In June 2017, PCI-SIG announced the new PCI Express 5.0 specification, at the PCI-SIG DevCon. The new version of the specification doubled bit rate to 32GT/s per lane providing about 128GB/s bandwidth for a x16 Link (16 lanes). The chart below provides a comparison of bit-rate and bandwidth for the different PCIe Generations. The PCIe […]
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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016 was a great success and here we provide you the highlights of Synopsys’ activities at the event. Synopsys hosted the annual “SoC Leaders Verify with Synopsys” Verification luncheon. The luncheon featured industry experts and executives from Cavium, NXP, Qualcomm and Samsung, and drove our main messages of collaboration, with […]
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Posted in AMBA, Audio, Automotive, Camera, CAN, Data Center, DDR, Debug, DesignWare, Display, eMMC, Ethernet, Ethernet AVB, Flash, FlexRay, HBM, HMC, Interconnects, Interface Subsystems, LIN, LPDDR, Memory, Methodology, MIPI, Mobile SoC, ONFi, PCIe, Processor Subsystems, Storage, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, UFS, Uncategorized, USB, UVM | Comments Off on Verification Highlights from DAC 2016
The Design Automation Conference (DAC) 2016, in Austin, Texas kicks off next week starting June 5th to June 9th. As the leading and longest-running annual design and verification event, DAC is the premier place to network with fellow design and verification engineers. Synopsys will feature its annual Verification Luncheon and Customer Panel that discusses the […]
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Posted in Audio, Automotive, Camera, Data Center, Debug, DesignWare, Display, Ethernet, Interface Subsystems, Methodology, Mobile SoC, PCIe, Processor Subsystems, Storage, Success Stories, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, Uncategorized, UVM | Comments Off on Synopsys Verification Continuum at DAC 2016
The Holiday Season is upon us. As you stand in lines, wait for packages to arrive, keep in mind that Synopsys continues to provide you the highest level of service: support, available protocols and deployment of new titles that you, our current and future VIP customer, deserve. It has been a wonderful year — many […]
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Posted in AMBA, Automotive, C-PHY, CAN, CSI, D-PHY, Data Center, DDR, DesignWare, DFI, Display, DSI, eMMC, Ethernet, Ethernet AVB, Flash, HBM, HDCP, HDMI, HMC, I3C, LPDDR, Memory, Methodology, MIPI, MPHY, NVMe, ONFi, PCIe, SATA, Storage, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, UFS, Unipro, USB | Comments Off on Celebrating the Holiday Season with VIPs
Here, Synopsys R&D Director, Bernie DeLay, talks to EDACafe on the value of native SystemVerilog and UVM support in our VIP titles. He describes how our memory and protocol VIP have been built debug-friendly with Protocol Analyzer, and support constraint random verification for full functional coverage with back-annotation to executable verification plans. You can learn more […]
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Posted in AMBA, DDR, Debug, DesignWare, Ethernet, HDMI, LPDDR, Memory, Methodology, PCIe, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, USB, UVM | Comments Off on Bernie DeLay @ EDACafe on the Value of SystemVerilog, UVM-based VIP
At DVCon 2015, a couple of our key customers shared their viewpoints on how they manage growing verification complexity. This video begins with Michael Sanie highlighting the Synopsys Verification Continuum, and several key technologies that currently address the industry’s need to “Shift-Left” for faster time-to-market. Later, Amol Bhinge of Freescale and Prashanth Gurunath of Xilinx […]
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Posted in AMBA, Audio, Camera, DDR, Debug, DesignWare, Display, HDMI, Interface Subsystems, LPDDR, Methodology, MIPI, Mobile SoC, PCIe, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, USB, UVM | Comments Off on Freescale and Xilinx Engineers: Managing SoC Verification Complexity
Here, Bernie DeLay explains the architecture and scope of the SystemVerilog source-code test suites included with the Synopsys VIP titles, and how they minimize the effort associated with protocol compliance testing. He uses a USB VIP in a DesignWare environment with AXI as an example http://bit.ly/1BHUgQg
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Posted in AMBA, DesignWare, Methodology, SystemVerilog, Test Suites, USB, UVM | Comments Off on SystemVerilog Protocol Compliance: Why Source-code Test Suites?
