Introducing Incisive® vManager™ for Verification Management and Planning

Cadence Design Systems, Inc.February 24, 2014

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• Verification planning and management (VPM) is the generic name of the user’s environment that…– Submits jobs to a simulation farm or various execution engine(s)– Collects execution results (runs, checks, coverage, status, results)– Analyses and optimizes the overall verification environment– Provides reports to management on project status and completion

• Cadence methodology for VPM is called “metric-driven verification”• Cadence tool for VPM is called Incisive vManager solutoin

What is Verification Management and Planning?

Simulationwith IES-XL

Formal with IFV or IEV

Accelerationwith PXP

Incisive vManager Solution

Other Tools…

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vManager History and Future

• Single user• Single project• Simulation centric• Functional coverage

• Multi-user• Multi-project• Multi-engine• Multi-analysis

2004 201410 Years of Innovation

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vManager Multi-User Feature

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vManager Multi-Project Feature

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vManager Multi-Engine Feature

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vManager Multi-Analysis Feature

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• Cadence Metric-Driven Verification Methodology• http://www.cadence.com/products/fv/Pages/mdv_flow.aspx

• Cadence Incisive vManager Solution• http://www.cadence.com/products/fv/vmanager/pages/defa

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