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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...

By Dennis Brophy

Embedded Software

Power outlets when traveling - and USB again

All through my career I have traveled quite lot for my work and find it hard to imagine any other...

Verification Horizons

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...

By Tom Fitzpatrick

Verification Horizons

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...

By Harry Foster

Verification Horizons

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...

By Harry Foster

Embedded Software

Spotting the difference - subtleties of C code

It is common for C to provide several different ways to do something, all of which are exactly equivalent. For...

Embedded Software

Shutting the Windows - moving to a Mac?

I have been using PCs for about 30 years. Initially, they ran MS-DOS. Windows was an option for some years,...

Embedded Software

DAC and Embedded TechCon - embedded and EDA coming together?

It is hard to believe that it is almost 20 years since Mentor Graphics started to build a presence in...

Verification Horizons

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...

By Rich Edelman