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Abstract: When it comes to debugging during emulation, engineers are forced to use multiple applications to ensure proper hardware signal data extraction and visualization. Learn from this webinar a leading edge technology that intelligently extracts data from the FPGA emulator to provide 100% signal visibility during emulation. This approach delivers up to 70% bandwidth savings in the critical emulator communication channel. Both dynamic and static probes from emulation can also be visualized in the Riviera-PRO waveform viewer preserving the original signal names and hierarchy paths and providing complete traceability to the design’s RTL source code. Play webinar   

Open Source - VHDL Verification Methodology (OS-VVM™) provides advanced verification capabilities to VHDL teams. Attendees will learn how to add functional coverage, constrained random test, and coverage driven random test to their current testbenches. OS-VVM has a straight-forward usage model that allows the addition of functional coverage, constrained random, and coverage driven random features to a testbench in part or in whole. This webinar demonstrates how the addition of Functional Coverage to testbenches is necessary - even with directed tests. Constrained Random or Coverage Driven randomization can be added when and where needed, and there is even the ability to mix directed, algorithmic, file-based, constrained random, and coverage driven random methods. OS-VVM is open source package based. It compiles under VHDL-2008 or VHDL-2002 (with minor adaptations, and has been produced as a joint effort between Aldec and SynthWorks, both companies committed to provide continued support to VHDL design community. Play webinar   

Modern industrial systems are faced with many key design challenges including: system complexity, real-time performance requirements, evolving standards, and rising costs. ASIC prototyping platforms allow designers to implement and verify functionality of industrial systems at-speed prior to silicon tape-out, saving money from costly re-spins. In this webinar, we demonstrate how to tackle industrial design applications with Aldec’s HES-7™, which supports ARM® Cortex™-A9 based designs by leveraging Xilinx® Zynq® All Programmable SoC. Play webinar   

Aldec's newly released FPGA-based prototyping platform, HES-7™, leverages Xilinx® Virtex®-7 FPGA. Xilinx has introduced a new Stacked Silicon Interconnect technology (SSI), enabling a single Virtex-7 to have 2M logic cells, making it the industry’s largest capacity FPGA. This webinar will provide an overview of modifications to previous Xilinx architecture and the structuring of SSI technology. The webinar will also present how the Virtex-7 benefits FPGA-based prototyping platforms, and will also provide an overview of HES-7 key features. Play webinar   

The majority of FPGA designers who are proficient in traditional HDLs might have heard about assertions, but haven’t had time to try them out. Designers should be aware that assertions are quickly becoming standard part of both design and verification process, so learning how to use them is a future necessity. This webinar provides quick and easy introduction to the basic ideas and applications of assertions: sequences, properties, assert and cover commands, etc. Practical examples are used both during presentation and live demonstration in the simulator. Play webinar   

With the latest FPGA technology advancements and release of high capacity devices such as Xilinx® Virtex®-7 and Altera® Stratix®-V, design teams face more challenges producing safe and clean HDL (RTL, FPGA) code. In this presentation, we will focus on the design techniques that will result in the code running most optimally on the large FPGA designs, and be free of timing and synchronization issues. Play webinar   

Abstract: Experienced users of VHDL simulation with testbenches appreciate additional layer of safety that Coverage Analysis gives them. But are all kinds of coverage equally beneficial? While Code Coverage is certainly useful, it really verifies quality of the testbench, not the design itself. In this webinar we will show how to improve quality of the design using Property Coverage and Functional Coverage (with help of OS-VVM). Play webinar   

Co-Webinar with Tanner. Abstract: Creating and verifying a mixed-signal IC design (a chip containing both analog and digital parts) is a challenge. SPICE based simulation provides the accuracy needed by the analog design but is too slow to deal with digital part. Event-driven digital simulation can handle digital portion, but fails when dealing with the analog design. The best method of solving this verification problem is to create a smart interface between the SPICE engine and the high-performance digital simulator. Play webinar   

Abstract: Modern digital designs reached sizes so huge that traditional, simplistic verification no longer works. Large number of design sources, multiple teams and tools using them, almost infinite stream of results they produce - all those factors create new management challenges. Our webinar will show how verification planning, simulation and regression management can be easily handled using Agnisys and Aldec tools.  Play webinar   

Abstract: The issue of securing information flow was very important in the past (mainly in diplomacy and military applications) and became even more important recently, with new applications such as banking (ATM transactions), on-line commerce (e-store transactions), media (pay-per-view contents) and hardware design (secure IP delivery). All those applications face one common problem nicely described in the old joke: the only truly secure information is the one that cannot be read by anybody. Both hardware designers and tool designers must find the balance between security and usability, which can be achieved only by implementing well tested algorithms and workflow. Using Aldec implementation of Secure IP Delivery as the vehicle, this presentation provides informative overview of recommended ciphers and methodologies that can be used by a wide, technical audience.  Play webinar