The Delaware Department of Agriculture announced today that they have hired a new State Apiarist, Meghan McConnell, a native of Millville, NJ. In her position, Meghan will be inspecting bee colonies, conducting surveys for the presence of honey bee parasites, and is responsible for securing samples of suspect colonies to determine suitable measures to control and/or eradicate disease.

Agency: CSD Closing Date: 5/13/2020

With increasing interest in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), many SAS Users want to know what can be done for Visual Analytics reports. In this article, I will explain how to use Python and SAS Viya REST APIs to extract a report from a SAS Viya environment and import it into another environment.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery – Using Python and REST APIs for SAS Visual Analytics reports was published on SAS Users.

The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) is advising Delaware residents that it is participating in a multi-state investigation into an outbreak of severe pulmonary disease reported across the country. As of today, 33 states, including Delaware, have reported possible cases of lung illnesses associated with use of e-cigarette products (e.g., devices, liquids, refill pods, and cartridges). While there are no confirmed cases in Delaware at this time, DPH is currently investigating three possible cases among Delaware residents.

The Delaware Division of Public Health (DPH) continues to participate in a multi-state investigation into an outbreak of severe pulmonary disease reported across the country. As of today, 38 states, including Delaware, have reported cases of lung injury associated with use of e-cigarette products (e.g., devices, liquids, refill pods, and cartridges).

Currently in Delaware, there are 11 cases of vaping-related lung injury that meet the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) case definition as either probable or confirmed. Additionally, DPH announced today that one of the cases associated with this outbreak involves an individual who died.

With increasing interest in Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD), many SAS Users want to know what can be done for Visual Analytics reports. In this article, I will explain how to use Python and SAS Viya REST APIs to extract a report from a SAS Viya environment and import it into another environment.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery – Using Python and REST APIs for SAS Visual Analytics reports was published on SAS Users.

The Skoda Superb, as well as the Rapid, will be facelifted models while the Karoq is an all-new offering that might be brought in limited numbers.

Trade, import and export for MSMEs: For India to benefit from the relocation of factories and companies from China, the MSME sector is likely to play a key role. This is particularly for food product manufacturing sector where India lacks competitiveness in exports.

You may park a portion of your funds in a high-rated liquid fund while you wait for the current volatility in the markets to play out

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You may avoid double taxation on your income by claiming tax relief if India has signed the Double Taxation Avoidance Treaty (DTAA) with the country of your residence.

The year 2020 is not going to be a year to forget. Understanding the nuances and re-learning the basics is a good thing to do.

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Emerging from the desert like a giant steel squid, Abu Dhabi’s new airport terminal is starting to take shape.

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Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources than before. This increases the need to optimize the regression while not compromising on coverage. Some advanced...

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Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources than before. This increases the need to optimize the regression while not compromising on coverage.

Some advanced customers of Specman use Machine Learning based solutions to optimize the regressions while some use simpler solutions. Based on a request of an advanced customer, we added a new Coverage API in Specman 19.09 called Coverage Callback. In 20.03, we have further enhanced this API by adding more options. Now there are two Coverage APIs that provide coverage information during the run (the old scan_cover API and this new Callback API). This blog presents these two APIs and compares between them while focusing on the newer one.

Before we get into the specifics of each API, let’s discuss what is common between these APIs and why we need them. Typically, people observe the coverage model after the test ends, and get to know the overall contribution of the test to the coverage. With these two APIs, you can observe the coverage model during the test, and hence, get more insight into the test progress.

Are you wondering about what you can do with this information? Let’s look at some examples.

1. Recognize cases when the test continues to run long after it already reached its coverage goal.
2. View the performance of the coverage curve. If a test is “stuck” at the same grade for a long time, this might indicate that the test is not very good and is just a waste of resource.

These analyses can be performed in the test itself, and then a test can decide to either stop the run, or change something in it configuration, or – post run. You can also present them visually for some analysis, as shown in the blog: Analyze Your Coverage with Python.

scan_cover API (or “Scanning the Coverage Model”)

With this API you can get the current status for any cover group or item you are interested in at any point in time during the test (by calling scan_cover()). It is very simple to use; however it has performance penalty. For getting the coverage grade of any cover group during the test, you should
1. Trigger the scan_cover at any time when you want the coverage model to be scanned.
2. Implement the scan_cover related methods, such as start_item() and end_bucket(). In these methods, you can query the current grade of group/item/bucket.
The blog mentioned earlier: Analyze Your Coverage with Python describes the details and provides an example.

Callback API

The Callback API enables you to get a callback for a desired cover group(s), whenever it is sampled. This API also provides various query methods for getting coverage related information such as what the current sampled value is. So, in essence, it is similar to scan_cover API, but as the phrase says: “same same but different”:

1. Callback API has almost no performance penalty while scan_cover API does.
2. Callback API contains a richer set of query methods that provide a lot of information about the current sampled value (vs just the grade with scan_cover).
3. Using scan_cover API, you decide when you want to query the coverage information (you call scan_cover), while with the Callback API you query the coverage information when the coverage is sampled (from do_callback). So, scan_cover gives you more flexibility, but you do need to find the right timing for this call.

There is no absolute advantage of either of these APIs, this only depends on what you want to do.  

Callback API details

The Callback API is based on a predefined struct called: cover_sampling_callback. In order to use this API, you need to:

1. Define a struct inheriting cover_sampling_callback (cover_cb_save_data below)
   1. Extend the predefined do_callback() method. This method is a hook being called whenever any of the cover groups that are registered to the cover_sampling_callback instance is being sampled.
   2. From do_callback() you can access coverage data by using queries such as: is_currently_per_type(), get_current_group_grade() and get_current_cover_group() (as in the example below) and many more such as: get_relevant_group_layers() and get_simple_cross_sampled_bucket_name().
2. Register the desired cover group(s) to this struct instance using the register() method.

Take a look at the following code:

// Define a coverage callback.
// Its behavior – print to screen the current grade.
struct cover_cb_save_data like cover_sampling_callback {
    do_callback() is only {
       // In this example, we care only about the per_type grade, and not per_instance
       if is_currently_per_type() {           
            var cur_grade : real = get_current_group_grade();
            sys.save_data (get_current_cover_group().get_name(), cur_grade);
        };//if
    };//do_callback()
};// cover_cb_send_data


extend sys {
    !cb : cover_cb_save_data;

   // Instantiate the coverage callback, and register to it two of my coverage groups
    run() is also {
       cb  = new  with {
        var gr1:=rf_manager.get_struct_by_name("packet").get_cover_group("packet_cover");
        .register(gr1);
        var gr2:=rf_manager.get_struct_by_name("sys").get_cover_group("mem_cover");
       .register(gr2);
       };//new  
    };//run()

  save_data(group_name : string, group_grade : real) is {
        //here you either print the values to the screen, update a graph you show or save to a db 
  };// save_data
};//sys

In the blog Analyze Your Coverage with Python mentioned above, we show an example of how you can use the scan_cover API to extract coverage information during the run, and then use the Specman-Python API to display the coverage interactively during the run (using plotting Python library - matplotlib). If you find this usage interesting and you want to use the same example, by the Callback API instead of the scan_cover API, you can download the full example from GIT from here: https://github.com/efratcdn/cover_callback.

Specman Team

All engineers can enhance their mixed-signal low-power structural verification productivity by learning while doing with a PIEA RAK (Power Intent Export Assistant Rapid Adoption Kit). They can verify the mixed-signal chip by a generating macromodel for their analog block automatically, and run it through Conformal Low Power (CLP) to perform a low power structural check.  

The power structure integrity of a mixed-signal, low-power block is verified via Conformal Low Power integrated into the Virtuoso Schematic Editor Power Intent Export Assistant (VSE-PIEA). Here is the flow.

Applying the flow iteratively from lower to higher levels can verify the power structure.

Cadence customers can learn more in a Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) titled IC 6.1.5 Virtuoso Schematic Editor XL PIEA, Conformal Low Power: Mixed-Signal Low Power Structural Verification.

• To read the overview presentation, click on following link: PIEA Overview
• To download this PIEA RAK click on following link: PIEA RAK Download

The RAK includes Rapid Adoption Kit with demo design (instructions are provided on how to setup the user environment). It Introduces the Power Intent Export Assistant (PIEA) feature that has been implemented in the Virtuoso IC615 release.  The power intent extracted is then verified by calling Conformal Low Power (CLP) inside the Virtuoso environment.

• Last Update: 11/15/2012.
• Validated with IC 6.1.5 and CLP 11.1

The RAK uses a sample test case to go through PIEA + CLP flow as follows:

• Setup for PIEA
• Perform power intent extraction
• CPF Import: It is recommended to Import macro CPF, as oppose to designing CPF for sub-blocks. If you choose to import design CPF files please make sure the design CPF file has power domain information for all the top level boundary ports
• Generate macro CPF and design CPF
• Perform low power verification by running CLP

It is also recommended to go through older RAKs as prerequisites.

• Conformal Low Power, RTL Compiler and Incisive: Low Power Verification for Beginners
• Conformal Low Power: CPF Macro Models
• Conformal Low Power and RTL Compiler: Low Power Verification for Advanced Users

To access all these RAKs, visit our RAK Home Page to access Synthesis, Test and Verification flow

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Sumeet Aggarwal

There is no better way other than a self-help training kit -- (rapid adoption kit, or RAK) -- to demonstrate the Incisive Enterprise Simulator's IEEE 1801 / UPF low-power features and its usage. The features include:

• Unique SimVision debugging 
• Patent-pending power supply network visualization and debugging
• Tcl extensions for LP debugging
• Support for Liberty file power description
• Standby mode support
• Support for Verilog, VHDL, and mixed language
• Automatic understanding of complex feedthroughs
• Replay of initial blocks
• ‘x' corruption for integers and enumerated types
• Automatic understanding of loop variables
• Automatic support for analog interconnections

Mickey Rodriguez, AVS Staff Solutions Engineer has developed a low power UPF-based RAK, which is now available on Cadence Online Support for you to download.

• This rapid adoption kit illustrates Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) support for the IEEE 1801 power intent standard. 

Patent-Pending Power Supply Network Browser. (Only available with the LP option to IES)

• In addition to an overview of IES features, SimVision and Tcl debug features, a lab is provided to give the user an opportunity to try these out.

The complete RAK and associated overview presentation can be downloaded from our SoC and Functional Verification RAK page:

We are covering the following technologies through our RAKs at this moment:

Synthesis, Test and Verification flow
Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System and Sign-off Flow
Virtuoso Custom IC and Sign-off Flow
Silicon-Package-Board Design
Verification IP
SOC and IP level Functional Verification
System level verification and validation with Palladium XP

Please visit https://support.cadence.com/raks to download your copy of RAK.

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Happy Learning!

Sumeet Aggarwal and Adam Sherer

Wapiti is a web application vulnerability scanner. It will scan the web pages of a deployed web application and will fuzz the URL parameters and forms to find common web vulnerabilities.

Wapiti is a web application vulnerability scanner. It will scan the web pages of a deployed web application and will fuzz the URL parameters and forms to find common web vulnerabilities.

This is a proof of concept exploit that demonstrates the Microsoft Windows CryptoAPI spoofing vulnerability as described in CVE-2020-0601 and disclosed by the NSA.