Cadence Xcelium apps accelerate simulation-based verification
Summary
Cadence Design Systems has announced Xcelium Apps, a portfolio of domain-specific technologies implemented natively on the Cadence Xcelium Logic Simulator kernel that enable automotive, mobile and hyperscale design teams to achieve the highest verification performance. By mixing and matching Xcelium Apps, customers can achieve up to a 10X regression throughput improvement. • Machine Learning: The Xcelium Machine Learning (ML) App utilizes proprietary ML technology to reduce regression times by learning from previous regression runs and guiding the Xcelium randomisation kernel to either achieve the same coverage with significantly less simulation cycles or catch more bugs around specific coverage points of interest. • Power Playback: The Xcelium PowerPlayback App enables the massively parallel Xcelium replay of waveforms captured by Palladium® emulation onto a timing-annotated gate-level netlist for glitch-accurate power estimation of multi-billion gate SoC designs. “Xcelium Apps are the next step in the evolution of logic simulation performance,” said Paul Cunningham, Senior Vice President and General Manager of the System & Verification Group at Cadence.