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New RTL Modeling Constructs in Verilog

I’ve been packing up my office as Siemens is closing my location. This marks the longest I’ve ever spent in a single office, a whopping 15 years. Coincidentally, I was in the same building earlier with another company, Avant! for an additional 2 years. I’ve got a box of stuff from previous jobs that I rarely unpack. But it happened to go through it and found the proceedings from what was to become the first DVCon in 1992. I doubt these proceedings exist anywhere in digital form.

In the proceedings was a paper I published about a new RTL modeling construct I added to Verilog before it became an IEEE standard. It eventually became known as a NonBlocking Assignment (NBA).

Interchange format standard in hierarchical CDC and RDC analysis

For large designs with numerous asynchronous clocks and resets, there is a growing need to do clock domain crossing (CDC) and reset domain crossing (RDC) analysis in a hierarchical way. This allows parallelization of sub-block and noiseless analysis and helps reduce SoC runtime and speed closure of CDC and RDC issues at the SoC level. Conversely, it poses challenges for design houses using third-party IP in ensuring the compatibility of their hierarchical data models (HDM) in the case of multiple EDA tools usage.

The Grapes Are Ready

The Grapes Are Back! And Cake! And C Tests with UVM and Transactions For All! Easy.

The grapes have returned – this weekend was “harvest” time. Jelly everywhere. A lot like this year here at Siemens….

First-Silicon Success

Why First-Silicon Success Is Getting Harder for System Companies

First-silicon success is getting harder.

Everyone wants their own chip. Few are hitting first-silicon success.

That’s the paradox shaping today’s semiconductor landscape.

In the 2024 Siemens EDA / Wilson Research Group Functional Verification Study, which I authored, we found that only 14% of ASIC/SoC projects achieved first-silicon success — the lowest figure in more than twenty years of tracking this data.

DVCon India 2025 - 10th Anniversary

Siemens at DVCon India 2025: Driving the Future of Design and Verification

DVCon India 2025, taking place on September 10–11 at the Radisson Blu, Marathahalli, Bengaluru, will mark a special milestone—its 10th anniversary. Over the past decade, DVCon India has grown into one of the region’s most influential conferences for design and verification professionals. Siemens will be prominently featured across vision talks, technical papers, posters, and workshops, showcasing its leadership in AI-driven EDA, hardware-assisted verification, and formal methodologies.

Reminder: DVCon U.S. 2026 Call for Papers – Sept 7th Deadline Approaching!

The DVCon U.S. 2026 Call for Papers deadline is Sunday, September 7th at 11:59 PM. Don’t miss your chance to share your expertise…

Siemens EDA at FMS 2025 – Shaping the Future of Memory and Storage

We’re excited to connect with fellow innovators, engineers, and industry leaders at FMS 2025. Whether you’re attending our sessions or stopping by Booth #1140, we look forward to sharing the latest technical advancements in verification IP, system-level validation, and memory and interconnect technologies.

Industrial-Grade AI in EDA: From Promise to Practice — A Siemens Panel at DAC 2025

Industrial-Grade AI in EDA