SystemVerilog Functional Coverage for Real Datatypes

SystemVerilog Functional Coverage for Real Datatypes
by Mariam Maurice on 10-03-2024 at 6:00 am

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Functional coverage acts as a guide to direct verification resources by identifying the tested and untested portions of a design. Functional coverage is a user-defined metric that assesses the extent to which the design specification, as listed by the test plan’s features, has been used. It can be used to estimate the presence… Read More


Automating Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Verification with Advanced Data Analytics

Automating Reset Domain Crossing (RDC) Verification with Advanced Data Analytics
by Kalar Rajendiran on 09-26-2024 at 10:00 am

RDC Verification using Data Analysis Techniques

The complexity of System-on-Chip (SoC) designs continues to rise at an accelerated rate, with design complexity doubling approximately every two years. This increasing complexity makes verification a more difficult and time-consuming task for design engineers. Among the key verification challenges is managing reset domain… Read More


What are Cloud Flight Plans? Cost-effective use of cloud resources for leading-edge semiconductor design

What are Cloud Flight Plans? Cost-effective use of cloud resources for leading-edge semiconductor design
by Christopher Clee on 08-19-2024 at 10:00 am

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Embracing cloud computing is highly attractive for users of electronic design automation (EDA) tools and flows because of the productivity gains and time to market advantages that it can offer. For Siemens EDA customers engaged in designing large, cutting-edge chips at advanced nanometer scales, running Calibre® design stage… Read More


Solido Siemens and the University of Saskatchewan

Solido Siemens and the University of Saskatchewan
by Daniel Nenni on 07-03-2024 at 10:00 am

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In my 40 years, I have worked for dozens of companies and just about everyone of them was acquired. Some of the acquisitions were accretive and some were not. Probably the best and most accretive one would be the Solido acquisition by Siemens EDA in 2017. I worked for Solido for ten years reporting to CEO Amit Gupta. I handled Taiwan … Read More


Podcast EP232: The Evolution of Yield Learning and Silicon Debug with Marc Hutner

Podcast EP232: The Evolution of Yield Learning and Silicon Debug with Marc Hutner
by Daniel Nenni on 06-28-2024 at 10:00 am

Dan is joined by Marc Hutner. Marc has been innovating in the areas of design, test, DFT and data analytics for more than 20 years. In June of 2023, he joined the Siemens EDA Tessent group as the product director of Silicon Learning, enabling how silicon data is applied to yield improvement and silicon debug. Previously, he worked … Read More


Podcast EP230: An Overview of the Siemens EDA Calibre 3D Thermal Announcement at DAC with Dr. John Ferguson

Podcast EP230: An Overview of the Siemens EDA Calibre 3D Thermal Announcement at DAC with Dr. John Ferguson
by Daniel Nenni on 06-25-2024 at 8:00 am

Dan is joined by Dr. John Ferguson, senior director of marketing for the Calibre product line at Siemens EDA. John has worked extensively in physical design verification. Current activities include efforts to extend physical verification and PDK enablement for 3DIC design and silicon photonics.

Dan explores the Siemens EDA… Read More


Siemens Hardware-Assisted Verification at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

Siemens Hardware-Assisted Verification at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-20-2024 at 8:00 am

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Visitors to Siemens’ booth (#2521) at the 61st Design Automation Conference (DAC) will see on display the Veloce™ CS system that unifies hardware emulation, enterprise prototyping and software prototyping into one hardware-assisted verification and validation platform.

The display will feature the three single-blade … Read More


IC Manage at the 2024 Design Automation Conference

IC Manage at the 2024 Design Automation Conference
by Daniel Nenni on 06-18-2024 at 12:00 pm

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DAC in San Francisco will once again be a can’t miss event for semiconductor professionals seeking to discover the latest developments in EDA solutions that address the wide range of issues encountered in delivering high quality IC products and electronics systems to the market. IC Manage will be exhibiting its latest innovations… Read More


3DIC Verification Methodologies for Advanced Semiconductor ICs

3DIC Verification Methodologies for Advanced Semiconductor ICs
by Kalar Rajendiran on 06-06-2024 at 10:00 am

3DIC Flow Challenges

At the recent User2user conference, Amit Kumar, Principal Hardware Engineer, Microsoft, shared the company’s experience from building a 3DIC SoC and highlighted Siemens EDA tools that were used. The following is a synthesis of core aspects of that talk.

3DIC Challenges

Despite the numerous advantages of 3DIC technology, its… Read More


How does your EDA supplier ensure software quality?

How does your EDA supplier ensure software quality?
by admin on 05-30-2024 at 10:00 am

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In the fast-paced world of electronic design automation (EDA) software development, maintaining high code quality while adhering to tight deadlines is a significant challenge. Code coverage, an essential metric in software testing, measures the extent to which a software’s source code is executed in tests. High code… Read More