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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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FD-SOI vs FinFET: Dan Hutcheson Re-Runs His Survey

Recently, the SOI Consortium held its annual Silicon Valley Symposium. I was only…

• 3 min read
FinFET , FD-SOI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Let's Have Fun with ADE Debugging – Part 1

Over the years, we have seen our customers’ usage of ICRPs increase dramatically…

• 9 min read
performance , ADE Explorer , ADE L , Virtuoso , ADE-XL , Virtuosity , Simulators , Custom IC Design , ICRP , ADE Assembler

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Why Did EDA Have a Hardware Business Model?

Business models are really important. Just ask any internet startup company that…

• 7 min read
term license , hardware , EDA , cadence cloud

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR20 and ICADV12.3 ISR20 Now Available

The IC6.1.7 ISR20 and ICADV12.3 ISR20 production releases are now available for download…

• 3 min read
IC , ISR20 , ICADV12.3 , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Verification

Speedup SystemVerilog UVM Debug Regression Time with Dynamic Test Load

Microsemi has been evaluating a unique feature in Xcelium System Verilog UVM Dynamic…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , Dynamic Test Load , Functional Verification , xcelium

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Imec Roadmap

I recently visited imec. For an overview of my day, see my earlier post If It's Tuesday…

• 7 min read
nanosheet , stco , 3nm , imec , gaa , FinFET , DTCO

The India Circuit

Indian Airports Go High Tech

No more printed tickets. Shorter queues at check-in counters. Humanoid robots walking…

• 3 min read
Kempegowda International Airport , aadhaar , Airports Authority of India , KIAL , KEMPA , Priyank Kharge

Verification

PCI-SIG Developer's Conference: What's New with Gen 5 and When Will it be Adopted…

The release of PCIe 4.0 rev 1.0 in October 2017 was anticlimactic after the announcement…

• 3 min read
controller IP , Verification IP , PCIe Gen4 , PHY , PCIe , PCIe Gen5 , verification

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Heinz Nixdorf's Legacy in Paderborn

I read somewhere that the largest computer museum in the world is the Heinz Nixdorf…

• 6 min read
paderborn , museum , heinz nixdorf museumsforum , nixdorf

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Deliverables Required for Successful SoC In…

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, YJ Patil explains the importance of having a…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP-XACT , Functional Verification , IP integration

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 11th to 15th 2018

https://youtu.be/IYm-CauwKTo Coming from Yerevan Armenia (camera Jack Darrow)…

• less than a min read
dac55 , chipestimate , Raspberry Pi , cloud , baumol's cost disease , FinFET , EUV , FD-SOI

Verification

RAK Attack: Verifying Power Intent for Low Power Mixed Signal SoCs

The wait is finally over—the Rapid Adoption Kit (RAK) for verifying the power intent…

• 2 min read
Low Power , Functional Verification , RAK , power intent , mixed signal

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A Computer Scientist Takes a Look at Mechanical Security

I wrote recently about visiting The Tech in San Jose. One of the exhibits showed…

• 8 min read
security , master key

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing a PCB in Harmony with Your 3D Extraction Expert

You know who we are talking about. The guy in the corner with all the PhDs hanging…

• 1 min read
SI , 3D EM , High Speed Structure Optimization , 3D EM HSSO , 3D EM High Speed Structure Optimizer , Signal Integrity , 3D , HSSO , Sigrity , System Serial Link , Allegro

Verification

App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part II - SystemVerilog …

Welcome back to a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we…

• 2 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , xcelium simulator

Breakfast Bytes

TI Flies Pegasus in the Clouds

Kyle Peavy of Texas Instruments reported on their experience with Pegasus, Cadence…

• 5 min read
Physical verification , CDNLive , pegasus , cloud , Texas Instruments

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Samsung Foundry Forum: 10, 8, 7, EUV, 5, 4, GAA, 3...

Last week was the Samsung Foundry Forum. Almost exactly a year ago, Samsung reorganized…

• 13 min read
3nm , Samsung , gaa , samsung foundry forum , sff , 5nm , 7nm , EUV

Verification

Empowering Generation - Range Generated Fields (RGF)

Specman constraints solver process consists of a series of reductions and assignments…

• 8 min read
Specman , Specman/e , Generation , e language , Constraints

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: How to Run a Multi-Technology Simulation (MTS)?

Are you looking for some hands-on experience with running multi-technology simulation…

• 3 min read
ADE Explorer , Explorer , Rapid Adoption Kit , Virtuoso , Spectre , ADE-XL , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Assembler , ADE Assembler
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