The Cadence Academic Network is a university/industry
collaboration to support and improve Universities activities in the design of analog and digital semiconductors. The Computer Architecture Group of the University of Heidelberg plays a major role in this network, as we are the "Lead University for Functional Verification".
Activities
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Due to the lack of efficient design entry tools for complex state machines, we have developed our own Finite State Machine (FSM) design tool. FSMDesigner4 is a C++ based implementation for a FSM design tool with integrated Hardware Description Language (HDL) generation. It also has an interface to Cadence Simvision. The best is: you may use FSMDesigner4 for free! See the project page for more details: FSMDesigner4.
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The research activities of our group are mainly in the area of high performance interconnects. A selection of research projects can be found on our projects overview.
Together with AMD, we have established the HyperTransport Center of Excellence, which embraces our activities around the HyperTransport protocol.
As our complex designs require extensive verification, we are always employing state-of-the-art verification technologies. As Lead University for Functional Verification within the Cadence Academic Network, we are looking forward to spread verification knowledge throughout the network.
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History
Years before the Cadence Academic Network was formed, we already saw the need to improve education in the field of semi-custom/full-custom ASIC design. In order to do so, we established the
SEED project in 2002, which was a cooperation between Cadence and the Universities of Mannheim, Heidelberg and Kaiserslautern.
When the Cadence Academic Network formed, is was a natural choice to host the
first Cadence Academic Network (CAN) Day at our place in 2006. In the meantime, the CAN day has evolved to an academic track at the annual CDNLive conference.
Contact
For further information contact Sven Kapferer
Footnote
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