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ba AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profiles: Addressing The Challenge By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 09 Jul 2019 16:54:00 GMT Modern systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) continue to increase in complexity, adding more components and calculation power to accommodate new performance-hungry applications such as machine learning and autonomous driving. With increased number of SoC components, such as CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and I/O devices, comes increased demand to correctly model interoperability of various components. Traditional simulation of complex systems requires accurate models of all components comprising the system and normally results in very long simulation times. A better way is to create a set of typical traffic profiles which describe behavior of system’s masters and slaves. Such profiles should be abstract to be applied to various protocols and interfaces and be portable to be applied throughout different SoC design and verification cycles. To address the challenges outlined above, Arm has recently announced availability of the AMBA® Adaptive Traffic Profiles (AMBA ATP) specification which lays foundation of a new synthetic traffic framework. The AMBA ATP specification includes detailed information of various transaction types and timing characteristics of those transactions. The traffic profiles defined in the specification are abstract in nature and thus could be used to generate stimuli for various standard AMBA protocols and in various environments such as RTL-based simulation, FPGA prototyping and final SoC verification. The traffic profiles outlined in the specification include a set of parameters to define timing relationships between transactions as well as timing relationships within individual transactions. Even though the traffic profile represents the behavior of a single agent it could be applied either in a concurrent manner (e.g. write and read traffic profiles running in parallel) or in a sequential manner (e.g. when one traffic completes before the next one start). Moreover, when simulating a reasonably complex system, it is possible to coordinate traffic profiles generated by multiple components. While providing abstract definition of traffic profiles, the AMBA ATP specification focuses on the use of traffic profiles with an AMBA AXI interface, outlining signaling, timing relationships between different transaction phases and between different transactions. The same application principles could be used to map the abstract traffic profiles to other AMBA protocols such as AMBA5 CHI protocol. To facilitate adoption of the AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profiles, Cadence has recently announced availability of SystemVerilog UVM ATP Sequence Layer which automatically implements mapping of an abstract ATP traffic to AMBA protocol specific traffic, generated by Cadence AMBA Verification IP. The ATP layer is implemented as a SystemVerilog UVM virtual sequence with the sequence item including all ATP transaction parameters as defined in the specification. Using the provided sequence infrastructure, users can write tests to define and coordinate traffic profiles for various components in the system. The ATP Layer automatically converts the abstract traffic profile into AMBA protocol-specific traffic, e.g., AMBA5 CHI protocol traffic. A sample code below, shows an example of a read profile translated by Cadence ACE Verification IP in ACE protocol traffic. `uvm_do_with(ace_atp_vseq, {ace_atp_vseq.agentId == agent_id; // ATP agent id ace_atp_vseq.atpDirection == ATP_READ; // direction of bursts issued by virtual sequence ace_atp_vseq.startAddress == start_address; // start of address range being accessed ace_atp_vseq.endAddress == end_address; // end of address range being accessed ace_atp_vseq.atpDomain == atp_domain; // domain to use for transactions ace_atp_vseq.addressPattern == ATP_SEQUENTIAL; // address pattern ace_atp_vseq.transactionSize == 64; // number of bytes in each burst ace_atp_vseq.dataSize == 4; // number of bytes in each transfer ace_atp_vseq.rate == 150.0/(50.0); // requestedBandwidth / clkFrequency ace_atp_vseq.start == ATP_EMPTY; // start condition of the ATP FIFO ace_atp_vseq.full == 128; // full level of the ATP FIFO ace_atp_vseq.numOfTransactions == 500; // number of bursts issued by this sequence ace_atp_vseq.ARTV == 2; // sub-transaction delay ace_atp_vseq.RBR == 3; // sub-transaction delay }); In addition to the ATP Layer for Cadence Simulation-Based AMBA Verification IP, Cadence supports the ATP functionality in Acceleration-Based AMBA Verification IP. For detailed information about ATP support in Cadence Simulation-Based and Acceleration-Based Verification IP, visit ip.cadence.com. Full Article Adaptive Traffic Profiles Performance modeling AMBA ATP
ba How to Verify Performance of Complex Interconnect-Based Designs? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sun, 14 Jul 2019 15:43:00 GMT With more and more SoCs employing sophisticated interconnect IP to link multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP functions, the designs are enabling a new generation of low-power servers and high-performance mobile devices. The complexity of the interconnects and their advanced configurability contributes to already formidable design and verification challenges which lead to the following questions: While your interconnect subsystem might have a correct functionality, are you starving your IP functions of the bandwidth they need? Are requests from latency-critical initiators processed on time? How can you ensure that all applications will receive the desired bandwidth in steady-state and corner use-cases? To answer these questions, Cadence recommends the Performance Verification Methodology to ensure that the system performance meets requirements at the different levels: Performance characterization: The first level of verification aims to verify the path-to-path traffic measuring the performance envelope. It targets integration bugs like clock frequency, buffer sizes, and bridge configuration. It requires to analyze the latency and bandwidth of design’s critical paths. Steady state workloads: The second level of verification aims to verify the master-by-master defined loads using traffic profiles. It identifies the impact on bandwidth when running multi-master traffic with various Quality-of-Service (QoS) settings. It analyzes the DDR sub-system’s efficiency, measures bandwidth and checks whether masters’ QoS requirements are met. Application specific use cases: The last level of verification simulates the use-cases and reaches the application performance corner cases. It analyzes the master-requested bandwidth as well as the DDR sub-system’s efficiency and bandwidth. Cadence has developed a set of tools to assist customers in performance validation of their SoCs. Cadence Interconnect Workbench simplifies the setup and measurement of performance and verification testbenches and makes debugging of complex system behaviors a snap. The solution works with Cadence Verification IPs and executes on the Cadence Xcelium® Enterprise Simulator or Cadence Palladium® Accellerator/Emulator, with coverage results collected and analyzed in the Cadence vManager Metric-Driven Signoff Platform. To verify the performance of the Steady State Workloads, Arm has just released a new AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profile (ATP) specification which describes AMBA abstract traffic attributes and defines the behavior of the different traffic profiles in the system. With the availability of Cadence Interconnect Workbench and AMBA VIP support of ATP, early adopters of the AMBA ATP specification can begin working immediately, ensuring compliance with the standard, and achieving the fastest path to SoC performance verification closure. For more information on the AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profile, you can visit Dimitry's blog on AMBA Adaptive Traffic Profiles: Addressing The Challenge. More information on Cadence Interconnect Workbench solution is available at Cadence Interconnect Solution webpage. Thierry Full Article Verification IP Interconnect Workbench Interconnect Validator SoC Performance modeling AMBA ATP ARM System Verification
ba Dileep Kumar and Saira Banu By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2007-11-22T07:48:00+00:00 Who used to be known as Dileep Kumar, and is now married to Saira Banu? Workoutable © 2007 IndiaUncut.com. All rights reserved. India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic Full Article
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ba Here Is Why the Indian Voter Is Saddled With Bad Economics By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2019-02-03T03:54:17+00:00 This is the 15th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. It’s election season, and promises are raining down on voters like rose petals on naïve newlyweds. Earlier this week, the Congress party announced a minimum income guarantee for the poor. This Friday, the Modi government released a budget full of sops. As the days go by, the promises will get bolder, and you might feel important that so much attention is being given to you. Well, the joke is on you. Every election, HL Mencken once said, is “an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” A bunch of competing mafias fight to rule over you for the next five years. You decide who wins, on the basis of who can bribe you better with your own money. This is an absurd situation, which I tried to express in a limerick I wrote for this page a couple of years ago: POLITICS: A neta who loves currency notes/ Told me what his line of work denotes./ ‘It is kind of funny./ We steal people’s money/And use some of it to buy their votes.’ We’re the dupes here, and we pay far more to keep this circus going than this circus costs. It would be okay if the parties, once they came to power, provided good governance. But voters have given up on that, and now only want patronage and handouts. That leads to one of the biggest problems in Indian politics: We are stuck in an equilibrium where all good politics is bad economics, and vice versa. For example, the minimum guarantee for the poor is good politics, because the optics are great. It’s basically Garibi Hatao: that slogan made Indira Gandhi a political juggernaut in the 1970s, at the same time that she unleashed a series of economic policies that kept millions of people in garibi for decades longer than they should have been. This time, the Congress has released no details, and keeping it vague makes sense because I find it hard to see how it can make economic sense. Depending on how they define ‘poor’, how much income they offer and what the cost is, the plan will either be ineffective or unworkable. The Modi government’s interim budget announced a handout for poor farmers that seemed rather pointless. Given our agricultural distress, offering a poor farmer 500 bucks a month seems almost like mockery. Such condescending handouts solve nothing. The poor want jobs and opportunities. Those come with growth, which requires structural reforms. Structural reforms don’t sound sexy as election promises. Handouts do. A classic example is farm loan waivers. We have reached a stage in our politics where every party has to promise them to assuage farmers, who are a strong vote bank everywhere. You can’t blame farmers for wanting them – they are a necessary anaesthetic. But no government has yet made a serious attempt at tackling the root causes of our agricultural crisis. Why is it that Good Politics in India is always Bad Economics? Let me put forth some possible reasons. One, voters tend to think in zero-sum ways, as if the pie is fixed, and the only way to bring people out of poverty is to redistribute. The truth is that trade is a positive-sum game, and nations can only be lifted out of poverty when the whole pie grows. But this is unintuitive. Two, Indian politics revolves around identity and patronage. The spoils of power are limited – that is indeed a zero-sum game – so you’re likely to vote for whoever can look after the interests of your in-group rather than care about the economy as a whole. Three, voters tend to stay uninformed for good reasons, because of what Public Choice economists call Rational Ignorance. A single vote is unlikely to make a difference in an election, so why put in the effort to understand the nuances of economics and governance? Just ask, what is in it for me, and go with whatever seems to be the best answer. Four, Politicians have a short-term horizon, geared towards winning the next election. A good policy that may take years to play out is unattractive. A policy that will win them votes in the short term is preferable. Sadly, no Indian party has shown a willingness to aim for the long term. The Congress has produced new Gandhis, but not new ideas. And while the BJP did make some solid promises in 2014, they did not walk that talk, and have proved to be, as Arun Shourie once called them, UPA + Cow. Even the Congress is adopting the cow, in fact, so maybe the BJP will add Temple to that mix? Benjamin Franklin once said, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” This election season, my friends, the people of India are on the menu. You have been deveined and deboned, marinated with rhetoric, seasoned with narrative – now enter the oven and vote. © 2007 IndiaUncut.com. All rights reserved. India Uncut * The IU Blog * Rave Out * Extrowords * Workoutable * Linkastic Full Article
ba Interaction between Innovus and Virtuoso through OA database By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 14:32:45 GMT Hello,I created a floorplan view in Virtuoso ( it contains pins and blockages). I am trying to run PnR in Innovus for floorplan created in Virtuoso. I used set vars(oa_fp) "Library_name cell_name view_name" to read view from virtuoso. I am able to see pins in Innovus but not the blockages. Can i know how do i get the blockages created in virtuoso to Innovus. Regards,Amuu Full Article
ba New Memory Estimator Helps Determine Amount of Memory Required for Large Harmonic Balance Simulations By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:24:00 GMT Hi Folks, A question that I've often received from designers, "Is there a method to determine the amount of memory required before I submit a job? I use distributed processing and need to provide an estimate before submitting jobs." The answer...(read more) Full Article HB Spectre RF MMSIM spectreRF harmonic balance memory estimator
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ba hiCreateAppForm with scrollbars and attachmentList By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:20:36 GMT Hello, I have created an appForm with the following attachmentList and size: ?attachmentList list(hicLeftPositionSet | hicRightPositionSet ; field 1 hicLeftPositionSet | hicRightPositionSet ; field 2etc. ?initialSize 800:800 ?minSize 800:800 ?maxSize 1600:800 If I reduce the minimum y-size (?minSize 800:200), scrollbars are not inserted, unless I remove the attachmentList constraints. Is it possible to have both scrollbars and "hicLeftPositionSet | hicRightPositionSet"? Thank you, Best regards, Aldo Full Article
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ba Celebrating Five Years of Performance-Optimized Arm-Based SoCs: Now including AMBA5 By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Oct 2017 22:05:00 GMT It’s been quite a long 5-year journey building and deploying Performance Analysis, Verification, and Debug capabilities for Arm-based SoCs. We worked with some of the smartest engineers on the planet. First with the engineers at Arm, with whom we...(read more) Full Article iwb interconnect amba5 Interconnect Workbench Palladium Performance Analysis AMBA CoreLink xcelium ARM
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ba Specman’s Callback Coverage API By community.cadence.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:30:00 GMT 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... [[ Click on the title to access the full blog on the Cadence Community site. ]] Full Article
ba Specman’s Callback Coverage API By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:30:00 GMT 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. Recognize cases when the test continues to run long after it already reached its coverage goal. 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 should1. 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”: Callback API has almost no performance penalty while scan_cover API does. 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). 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: Define a struct inheriting cover_sampling_callback (cover_cb_save_data below) 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. 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(). 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_dataextend 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 Full Article Specman/e Specman coverage engine coverage Specman e specman elite Coverage Driven Verification
ba Sweep harmonic balance (hb) realibility (aging) simulation By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 05 May 2020 17:22:25 GMT hi everyone, i'm trying to create a netlist for aging simulation. i would like to simulate how power, Gain and PAE (efficiency) are inlfuenced after 3 hours i would be grateful if someone can correct my syntax in the netlist since i'm trying to make a sweep HB simulation where the input power is the parameter. i did it without any error for the sp (S parameters) simulation. you can see the images for both sp and hb simulation netlists. (from left to right: sp aging netlist; hb aging netlist) i will be grateful if someone can provide me some syntax advices. thanks, best regards Full Article
ba Compare the database footprint with library footprint -Skill By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 05:34:49 GMT I would like to generate the comparison report of database footprint with library footprint if any mismatch available. Is there a way to take if it possible means can anyone please guide me or share me the skill code please. Thanks, Pradeep Full Article
ba How to force the garbage collection By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Thu, 05 Mar 2020 03:31:57 GMT I have a script to handle many polys in memory in allegro. But after the completion of the script, I run the axlPolyMemUse(), it reports (31922 0 0 55076 252482) Seems too many polys are still in the memory,and they are not being used. So how to delete these polys from the memory? And reclaim the memory? BTW. I have no skill dev license. So gc() function doesn't work. Thanks. Full Article
ba axlShapeAutoVoid not voiding Backdrill shapes By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:49:44 GMT Hi all, I am creating shapes on plane layers for a coupon and want to void them using axlShapeAutoVoid() The shapes are attached to a symbol. I've tried using axlShapeAutoVoid, but this only voids the pins, not the route keepouts created by nc_backdrill. I also tried selecting the shape, individually, then running axlShapeAutoVoid. That was unsuccessful, also. planeShapes is a list of shapes I created. The code for voiding: ;run backdrill to get route keepouts axlShell("setwindow pcb;backdrill setup ;setwindow form.nc_backdrill;FORM nc_backdrill apply ;FORM nc_backdrill close") foreach(sHape planeShapes axlShapeAutoVoid(car(sHape)) ) Full Article
ba Here Is Why the Indian Voter Is Saddled With Bad Economics By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: 2019-02-03T03:54:17+00:00 This is the 15th installment of The Rationalist, my column for the Times of India. It’s election season, and promises are raining down on voters like rose petals on naïve newlyweds. Earlier this week, the Congress party announced a minimum income guarantee for the poor. This Friday, the Modi government released a budget full of sops. As the days go by, the promises will get bolder, and you might feel important that so much attention is being given to you. Well, the joke is on you. Every election, HL Mencken once said, is “an advance auction sale of stolen goods.” A bunch of competing mafias fight to rule over you for the next five years. You decide who wins, on the basis of who can bribe you better with your own money. This is an absurd situation, which I tried to express in a limerick I wrote for this page a couple of years ago: POLITICS: A neta who loves currency notes/ Told me what his line of work denotes./ ‘It is kind of funny./ We steal people’s money/And use some of it to buy their votes.’ We’re the dupes here, and we pay far more to keep this circus going than this circus costs. It would be okay if the parties, once they came to power, provided good governance. But voters have given up on that, and now only want patronage and handouts. That leads to one of the biggest problems in Indian politics: We are stuck in an equilibrium where all good politics is bad economics, and vice versa. For example, the minimum guarantee for the poor is good politics, because the optics are great. It’s basically Garibi Hatao: that slogan made Indira Gandhi a political juggernaut in the 1970s, at the same time that she unleashed a series of economic policies that kept millions of people in garibi for decades longer than they should have been. This time, the Congress has released no details, and keeping it vague makes sense because I find it hard to see how it can make economic sense. Depending on how they define ‘poor’, how much income they offer and what the cost is, the plan will either be ineffective or unworkable. The Modi government’s interim budget announced a handout for poor farmers that seemed rather pointless. Given our agricultural distress, offering a poor farmer 500 bucks a month seems almost like mockery. Such condescending handouts solve nothing. The poor want jobs and opportunities. Those come with growth, which requires structural reforms. Structural reforms don’t sound sexy as election promises. Handouts do. A classic example is farm loan waivers. We have reached a stage in our politics where every party has to promise them to assuage farmers, who are a strong vote bank everywhere. You can’t blame farmers for wanting them – they are a necessary anaesthetic. But no government has yet made a serious attempt at tackling the root causes of our agricultural crisis. Why is it that Good Politics in India is always Bad Economics? Let me put forth some possible reasons. One, voters tend to think in zero-sum ways, as if the pie is fixed, and the only way to bring people out of poverty is to redistribute. The truth is that trade is a positive-sum game, and nations can only be lifted out of poverty when the whole pie grows. But this is unintuitive. Two, Indian politics revolves around identity and patronage. The spoils of power are limited – that is indeed a zero-sum game – so you’re likely to vote for whoever can look after the interests of your in-group rather than care about the economy as a whole. Three, voters tend to stay uninformed for good reasons, because of what Public Choice economists call Rational Ignorance. A single vote is unlikely to make a difference in an election, so why put in the effort to understand the nuances of economics and governance? Just ask, what is in it for me, and go with whatever seems to be the best answer. Four, Politicians have a short-term horizon, geared towards winning the next election. A good policy that may take years to play out is unattractive. A policy that will win them votes in the short term is preferable. Sadly, no Indian party has shown a willingness to aim for the long term. The Congress has produced new Gandhis, but not new ideas. And while the BJP did make some solid promises in 2014, they did not walk that talk, and have proved to be, as Arun Shourie once called them, UPA + Cow. Even the Congress is adopting the cow, in fact, so maybe the BJP will add Temple to that mix? Benjamin Franklin once said, “Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.” This election season, my friends, the people of India are on the menu. You have been deveined and deboned, marinated with rhetoric, seasoned with narrative – now enter the oven and vote. The India Uncut Blog © 2010 Amit Varma. All rights reserved. Follow me on Twitter. Full Article
ba Is it possible to get a diff between two coverage databases in IMC? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Tue, 10 Mar 2020 11:33:50 GMT I'm in the process of weeding a regression test list. I have a coverage database from the full regression list and would like to diff it with the coverage database from the new reduced regression test list. If possible I would than like to trace back any buckets covered with the full list, but not with the partial list, into the original tests that covered them. Is that possible using IMC? if not, is it possible to do from Specman itself? (Note that we're not using vManager) Thanks, Avidan Full Article
ba Allegro design entry DHL, pin swaps , export without exporting constraints, back annotate. By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 06 May 2020 14:49:01 GMT Hi, I have a new customer that uses Allegro Design entry HDL for the schematic and have a few questions. 1. How do you get pin/gate swaps into the symbols in the schematic ? 2. How do you transfer them to the pcb editor ? 3. How do you back annotate the swaps from the pcb editor to the schematic ? 4. How do you stop the export/Import physical from updating the constraints in the pcb file ? Full Article
ba Extracting 1dB bandwidth from parametric sweep-DFT results By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Wed, 22 Apr 2020 18:55:50 GMT Hi all, I am using ADE assembler. I ran transient simulation and swept the input frequency (Fin) of the circuit. And I use Spectrum Measurement to return a value of the fundamental tone magnitude (Sig_fund) for each sweep point. Previously, I use "plot across design points" to plot both "Fin" and "Sig_fund", and then use "Y vs Y" to get a waveform of Sig_fund vs Fin. Measure the 1dB Bandwidth with markers. Can I realized above measurement with an expression in "output setup" ? And how? I know to set the "Eval type" to "sweep" to process the data across sweep points. But here, it has to return an interpolated value from "Fin" with a criteria "(value(calcVal("Sig_fund" 0) - 1)". I am not sure whether it can be done in ADE assembler. Thanks and regards, Yutao Full Article
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