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	<title>Coverage is My Friend</title>
	
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		<title>Convergence Driven Coverage Modeling</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2012/01/convergence-driven-coverage-modeling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 16:39:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Say what??” my friend shot back when I asked him if he heard about the latest trend in coverage modeling called CDCM or Convergence Driven Coverage Modeling. I thoroughly enjoyed myself watching him scour the most obscure corners of his memory in search of something resembling my question. After all there weren’t too many coverage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Level Coverage</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/10/high-level-coverage/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:12:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/?p=294</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Unless you’ve completely isolated yourself from the wisdom of Verification and EDA pundits, you must have heard at some point that High Level Verification and High Level Synthesis are the way of the future. This has been true for at least the past 10 years and most likely is still going to be true for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Class (Coverage) Citizens</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/09/second-class-coverage-citizens/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 22:40:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=285</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Coverage turned into a revolutionary. We live in tumultuous times so this may not come as a surprise but seeing my friend pacing up and down the room, threatening imaginary adversaries was unnerving so I had to get to the bottom of it. What could possible turn my mild mannered friend into a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Silicon Billionaires</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/08/silicon-billionaires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 05:23:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=252</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There are many of them these days. They used to be multi-millionaires but you know how these things go. Now, before you get too excited to find out the latest scoop on the yacht sailing, private jet flying, Davos skiing crowd, remember that I don’t typically hang out with Larry, Steve or Mark, I hang [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plan the Coverage, Cover the Plan</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/07/plan-the-coverage-cover-the-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/07/plan-the-coverage-cover-the-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:27:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=244</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[These days it seems that you need to have a plan for everything. You need short, medium and long-term plans, you need backup and alternative plans, you need business and execution plans, you need a plan to eat (“I already have a dinner plan”), you need a plan to relax (“I’m working on my vacation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>D(esign) A(wesome) C(hips) is coming up!</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/06/design-awesome-chips-is-coming-up/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/06/design-awesome-chips-is-coming-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend Coverage and I will be in the temporary center of the Universe a.k.a. Conversation Central Wed between 3-4pm, stop by and chat with us!]]></description>
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		<title>Too Much of a Good Thing…</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/05/too-much-of-a-good-thing/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/05/too-much-of-a-good-thing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 May 2011 06:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=230</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The few of you who regularly read this blog, may have wondered what happened to my friend Coverage in the past 3 months. It turns out he has been on a worldwide quest to collect wisdom from verification experts near and far. The other day I bumped into him and he was clearly troubled. After [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Cover</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/02/cloud-cover/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/02/cloud-cover/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 22:19:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cloud computing]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[After a surprisingly long period of sunny skies, the clouds have returned to the Bay Area. Now, although some say that predicting when a chip will be ready for tape-out is akin to forecasting the next storm, I have not decided to subtly shift the topic of this blog to the exciting world of meteorology. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Test the Testbench?</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/01/test-the-testbench/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2011/01/test-the-testbench/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:48:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.synopsysoc.org/coverage/?p=187</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re nostalgically inclined like me, you probably fondly remember the times when testbenches were nothing but initial blocks with assignments and forces. Alas, those days are long gone. The serenity of the static pure Verilog testbenches has been replaced by the turbulence of the dynamic SystemVerilog ones where objects come and go as they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Tis the Season of Sharing (in Parallel)</title>
		<link>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2010/12/%e2%80%98tis-the-season-of-sharing-in-parallel/</link>
		<comments>http://blogs.synopsys.com/coverage/2010/12/%e2%80%98tis-the-season-of-sharing-in-parallel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Dec 2010 18:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Seibulescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is once again that time of the year when I panic. What gifts, for whom, do they even need them, what if I don’t, etc.  I am naturally always on the lookout for some good advice and so I asked my friend to share some wisdom. “I give everybody the gift of coverage of [...]]]></description>
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