Semiconductor Design and Verification Articles
Not your Average UVM Testbench Generator – Unveiling at DAC 2019
By Louie De Luna, Agnisys Chief Product Evangelist Being so immersed in the work and technology, it’s easy to forget where we are in this technological revolution. Some of us didn’t really appreciate the impact of the internet until we held it in our hands and swiped to the next pages of seemingly infinite information. In the last decade, we saw how the automotive industry converted most of their mechanical systems into electronics and ...
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 ...
Setting the Stage for the Next Abstraction
By Louie De Luna, Agnisys Chief Product Evangelist As generations of designs evolved from a few hundred transistors to hundreds of billions, our industry abstracted the problem space from transistors to schematics to ...
Register Automation using Machine Learning
By Louie De Luna, Agnisys Director of Sales and Marketing Right after Google’s AlphaGo system defeated a human Go world champion in 2015, the hype of deep learning and machine learning (ML) was quickly assimilated into ...
Top 2018 Agnisys Resources
Every year we take a look back at the resources we’ve created to determine what you’ve found most useful. We invite you to take a look below at our top viewed and downloaded resources from 2018. RECORDED ...
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 ...
Musings from ARM TechCon Santa Clara 2015
The first day for exhibitors had lots of foot-traffic. Mostly casual onlookers, but a few who were genuinely interested in Agnisys. Since it was our first foray into ARM TechCon, it was good to meet new set of ...
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 ...
Questa® VIP validates IDesignSpec generated IP
In our domain, we automatically generate registers and memory interface which can interface with all the standard bus protocols. If we take a look at the AMBA®AXI4Lite bus protocol, it has different channels for ...
Semiconductor Data Sheet Automation – Just The Way You Want It
Moore’s law prediction about the increase in density of an SoC design continues to prove accurate with each advancement of technology. But, along with this, a new complexity takes shape in the form of documentation for ...