By Ed Sperling

Mentor’s Dennis Brophy pitches the benefits—and long list of disciples—of OVM. In case you’ve forgotten, OVM is a highly compatible verification environment with VMM, whose supporters also pitch their own verification environment’s benefits. Funny how that works, isn’t it?

Need proof? Check out the blog from Synopsys’ Varun S. Verification Martial Arts. There’s lots of detail about Datastream Scoreboard Iterators, which is important in the VMM world.

Cadence’s Jason Andrews takes a look at models and what engineers really need to know. Hint: Not everything is being modeled, and it doesn’t look like it will be anytime soon.

John Cooley sheds some light on Magma’s super-secret project called Tekton and what’s behind all the whispers. It’s a fine piece of sleuthing and putting together pieces of a puzzle.

Harry Gries, aka the ASIC guy, takes a look at all the ways to use engineering terminology to optimize them for search engines while combining it with a grade school writing assignment. This is so far out there that it’s definitely worth a look.

Speaking of strange, why is GlobalFoundries exhibiting at Mobile World Congress? Daniel Nenni has a point there—and a good explanation.

You’ve heard of inline skates. But how about inline code? Mentor’s Colin Walls lifts the covers on ways to improve performance by reducing the amount of software. This is always welcome advice.

Cadence’s Richard Goering looks at a DVCon presentation by Brian Bailey that should be of prime interest to a lot of system-designers, namely how to get high-level modeling into a real flow. This is an important topic, and Mr. Bailey deserves a pat on the back for suggesting ways to fill in the gaps. Now if only the RTL folks would starting using this stuff. This is a nice reporting job, too, by Goering.

And if you’ve attended DVCon this year, you might want to know how this compares with last year. Synopsys’ Karen Bartleson is offering some upbeat news—and it’s about time. Although if you’ve been driving in Silicon Valley lately, you’re probably aware that the traffic has gone up again, and it isn’t just road repair projects funded by federal stimulus dollars.

Tags: Cadence, GlobalFoundries, Magma, Mentor Graphics, Synopsys

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