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No to Know VIP – Part 2

No to Know VIP – Part 2

Continuing on our journey on what is needed to get to productive verification with VIP, the first step is to…

Driving More Accurate Dynamic Power Estimation

Driving More Accurate Dynamic Power Estimation

There are intrinsic limitations in the current approach for estimating dynamic power consumption. Briefly, the approach consists of a file-based…

NEW Formal & CDC Courses on Verification Academy

NEW Formal & CDC Courses on Verification Academy

Do you have a really tough verification problem – one that takes seemingly forever for a testbench simulation to solve…

It’s Time for a New Verification Debug Data API (DDA)

It’s Time for a New Verification Debug Data API (DDA)

Learn more about DDA at DAC At DAC – Mentor Graphics and Cadence Design Systems are coming together to usher…

Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group Accepting Technology Contributions

Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group Accepting Technology Contributions

I am please to announce that, beginning today, the Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group (PSWG) is accepting technology contributions to…

Part 6: The 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

Part 6: The 2014 Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study

FPGA Language and Library Trends This blog is a continuation of a series of blogs related to the 2014 Wilson…

An Agile Evolution in SoC Verification Panel @ DAC

An Agile Evolution in SoC Verification Panel @ DAC

This year we are trying something new at the Verification Academy booth during next week’s 2015 Design Automation Conference.  We’ve…

UVM Debug. A contest using class based testbench debug…

UVM Debug. A contest using class based testbench debug…

Still having fun doing UVM and Class based debug? Maybe a debug contest will help. I had a contest with…

No to Know VIP

No to Know VIP

In a recent post on deepchip.com John Cooley wrote about “Who Knew VIP?”. In addition, Mark Olen wrote about this…