Accellera and PSS 3.0 at #61DAC

Accellera and PSS 3.0 at #61DAC
by Daniel Payne on 09-03-2024 at 10:00 am

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Accellera invited me to attend their #61DAC panel discussion about the new Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) v3.0, and the formal press release was also just announced. The big idea with PSS is to enable seamless reuse of stimulus across simulation, emulation and post-silicon debug and prototyping.

Tom Fitzpatrick from Siemens… Read More


Agnisys at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

Agnisys at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-19-2024 at 8:00 am

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Agnisys Inc. a leader in design and verification automation for hardware development, is gearing up for an impactful presence at DAC 2024. This year’s participation will be marked by various activities designed to engage and inspire the electronic design automation (EDA) community. Attendees can look forward to our … Read More


Accellera and Clock Domain Crossing at #60DAC

Accellera and Clock Domain Crossing at #60DAC
by Daniel Payne on 08-02-2023 at 10:00 am

Accellera, clock domain crossing, #60DAC

Accellera sponsored a luncheon panel discussion at #60DAC, so I registered and attended to learn more about one of the newest working groups for Clock Domain Crossing (CDC). An overview of Accellera was provided by Lu Dai, then the panel discussion was moderated by Paul McLellan of Cadence, with the following panel members:

  • Anupam
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WEBINAR: Driving Golden Specification-Based IP/SoC Development

WEBINAR: Driving Golden Specification-Based IP/SoC Development
by Daniel Nenni on 07-19-2023 at 10:00 am

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The ever-increasing demands placed on Intellectual Property (IP) and System-on-Chip (SoC) development teams have resulted in an ever-increasing need for automation solutions that can boost productivity without contributing to further risk. Certainly, demands for automation have long been the drivers behind the growth… Read More


The Inconvenient Truth of Clock Domain Crossings

The Inconvenient Truth of Clock Domain Crossings
by Anupam Bakshi on 07-17-2023 at 6:00 am

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Almost everything that we do in chip design and verification was invented to raise the abstraction above schematics and polygons. Register-transfer-level (RTL) design, functional simulation, logic synthesis, floorplanning, and more fall into this category. Even the notion of binary circuits is an abstraction. Underneath… Read More


Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12

Visit with Agnisys at DAC 2023 in San Francisco July 10-12
by Anupam Bakshi on 07-06-2023 at 6:00 am

Accellera Lunch 2023

I’d like to extend an invitation to you and your development team to visit with Agnisys in our booth, #2512, at this week’s Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2023, Monday, July 10-12.

In its 60th year, DAC is recognized as the premier event for the design and design automation of electronic chips to systems, so you can count on team… Read More


Can We Auto-Generate Complete RTL, SVA, UVM Testbench, C/C++ Driver Code, and Documentation for Entire IP Blocks?

Can We Auto-Generate Complete RTL, SVA, UVM Testbench, C/C++ Driver Code, and Documentation for Entire IP Blocks?
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-11-2022 at 6:00 am

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Whether it is fully autonomous driving, or wrinkle-free fabric, or ambient energy harvesting for powering electronic devices, each industry is chasing after its respective ultimate goal. For the semiconductor design industry, its goal is the capability to generate complete chip or IP in executable format from a high-level… Read More


Podcast EP92: The Impact of a Specification-Driven Correct-by-Construction Approach on Design and Verification with Agnisys

Podcast EP92: The Impact of a Specification-Driven Correct-by-Construction Approach on Design and Verification with Agnisys
by Daniel Nenni on 07-01-2022 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Anupam Bakshi, founder and CEO of Agnisys. Anupam has more than two decades of experience implementing a wide range of products and services in the high tech industry. Prior to forming Agnisys, he held various management and technical lead roles at companies such as Avid Technology Inc., PictureTel, Blackstone,… Read More


ISO 26262: Feeling Safe in Your Self-Driving Car

ISO 26262: Feeling Safe in Your Self-Driving Car
by Daniel Nenni on 04-11-2022 at 10:00 am

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The word “safety” can mean a lot of different things to different people, but it’s a word we hear frequently when the topic involves automobiles. In contrast, “functional safety” has a long-established meaning in the design of electrical and mechanical systems: an automatic protection mechanism with a predictable response … Read More


DAC 2021 – What’s Up with Agnisys and Spec-driven IC Development

DAC 2021 – What’s Up with Agnisys and Spec-driven IC Development
by Daniel Payne on 01-11-2022 at 10:00 am

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Walking the exhibit floors at DAC in December I spotted the familiar face of Anupam  Bakshi, Founder and CEO of Agnisys, so I stopped by the booth to get an update on his EDA company. My first question for him was about the origin of the company name, Agnisys, and I found at that Agni means Fire in Sanskrit, one of the five elements.

The … Read More