Posted on 04/27/2009 - 15:30
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
Those of you who have been reading Cool Verification since the early days will know that I'm a big proponent of the e language. The IEEE 1647 working group is looking for volunteers to help develop the next version of......
Posted on 04/18/2009 - 18:32
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
Those of you who attended SNUG in San Jose know that Cliff Cummings of Sunburst Design was a co-author on our award-winning paper on multi-stream scenarios in the VMM (honorable mention - technical committee award). Cliff (who won Best Paper......
Posted on 03/11/2009 - 21:30
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
Ok, I know what you’re all thinking… “JL, you haven’t even finished writing up DVCon yet and now you’re talking about SNUG?!” Yes, I know. Let’s just say an annoying stream of illnesses have taken their toll on the Gray......
Posted on 02/28/2009 - 18:31
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
DVCon, the first big verification-related conference of the year is now complete. Unlike in past years where I’ve spent quite a bit of time during the conference blogging about what’s been going on each day, I’ve decided this year (as......
Posted on 02/23/2009 - 19:01
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
It’s only Monday and already there have been several interesting press releases in the wonderful wide world of EDA. Here is a breakdown of what I’ve heard about so far. SpringSoft buys Certess This is, IMHO, the biggest news of......
Posted on 02/22/2009 - 22:42
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
It’s that time of the year again – DVCon starts this Tuesday, February 24 in San Jose. First off, here is the list of sessions I’m tentatively planning on attending. Tuesday Accellera Technical Committee Luncheon I’m skipping the tutorials on......
Posted on 02/03/2009 - 23:00
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
DVCon starts three weeks from today. Back in December, Brian Bailey commented that the DVCon program has too much of a focus on vendor-generated content. I know for my part I was too busy back in August to spend the......
Posted on 01/21/2009 - 21:48
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
Last week I wrote a post about the Mentor OVM/VMM compatibility layer, and subsequently posted a response to that post from Tom Fitzpatrick. Now, it’s my turn to respond. Tom made several points that I want to address. First, I......
Posted on 01/16/2009 - 15:18
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
I'd like to share with everyone a response to my last blog post on the Mentor OVM/VMM interoperability solution from Tom Fitzpatrick over at Mentor. By the way, there are some good comments on the original post as well, as......
Posted on 01/15/2009 - 08:26
by JL Gray
from the site Cool Verification
Last month Mentor and Cadence each released separate versions of compatibility layers to allow VMM code to interoperate with OVM code on their respective simulators. I’ve spent some time over the last couple of days reviewing the Mentor solution and......
