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Mixing It Up in Hardware (an Advantest Case Study in Faster Full-Chip...
Key Findings: Advantest, in mixed-signal SoC design, sees 50X speedup, 25 day test reduced to 12 hours, dramatic test coverage increase.Trolling through the CDNLive archives, I discovered another gem....
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Five Reasons I'm Excited About Mixed-Signal Verification in 2015
Key Findings: Many more design teams will be reaching the mixed-signal methodology tipping point in 2015. That means you need to have a (verification) plan, and measure and execute against it.As 2014...
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Start Your Engines: Seamlessly Reusing Advanced Digital Testbenches in AMS UNL
The Virtuoso Advanced Testbench Reuse flow with Xcelium eases the painful process of SV UVM testbench reuse in the AMS UNL flow. Continue reading to know more.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: The Blog-o-Meter Check
A summary of the blogs published in the Start Your Engines blog series.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: Pointers to Speed Up a Slow Mixed-Signal Simulation
There may be times when the mixed-signal verification engineers observe a slow analog mixed-signal (AMS) simulation. The complexity of design and inappropriate usage of simulator options may be the...
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Start Your Engines: A GUI to Define HDL Packages for the AMS Designer and...
In this post, I will cover how HDL packages in Virtuoso can be set up for use in the AMS Designer flow.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: Speed Up Your Analog Mixed-Signal Verification with...
In this post, I will explain how you could speed up your mixed-signal verification with the Spectre X simulator. I will also cover how Spectre X can be set up for use in the AMS Designer flows(read more)
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Start Your Engines: Two Critical Components of Low-Power Mixed-Signal...
The low-power format, CPF/UPF/IEEE1801, has been very popular in the digital simulation world for over ten years. Nowadays, it is also commonly used in the mixed-signal simulations.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: The Blog-o-Meter Check - Lap 2
This blog summaries the latest five blogs published in the Start Your Engines series.(read more)
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Integrating AMS IP in SoC Verification Just Got Easier
Typically, analog designers verify their AMS IP in schematic driven, interactive environment, while SoC designers use a UVM SystemVerilog testbench ran from a command line. In our last MS blog, we...
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Take Advantage of Advancements in Real Number Modeling and Simulation
Verification is the top challenge in mixed-signal design. Bringing analog and digital domains together into unified verification planning, simulating, and debugging is a challenging task for rapidly...
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Verifying Power Intent in Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs Using Formal Methods
Analog and Mixed-signal (AMS) designs are increasingly using active power management to minimize power consumption. Typical mixed-signal design uses several power domains and operate in a dozen or more...
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Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex—Take your Pick!
Introduction to AMSD Flex mode and its benefits.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex – Your Instant Access to Latest Spectre Features!
This blog talks about how to enable the AMS Designer flex mode.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: Mixed-Signal Modeling Methods for Converting an...
This blog explains how to convert an electrical signal to a real number in your design.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: Mixed-Signal Modeling Best Practices for Converting a...
In my previous post, I explained the three methods to convert an electrical signal to a real number. In this post, I will cover the methods to convert a real number signal to an electrical signal in...
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Verifying Power Intent in Analog and Mixed-Signal Designs Using Formal Methods
Analog and Mixed-signal (AMS) designs are increasingly using active power management to minimize power consumption. Typical mixed-signal design uses several power domains and operate in a dozen or more...
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Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex—Take your Pick!
Introduction to AMSD Flex mode and its benefits.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex – Your Instant Access to Latest Spectre Features!
This blog talks about how to enable the AMS Designer flex mode.(read more)
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Start Your Engines: The Why and How of Generating Spectre Netlists for Analog...
Read to know about generating netlist in the Spectre native format using AMS UNL.(read more)
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