(iTers News) - Cadence Design Systems, Inc. has introduced an all-new Incisive vManager solution, a verification planning and management solution enabled by client/server technology to address the growing verification closure challenge driven by increasing design size and complexity. The Incisive vManager solution, with its metric-driven verification (MDV) methodology, improves verification productivity by 2X or greater over traditional methods by combining executable verification plans, coverage optimization techniques, collaborative management utilities, deep failure and coverage analysis, and clear visibility to see when to shift resources.

Part of the Cadence Incisive functional verification platform, the Incisive vManager solution utilizes commercial SQL database technology and enables broad scalability from small intellectual property (IP) projects to gigascale system-on-chip (SoC) designs. Additionally, to ensure SoC developers have a consistent methodology for design quality enhancements, the Incisive vManager solution supports several MDV extensions addressing applications including acceleration, low power and mixed-signal verification.

Incisive vManager Key Features

• Multi-user support: Allows unlimited simultaneous users for improved collaboration and better visibility into team-based verification


• Multi-engine support: Operates seamlessly with Incisive Enterprise Simulator, Incisive Formal Verifier and Palladium® XP Verification Computing Platform


• Multi-project capability: Enables multiple projects to be managed independently within the same environment—an industry first. Users can view project status, progress over time, and key metrics enabling verification signoff


• Multi-analysis feature: With the fully integrated Incisive Metrics Center, users can analyze coverage, test failures, perform failure triage, create and analyze executable plans, find coverage holes and design problems, all to determine focus areas to complete verification

“The move to gigascale SoC designs with larger and more dispersed design teams and increased time-to-market pressures has created new verification management challenges for companies,” said Andy Eliopoulos, vice president, research and development, Advanced Verification Solutions at Cadence. “With the Incisive vManager solution, Cadence is solving these challenges and launching a new era of verification management. For the first time, design teams will have the ability to support multiple users, better coordinate and control the verification process, and dramatically improve their productivity.”