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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

How Can I Assess Process Variation in My IC Package Design?

In a previous blog we talked about the IC Packaging Design Variant tool. As you recall…

• 2 min read
SiP , design variants , IC package design , APD , manufacturing , 17.2

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 27th to December 1st 2017

https://youtu.be/AMMOBeri5E8 Coming from building 10 fussball table (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
silexica , JUG , ccix , chips & technologies , Jasper , cache-coherence

Breakfast Bytes

The Alto: The Machine That Changed the World

The Machine That Changed the World is actually the title of a well-known book about…

• 5 min read
icarus , computer history museum , chm , alto , xerox , PARC

Breakfast Bytes

CASPA Fuses AI and Semiconductor

CASPA is the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association. Once a year…

• 9 min read
deep learning , semi , caspa , Semiconductor , AI

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network Lead Institutions

Introduction Many suggestions were spinning around the globe, many ideas are being…

• 3 min read
university , Academic Network

The India Circuit

Would You Let Your Child Ride in an Autonomous Car?

DVCon is one of the premier conferences WW for design and verification. The DVCon…

• 3 min read
DVCon India , DVcon , ADAS , autonomous vehicles

Analog/Custom Design

Dealing with AOCVs in SRAMs

Systems on Chip, or SoCs as they’re more commonly called, have become increasingly…

• 4 min read
legato , custom/analog , Monte Carlo analysis , Monte Carlo , Spectre , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Foundry Roadmaps: Intel, Samsung

I definitely had cognitive dissonance at the ARM foundry talks at TechCon. The first…

• 6 min read
Intel , ARM Techcon , Samsung , TSMC , icf , FinFET , 7nm , ARM , EUV , Techcon , FD-SOI

Verification

Slaying the Gate-Level Simulation (GLS) Dragon: Your Knight Is Here!

Even today, gate-level simulation is still a major signoff step for most semiconductor…

• 2 min read
app note , Functional Verification , GLS

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 20th to 22nd 2017

https://youtu.be/aLx0C8H6qt8 Coming from Second Harvest Food Bank, San Jose (camera…

• less than a min read
thanksgiving , alto , xerox , PARC

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM Preview 2017

Every December is IEDM, the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). This…

• 5 min read
Intel , IBM , 3D NAND , copper , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , MRAM , IEDM , electron devices

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Simplifying Fault Injection Simulations for Functional Safety…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, YJ Patil answers the "What", "Why", and "How…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , functional safety

Breakfast Bytes

Jasper User Group 2017

This year's Jasper User Group (JUG) took place on 7th November. It was the 10th JUG…

• 6 min read
Jasper User Group , aruba , JUG , formal , ARM , JasperGold

Breakfast Bytes

How's Technology in Israel?

Last week was the last CDNLive of 2017 (cats have nine lives, Cadence had nine CDNlives…

• 10 min read
CDNLive , mellanox , machine learning , Lip-Bu Tan , Anirudh Devgan , eyal wladman , Israel

Learning and Support

Using Search Filters to Improve Search Results on support.cadence.com

While using any search engine, you might often feel there is too much information…

• 1 min read
COS , Search Filters , Search , Cadence Online Support , Cadence Support Portal , Cadence support

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: All New XStream In - The Translation Expressway

A layout design has to go through several iterations and multiple data exchanges…

• 6 min read
xstream in , design data translator , xstream in import , eda import

Breakfast Bytes

Arm Security Manifesto...and Krack

The Internet of Things (IoT) could be a big number...20 billion things... 50 billion…

• 7 min read
security , ARM Techcon , Simon Segars , security manifesto , reaper , wi-fi , mira , ARM , krack

Digital Design

How to Measure and Improve Design Regularity for Better Yield

The following post is an excerpt of “Methodology for Analyzing and Quantifying Design…

• 1 min read
pattern analysis , machine learning , analytics , yield , silicon signoff , design for manufacturing , DFM

Breakfast Bytes

Social Engineering

The biggest weakness in security are the people. It is almost never the encryption…

• 6 min read
security , spearphishing , phishing , social engineering , ARM , ddos , Techcon
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