CadenceTECHTALK: iPegasus Verification System for Virtuoso Studio

CadenceTECHTALK: iPegasus Verification System for Virtuoso Studio
by Admin on 08-21-2025 at 2:06 am

Speaker: Hong-Cheang Quek, AE Director

10:00am~11:00am iPegasus Verification System for Virtuoso Studio

11:00am~11:15am Q&A

Description: Today’s complex SoC designs significantly increase layout creation and verification time, especially at advanced nodes. To meet overall demand for faster design cycle… Read More


Revolutionizing Simulation Turnaround: How Siemens’ SmartCompile Transforms SoC Verification

Revolutionizing Simulation Turnaround: How Siemens’ SmartCompile Transforms SoC Verification
by Kalar Rajendiran on 07-08-2025 at 10:00 am

SmartCompile

In the race to deliver ever-larger SoCs under shrinking schedules, simulation is becoming a bottleneck. With debug cycles constrained by long iteration times—even for minor code changes—teams are finding traditional flows too rigid and slow. The problem is further magnified in continuous integration and continuous deployment… Read More


AlphaDesign AI Experts Wade into Design and Verification

AlphaDesign AI Experts Wade into Design and Verification
by Bernard Murphy on 03-06-2025 at 6:00 am

DVCon 2025 talk min

I mentioned in an earlier blog that multiple presentations at DVCon 2025 went all-in on AI-assisted design and verification. The presentation was one such example, looking very much at top-down AI-expert application of agentic flows to design and verification. AlphaDesign is a new startup out of UC Santa Barbara headed by William… 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


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


Making UVM faster through a new configuration system

Making UVM faster through a new configuration system
by Daniel Payne on 12-26-2023 at 10:00 am

Elapsed Time min

The Universal Verification Methodology (UVM) is a popular way to help verify SystemVerilog designs, and it includes a configuration system that unfortunately has some speed and usage issues. Rich Edelman from Siemens EDA wrote a detailed 20-page paper on the topic of how to avoid these issues, and I’ve gone through it to… Read More


A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin

A New Verification Conference Coming to Austin
by Bernard Murphy on 08-15-2023 at 6:00 am

Actually not so new, just new to us in the US. Verification Futures is already well established as a Tessolve event with a 10-year track record in the UK. This year they are bringing the conference to Austin on September 14th (REGISTER HERE).

While DVCon is an ever-popular event for sharing verification ideas, it isn’t always accessible… Read More


Optimizing Return on Investment (ROI) of Emulator Resources

Optimizing Return on Investment (ROI) of Emulator Resources
by Kalar Rajendiran on 04-12-2023 at 6:00 am

Verification Options SW vs HAV

Modern day chips are increasingly complex with stringent quality requirements, very demanding performance requirement and very low power consumption requirement. Verification of these chips is very time consuming and accounts for approximately 70% of the simulation workload on EDA server farms. As software-based simulators… Read More