December 2025

Season's Greetings

In 2026, may you find a question that makes all the difference!

Did you know that movies started with a question, "Do all four of a horse's hooves leave the ground during a gallop?" Learn more

Tip of the Month

Checking whether a clocked comparator has an input-referred offset within a specified range

Can you write a checker that monitors a clocked comparator’s output while tolerating a finite input-referred offset? Learn more

Primitive of the Month

check_value

This primitive checks whether the difference between an input and a reference signal lies within a specified range. Learn more

XMODEL Release Updates

XMODEL 2025.12

Starting with this release, EQCHECK can generate a testbench that embeds checker primitives to validate equivalence between the circuit and the model. Learn more

Latest Issues

May 2026

Estimating Eye Openings and FFE/DFE Settings from Channel SBR

April 2026

Delay, Delay, Delay!

March 2026

EQCHECK, Adaptive Decision-Feedback Equalizer, and More

February 2026

XMODEL at DVCon US, Introducing EQCHECK, and More

January 2026

Generating Random Step Sequences for Stress-Testing, Measuring Single-Bit Responses, and More