Semiconductor Design and Verification Articles
EDA Is Advancing – but Where Are the Women?
By Ishanee Bajpai – Senior Marketing Executive, Agnisys 1981 marked the beginning of EDA as an industry. Within a few years there were many companies specializing in EDA, each with a slightly different emphasis. As the industry has matured over the decades, it has revolutionized how electronic devices interact with the world. The EDA industry is booming with new technologies like machine learning and artificial intelligence, but there ...
Making Way For Register Specification Software
While more registers means more functionality and configurability, more is not always better. No one gives much thought to the heating, ventilation and air conditioning registers in the house–typically, two in each ...
The Ultimate Shift Left
Important observations from Einstein and New England’s ice traders.. Albert Einstein defined it well: “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” I have come across several ...
2015 Year End review – DV Challenges
Wow what a marvelous year 2015 has been to Agnisys, with full of events at the various technical exhibitions, new customers, new features and new products and not to forget – new partnership. It would be unfair to say ...
Does UVM sometimes make you feel stupid?
Somewhere in the deep trenches of a UVM based verification project, an engineer teeters on the verge of insanity. As the saying goes, the faint of heart need not attempt UVM based verification. But what makes it so ...
Semiconductor Register Specification: Shadow of a Shadow
So we have been working in the register specification space for a long time. We came out with the IDesignSpec tool around 2010. Five years of constant refinement and evolution based on the customer feedback has created ...
DVCon Europe Needs Automatic Register Verification and Generation
I feel like a bumblebee, going from the DVCon in US, to the next one in India to then to Europe. All this cross-pollination is exciting and enriching when experiencing the needs of the Semiconductor design engineers ...
DVCon India takes off!
DVCon had a solid start in Bangaluru, India. The audited attendee numbers will be coming in later, but we believe we had approximately 425+ delegates. That is truly amazing for the first year of the event! For me, it ...
Getting Ready for DVCon India 2014
It is penultimate day – the day before the big event! Preparing and launching the first ever DVCon India event feels like taxiing a plane down the runway, ready to take off. It is new; the design was replicated from ...