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System Design and Verification  

AMD
AMD
Alex Starr

Alex Starr, Hardware Emulation Architect at AMD, highlights the unique capabilities of Palladium XP and in-circuit acceleration

Broadcom
Vahid Ordoubadian
Broadcom

Vahid Ordoubadian, Director - Mobile Platform Group at Broadcom, describes the use of Cadence Palladium XP to validate a new architecture for a complex mobile SoC for mobile platform devices.

Agere Systems
Design Challenge
Adopt a new verification environment to enable hardware/software co-verification
Speed development time for 6-million-gate Link Layer Processor

Cadence Solution
Demonstrated the power of the Cadence Palladium® accelerator/ emulator by bringing up a new verification environment in only two weeks
Success of initial project convinced Agere to choose the Incisive Palladium II system for future designs
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Anchor Bay
Design Challenge
Larger chips but shorter design cycles
Integrating an entire transceiver supporting multiple standards onto a single SoC

Cadence Solution
Cadence Incisive Xtreme III boosts design team verification productivity with instant "hot swap" among simulation, acceleration, and emulation
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Casio
Design Challenge
Migrate Casio engineers to a new transaction-level modeling (TLM)-driven design methodology based on next-generation high-level synthesis (HLS)
Rearchitect legacy designs to maximize the benefit of new process technologies, while avoiding the effort of developing new RTL manually from scratch

Cadence Solution
R&D partnership with Casio engineers to adopt next-generation HLS technology developed at Cadence for production usage at Casio
Comprehensive design and verification methodologies/flows (specified and developed with Casio engineers) to integrate HLS with the rest of Casio production design flows
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Nufront
Business Challenges
Quickly roll out a third-generation dualcore Cortex-A9 mobile computing chip without sacrificing quality
Enable customers to speed up product launches and win more business
Design Challenges
Design a complex chip with 12M gates
Comply with strict mobile-computing platform requirements
Achieve low levels of power consumption and a high level of performance
Cadence Solutions
Palladium XP Verification Computing Platform
Incisive Enterprise Manager
Palladium XP Dynamic Power Analysis
SpeedBridge rate adapters
Results
Sped up simulation goals by approximately 1,000x
Increased productivity while meeting stringent quality requirements
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NVIDIA
Narendra Konda
NVIDIA

Narendra Konda, Director of Hardware Engineering at NVIDIA, outlines how the Cadence System Development Suite helps his design team successfully integrate complex hardware and software, develop app-ready systems more quickly, and ultimately improve the overall quality and competitiveness of their products.

Philips
Design Challenge
Adopt a new process that would allow the team to achieve higher productivity without disrupting their existing design flow

Cadence Solution
Deployed the Cadence Incisive® Xtreme® Server, an easy-to-use solution that integrated seamlessly into the team's existing SoC design flow
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Silicon Laboratories
Design Challenge
Full-chip verification was much too slow with regard to integrating the analog and digital content at the full chip level
Verification productivity must be improved by allowing users to begin the digital verification effort much sooner in the overall process

Cadence Solution
Cadence Incisive Enterprise Simulator running the Digital Mixed Signal option
Cadence Mixed-Signal Solution allows users to seamlessly connect Real Value Models to the digital content
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Sound Design
Design Challenge
Develop the industry’s first monolithic, 4-core audio aid
Shrink the die size to meet a 3.8mm limit for the human ear
Meet ultra-low power targets with customized clock timing and advanced chip stacking

Cadence Solution
Provide a complete, production-proven, advanced digital design, implementation, and verification flow
Mitigate risk and optimize time to productivity with expert design consulting services
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STMicroelectronics
Design Challenge
Verify a 100-million-transistor IC on a tight schedule using existing verification environment

Cadence Solution
HW-based verification system
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STMicroelectronics
Business Challenge
  • Achieve faster debug of RTL data cache flow
  • Quickly gain familiarity with new testbench for enhanced productivity
Design Challenges
  • Learn testbench environment and manage debug process independently after support from testbench developer ended
  • Detect and resolve bugs faster and earlier in the process
Cadence Solutions
  • Incisive Debug Analyzer
  • Incisive Specman Elite Testbench
  • Incisive Enterprise Simulator
  • SimVision
Results
  • Saved 2 months of debugging time
  • Enhanced team productivity with easy-to-use debug tool
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STMicroelectronics
Laurent Mailet-Contoz
STMicroelectronics

Laurent Mailet-Contoz, Project Leader from STMicroelectronics uses the Incisive verification platform at the transaction level to reduce their design cycle and help the company to be the first to new markets.

Sun Microsystems
Design Challenge
Develop the highest throughput and most eco-responsible processor available
Employ a verification platform that could eliminate costly respins and accelerate project completion

Cadence Solution
Seamlessly integrated simulation, acceleration, and in-circuit emulation into a single verification environment
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Sun Microsystems
Jai Kumar
Sun Microsystems

Jai Kumar, Verification Technologist from Sun Microsystems shared his verification experience of advanced development of UltraSPARC processors with Cadence Incisive Xtreme series.

Texas Instruments
Business Challenge
Short time-to-market window for complex mixed-signal design verification
Design Challenges
High-performance, ultra low-power features in close interaction with core analog functional blocks at the SoC level
High-volume product
Functional failures would lead to costly design iterations
Cadence Solutions
Digital-centric mixed-signal verification flow
Incisive Enterprise Simulator Digital/Mixed-Signal (DMS) Option
Incisive Enterprise Specman Elite Testbench
Incisive Enterprise Manager
Virtuoso AMS Designer with flexible analog simulation
Virtuoso Accelerated Parallel Simulator – XL
Customer Support
Results
300x faster verification vs. mixed-signal simulation at the transistor level
Improved time to market and product quality with mixed-signal regression runs
Fewer re-spins with high-performance, real-number modeling and top-level, metric-driven mixed-signal SoC verification
Earlier detection and correction of errors
10x cycle-time improvement in mixed-signal verification
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Duolog
David Murray
Duolog

David Murray, CTO at Duolog, discusses collaborating with Cadence to help customers address SoC integration and verification.

Freescale Semiconductor
Freescale Semiconductor
Wai-Chee Wong

Wai-Chee Wong, Senior Member of Technical Staff at Freescale Semiconductor, details how Palladium XP helps speed their verification effort by 10,000x over simulation.

Imperas and Cadence Collaboration
Larry Lapides, Imperas and Larry Melling, Cadence
Imperas and Cadence Collaboration

Hear from Larry Lapides, Vice President of Sales at Imperas, and Larry Melling Product Manager - Virtual System Platform at Cadence, as they describe the collaboration and use of the Cadence Virtual System Platform along with Imperas’ processor models and verification analysis and profiling tools to address challenges of embedded software development for complex SOCs.

NVIDIA
Narendra Konda
NVIDIA

Narendra Konda, Director, HW Engineering at NVIDIA, discusses leveraging Palladium XP and the Rapid Prototyping Platform to integrate complex hardware and software designs.

STMicroelectronics
Abhishek Jain
STMicroelectronics

Abhishek Jain, Technical Manager at STMicroelectronics, talks about working with the Cadence Incisive Verification Solution to deploy a UVM multi-language, low-power verification methodology resulting in earlier and integrated verification.

Xilinx
Xilinx
David Beal

David Beal, Zynq 7000 EPP Product Manager at Xilinx, describes how the Cadence Virtual System Platform helps to accelerate product development

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