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VIP
Portfolio

Susan Peterson
Director, Verification IP Marketing

Why
y Cadence Verification IP?
Industrys Broadest, Most Capable IVIP Portfolio

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VIP
Portfolio

Greatest VIP Portfolio Breadth

Tec
chnolog
gical De
epth

Spanning Wireless, Wired, Consumer, Computer, Automotive protocols

Compliance Management System

Universal Verification Component

Assertion Based VIP
Transaction Based Acceleration VIP
SpeedBridgeTM VIP

Multi-language,
Open Verification Methodology

Built-in Metric Driven Verification

Standards Support

Whats
New?
Incisive Verification
Broadest
Verification
IP PortfolioIP Portfolio
35+ Industry Protocols

AHB
AHB AB-VIP
AXI
AXI
PCIAB-VIP
APB
PCI-X
PCIE

AMBA AHB

AMBA AXI

AMBA APB

OCP

ATAPI
SDXC

Growing to

OCP AB-VIP
Storage
MIPI CSI
MIPI DSISAS

Released

PMBus

1 consistent product
Fib Channel
Fibre
Ch
l

OCP SATA

MIPI SLIMbus
PCI
MIPI CSI
CAN
MIPI DSILIN
I2C
MIPI SLIMbus
JTAG
ATAPI
MIPI UniPro
SRIO
MIPIFibre
Di
DigRF
RF
Channel

SMBus

DDR3
Incisive
Verification
Bus / Interconnect
/
Memory
IP Portfolio

Enet
SATA
SAS

VIP
Portfolio

DDR2

USB

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Ethernet

1 flexible license
CAN

35+ VIP Communications

multiple protocols
LIN
protocols

JTAG

and technologies
HDMI

Display Port

Peripheral
SPI-4
USB 2.0

PCI Express

USB 3.0

PCI Express 3.0

Serial RapidIO

I 2C

Early Access

Coming Soon

UVC + ABVIP

HyperTransport
LPC

New Standards / New Versions

Cadence VIP Strategy

gy

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VIP

Lead in Emerging Protocol Verification

Portfolio

Standardization Process
Ratified Spec
IInitiator
iti t
(Proprietary
Design)

Standards Body
Formed
Specs Defined

IP Development
IP Integration
SoC Deployment

Joins at initiation
Drives standardization:

Creates design
g IP/VIP partnerships:
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p

;
;

;
;
;
;

Functional verification methodology

Pre-silicon
Pre
silicon compliance checklists

Development milestone alignment

Regular IP delivery and integration
Joint solution testing
Joint marketing

VIP Verification Capability Comparison

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Portfolio

C
Conventional
ti
l Commercial
C
i l VIP

Basic coverage

4 12
Weeks
Extra
Effort

Di t d tests
Directed
t t & structures
t
t
Basic assertions
Bus Functional Model

Te
echnolo
ogical D
Depth

User must manuallyy

supply capabilities
for verification

Automated Compliance
Management
niversal
System

U
OVM Multi-language Testbench
Verification
Interface
Complete Protocol Functional
CCoverage
omponent
Constrained
withRandom
Test Generation

C
Management
Bus
SFunctional
ystem Model

ompliance
Complete
Protocol Checking

No measure of verification closure

Everything supplied to users

Limited block to chip reuse

Built-in Metric-Driven Verification

Manual protocol compliance

Delivers 2-10x Greater Productivity

Compliance Management System (CMS)

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A t
Automatically
ti ll Achieves
A hi
High
Hi h Functional
F
ti
l Coverage
C

VIP
Portfolio

Automates
A
t
t compliance
li
verification
ifi ti and
d reporting
ti
Included with UVCs at no additional cost to user
Developed with leading protocol experts (e.g.,
(e g ARM,
ARM AMD)
Applicable to both Design IP and SOC developers

Executable representation of
verification objectives

Clear metrics report on

coverage
g grade
g
Compliance
Management System
Library of constrained random
tests to fill coverage map
Compliance
vPlan

Compliance
Test Suite

Compliance
Coverage
Model

Compliance
Directly correlated to
Checks and
protocol specification
Metrics

U
User
IInterface
f

CMS Success Story: ClearSpeed

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Metric-Driven Verification Improves Quality, Productivity and Predictability

VIP
Portfolio

Found DUT bugs faster: 4 in first day!

Dramatically increased PCI Express compliance

coverage
Taped out at 96% coverage
Significantly reduced respin risk

Major improvement in project management and

resource assignment
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using
i coverage, b
bugs, and
d
test failure metrics

M h iimproved
Much
d team communications
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For details visit:
http://www.cadence.com/rl/Resources/success_stories/clearspeed.pdf

With CMS our team leaders now

confidently report on verification
status in all functional areas
including coverage, bug rates and
test failures."

Mike Bartley
Test and Verification Manager

Incisive Verification IP Portfolio:

Strategic Summary
IVIP offers greatest protocol coverage
35+ protocols and growing
Available with one easy-to-use Portfolio license
Investing in emerging standards to stay ahead of the curve

IVIP offers easy access to advanced verification technology

Automated Compliance Management System (CMS)
Special enhancements for SoC integrators
Metric-driven implementation of the right technology for the job

Commitment to support of industry-wide

industry wide standards
Support for the Open Verification Methodology ecosystem
Support for standard languages

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VIP
Portfolio

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For more information, please contact:

Susan Peterson
S
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susanp@cadence.com
(303) 594-3844
594 3844

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