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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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DDR5 IP Test Chip Operates with Micron Prototype DRAM at 4400 MT/s

The DDR5 standard has not been finalized by JEDEC, and they are very strict about…

• 4 min read
ddr5 , DDR4 , TSMC , DRAM , DDR , 7nm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Tensilica DSPs, Sensors, and Neural Networks

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last in a three-part series, Robert…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , sensor fusion , lidar , radar , camera , ADAS

Verification

How We Developed and Tested a Prototype DDR5 Interface in Silicon Based on a Preliminary…

We’re thrilled to have announced our prototype 7nm DDR5 IP silicon based on a preliminary…

• 2 min read
DDR Controller , Verification IP , ddr5 , DDR4 , TSMC Tech Symposium , TSMC , DDR , DDR PHY

Breakfast Bytes

WoW! TSMC Sticks Whole Wafers Together

Today it is the TSMC Technology Symposium. As always, Cadence is making several announcements…

• 5 min read
wow , 3DIC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Preventing Redundant Simulations

I'm sure we all might have come across this situation - Not being sure if something…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Custom IC Design , Assembler , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Use Colin Thomson's New RAK to Learn How Legacy Designs Can be Made XL…

Are you bringing in a Layout L design, or a design made outside of Virtuoso into…

• 3 min read
Layout XL-compliance , Virtuosity , Layout design , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Layout Editing , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

AMI for DDR5 Made Easy

In a post last week, I covered IBIS and AMI. One big change that is happening is…

• 5 min read
ddr5 , DDR4 , ami builder , DRAM , Sigrity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Reduce Time-to-Market for Your System-level Designs Using PSpice Systems Option

Looking for a technology to simulate analog/digital mix-signal electronics alongside…

• 2 min read
co-simulation , PSPICE , System-Level Design , OrCAD

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 Now Available

The IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 production releases are now available for download…

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

Breakfast Bytes

Some Real Russian Hacking

Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin were in Moscow for a PHDays (positive hacking…

• 7 min read
security , rsa conference , hbo , rsa

Breakfast Bytes

Qualcomm and Arm Drink Their Own Champagne

Everyone in EDA is familiar with the phenomenon where the internal testing of a tool…

• 5 min read
arm server , Qualcomm , xcelium , ARM

The India Circuit

5 Reasons to Submit an Abstract for CDNLive India

Call for Presentations (CFP) for CDNLive India is now open! While this is something…

• 2 min read
CDNLive India , CDNLive

Breakfast Bytes

RSA Cryptographers' Panel

The RSA Conference is the biggest conference in security. This year there are 50…

• 11 min read
quantum computing , security , rsa conference , rsa , cryptography , Spectre

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Sensors: Concepts and Trends

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Robert…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , lidar , radar , camera

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (8 of 8)

Automated Compliance Checking With detailed post-layout interconnect in place, and…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , IBIS-AMI , PCIe , Signal Integrity , Compliance Checking , SerDes , Sigrity

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 30th to May 4th 2018

https://youtu.be/Zpui6QhXM_o Coming from The San Jose Tech Museum (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
ddr5 , AMI , the tech , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , algorithmic modeling interface

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Tech Blog Series: Sensitivity Analysis+Optimization — Now That's Formidable!

Anyone who designs complex circuits and claims they don’t use the Optimizer on their…

• less than a min read
RF , OrCAD Capture , PSPICE , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge

In mid-April I was at the Linley Processor Conference. As usual, Linley Gwennap gave…

• 6 min read
artificial intelligence , linley group , IoT , Linley , Tensilica , neural network , datacenter

Academic Network

ISPD18 Contest and Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions

ISPD is the International Symposium on Physical Design. The ISPD contest is a well…

• 4 min read
university , ISPD18 Contest , Cadence Academic Network , academia , EDA , Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions , university program
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