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    Atrenta at DAC: Fast Lint, IP Kit and More 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-09-2012 05:03 PM
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    Atrenta will have a new look this year at DAC. I'm not quite sure what that means but we'll all just have to go along and find out.

    They have three users talking about their use of Atrenta's tools. All 3 of these presentations are in the user-track poster session on Tuesday June 5th 12.30-1.30pm in room 105 (which is on the exhibit floor). ...
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    Use a SpyGlass to Look for Faults 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 05-02-2012 03:24 PM
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    There is a famous quote (probably attributed to Mark Twain who gets them all by default) "When looking for faults use a mirror not a spyglass." Of course if you have RTL of your IP or your design then using a SpyGlass is clearly the better way to go. But it is getting even better since there is a new enhanced release, SpyGlass 4.7.
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    Atrenta's Spring Cleaning Deal 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 04-16-2012 07:00 AM
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    Atrenta is having a special offer to let you "spring clean" your IP for free. They are providing two weeks of free access to the Atrenta IP kit starting from today, April 16th, until the end of May. During this period, qualified design groups in the US will be able to use the kit for two consecutive weeks to "spring clean" their third party or internally developed IP blocks at no cost.

    Atrenta’s IP Kit is also used by TSMC to quality soft IP for inclusion in the TSMC 9000 IP library. See my blog here. Plus it is TSMC's technology symposium tomorrow.

    The IP Kit generates two important reports: the Atrenta DashBoard and DataSheet.


    The Atrenta DashBoard provides a pass/fail status for all IP blocks. It shows the status ...
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    Clock Domain Crossing (CDC): Survey Says 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-06-2012 09:30 PM
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    I had no idea that there was a clock domain crossing (CDC) linkedIn group but indeed there is. Richard Brabant has set up a survey to see which tools people are using.


    The graph is somewhat confusing since, for example, Cadence Conformal is currently at zero but has a significant looking bar. But far and away ...
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    Not me. Who owns IP quality? 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-05-2012 02:32 PM
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    Now that the dominant approach to building an SoC is to get IP from a number of sources and assemble it into a chip, the issue of IP quality is more and more critical. A chip won't work if the IP doesn't work, but it is quite difficult to verify this because the SoC design team is not intimately familiar with the IP blocks since nobody on the team designed ...
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    Atrenta/TSMC Soft-IP Alliance: 10 companies make the grade 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 03-05-2012 05:30 AM  Number of Views: 826 
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    Last May, Atrenta and TSMC announced the Soft-IP Alliance Program which uses SpyGlass and a subset of its GuideWare reference methodology to implement TSMC's IP quality assessment program. TSMC requires all soft-IP providers to reach a minimum level of completeness before their IP is listed on TSMC online. Since TSMC is so dominant in the foundry ...
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    Needham growth conference 

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    Paul McLellan
    Published on 01-13-2012 04:00 AM
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    One of the fun things when a company gets big but is still private, like Atrenta, is that you start to get invited to events like the Needham Growth Conference that took place earlier this week in New York. When I ran Compass Design Automation, which at the time was about $55M in revenue, I remember ...
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