Author Archives: TDF Staff

September 23, 2019

Automating wire-harness development

Harness manufacture in automotive remains manually intensive but model-based engineering provides a way to streamline the processes to make them more efficient, a Mentor white paper claims.
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July 8, 2019

Coventor updates process simulation tool

Coventor has updated its SEMulator virtual-fab tool and added the ability to tune process windows based on simulation results.
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May 20, 2019

DAC 2019 preview: Mentor

Mentor is active across the program and its main and Verification Academy booths within the exhibition in Las Vegas.
May 20, 2019

DAC 2019 preview: Verific Design Automation

In Las Vegas, the parser specialist will demonstrate its tools for EDA software development across VHDL, SystemVerilog and UPF.
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April 3, 2019

DVCon China 2019 preview: Breker Verification Systems

Breker CEO Adnan Hamid will lead a tutorial on the Portable Stimulus Standard as part of the verification specialist's activities in Shanghai.
April 3, 2019

DVCon China 2019 preview: OneSpin

The verification specialist will address the challenges posed by billion-gate SoCs and the integration of formal and simulation in its presentations.
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April 2, 2019

DVCon China 2019 preview: SmartDV

RISC-V VIP offerings headline the verification specialist’s presence in Shanghai later this month.
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March 26, 2019

UVM Cookbook released in new edition

Popular Verification Academy manual revamped and updated to bring it more closely in line with IEEE 1800.2 UVM and reflect the increasing use of emulation.
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March 12, 2019

Mastering automotive complexity through generative design

The trend toward Level 5 fully autonomous vehicles poses major complexity, cost and change issues that Generative Design flows aim to address.
February 26, 2019

A hardware-centric approach to checking HLS code before synthesis

Tools that checks pre-synthesis C++ and SystemC code have historically had no understanding of hardware intent. The Catapult Design Checker fills that gap.
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