC verification has always been an interesting topic for me. Having worked at companies like Zycad that offered hardware accelerators for logic and fault simulation, the concept of reducing the time needed to verify a complex SoC has occupied a lot of my thoughts. The bar we always tried to clear was actually simple to articulate… Read More


Structural CDC Analysis Signoff? Think Again.

Structural CDC Analysis Signoff? Think Again.
by Bernard Murphy on 08-05-2020 at 6:00 am

strainer min

Talking not so long ago to a friend from my Atrenta days, I learned that the great majority of design teams still run purely structural CDC analysis. You should sure asynchronous clock domains are suitably represented in the SDC, find all places where data crosses between those domains that require a synchronizer, gray-coded FIFO… Read More


Cadence on Automotive Safety: Without Security, There is no Safety

Cadence on Automotive Safety: Without Security, There is no Safety
by Mike Gianfagna on 08-04-2020 at 10:00 am

Attack vectors and EDA countermeasures

One of the Designer Track at this year’s DAC focused on the popular topic of automotive electronics.  The title was particularly on-point, The Modern Automobile: A Safety and Security “Hot Zone”. The session was chaired by Debdeep Mukhopadhyay, a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur.

This special, invited… Read More


DAC Panel: Cadence Weighs in on AI for EDA, What Applications, Where’s the Data?

DAC Panel: Cadence Weighs in on AI for EDA, What Applications, Where’s the Data?
by Mike Gianfagna on 07-29-2020 at 6:00 am

Drivers of Convergence in Computational Software

DAC was full of great panels, research papers and chip design stories this year, the same as other years. Being a virtual show, there were some differences of course. I’ve heard attendance was way up, allowing a lot more folks to experience the technical program.  This is likely to be true for a virtual event. I’m sure we’ll see more… Read More