Built-in Message Logging – Part 1 of 2
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March 11, 2010
[Team Specman welcomes guest blogger Michael Avery, from our Services Group in the UK] Messaging is important for two main reasons: It is essential for debugging It can greatly impact simulation performance This is why Specman has a messaging infrastructure
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VIP Portfolio Extension: New AMBA 4 Protocol Support
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March 8, 2010
ARM-loving Specmaniacs's rejoice: we are now at liberty to announce that we are providing Verification IP (VIP) support for the new AMBA 4 protocol simultaneously with ARM’s introduction of said protocol. Here is the official announcement, which
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Why OOP Falls Short For Verification
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March 3, 2010
Last week at DVCon , frequent Team Specman guest blogger Matan Vax of R&D gave a paper on "Where OOP Falls Short of Verification Needs". In the following video, Matan elaborates on his paper, where it becomes clear that OOP languages like
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Rev 2 of OVM e Scoreboard on OVMWorld.org Now
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February 18, 2010
Just in time for DVCon 2010 , I'm happy to inform you that revision 2 of the OVM e Scoreboard was just uploaded to OVMWorld: http://www.ovmworld.org The main changes from rev1: A proper User Guide containing detailed descriptions and code examples
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Cadence Exec: Why Cadence is Comitted to e/Specman
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February 16, 2010
In case you or your management are wondering about Cadence's commitment to supporting the e language and/or Specman technology, allow us to direct your attention to this interview of Cadence Verification VP Mitch Weaver (who never worked for Verisity
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DVCon 2010 For The Specmaniac
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February 15, 2010
At next week's DVCon in San Jose, CA, Cadence will cover all aspects of our verification technologies and methodologies ( full list of Cadence-sponsored activities is posted here ). Of course, Team Specman is here help Specmaniacs discover the many
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Beyond Coverage: Adding Arbitrary Metrics To Your Metric-Driven flow
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February 10, 2010
The most common metrics used in current metric driven verification (MDV) flows are various forms of code coverage (block, FSM, toggle etc.), assertion coverage, and functional coverage. As many of you know, all of these can be collected into Enterprise
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Tech Tip: Easy Way To Re-Run Using The Same Seed
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February 5, 2010
[Team Specman welcomes back Application Engineer Hilmar Van Der Kooij as this week’s guest blogger] Often we want to re-run a simulation with the exact same random seed that was used in the previous one. Unfortunately far too many people (ok, maybe
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Tech Tip: Waving Specman Objects in SimVision
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January 22, 2010
Did you know that you can wave Specman objects in IES-XL *and* also save the wave setup for automatically restarting the simulation? If not, this tech tip is for you! Here is the process: Step 0 – Once you are happy with your waveform setup, don’t
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Formalizing Multilanguage Mixology For e Users
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December 24, 2009
Historically it’s been very common for e users to have to mix other programming languages with their e verification environment. Some examples include adding C or C++ reference models, contributing e Universal Verification Components (UVCs) to non
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