• The future of tooling from IP configuration to SoC verification
    The modern SoC typically consists of billions of transistors and is normally designed with many modular IP blocks. Each of these blocks have been commercially licensed, developed or reused from previous...
  • Using Portable Stimulus in the Arm World: Creating bare-metal SW coherency scenarios
    In my last blog ( Navigating SoC Verification with Perspec Portable Stimulus ) I introduced the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) and how Cadence Perspec System Verifier supports the creation...
  • Performance Analysis and Verification of SoC Interconnects
    In the world of the System on Chip (SoC) end users have come to expect a richer web experience, full HD video, full HD gaming and sophisticated applications leading to embedded processors becoming more...
  • Software Driven Verification of ARM-based SoC Designs
    I started my design career far too long ago doing system verification on a multi-processor server design. Basically, I was charged with assembling a model of the system and then writing some tests to...
  • Navigating the Product Development Journey
    Where did your last project start? How did you get from an idea to the point where you knew it would work and could do real product development? What twists and turns did your path take before the first...