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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 

What's Good About Part Developer and Fonts? You Can Change Them in SPB16.3!

PCB Librarian Expert (sometimes known as Part Developer or PDV ) is the librarian…

• 2 min read
SPB16.3 , part developer , PDV Symbol , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , design , fonts , Design Entry , Librarians , ConceptHDL , library , Allegro

Verification

Does It Get Any Better than CDNLive! India?

I've just returned from CDNLive! India in Bangalore, fired up with the huge crowd…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , formal , OVM , ISX , MDV , IFV , techtorial , India , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

A Shorter, Predictable Design Cycle for Complex PCBs - Dynamic Phase Control

This is second in a series of blog posts about making your design cycles shorter…

• 1 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , DDR2 , ECSets , Constraint-driven PCB Design flow , Allegro 16.3 , phase control , XAUI , PCB design , dynamic phase control , DDR3 , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI Case Management? SPB16.3 Has a Few New Enhancements!

The SPB16.3 PCB SI release has simplified the use of case management. In previous…

• 1 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , RF , SPB16.3 , SiP , Signal Intregrity , SigXP UI , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB design

Verification

“Formal Design” or “Formal Verification”-- What is the Right Label?

Shortly after DAC 2010, Gabe Morretti wrote a couple of interesting blogs (reference…

• 3 min read
DAC , uvm , ABV , CDNLive , Functional Verification , formal , OVM , EDA360 , EDA , SoC , Silicon Realization , SoC Connectivity , connectivity , IFV

Verification

Broadcom Presentation Shows Value of Transaction-Based Acceleration

Wow - what a paper! At CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010 , the joint paper from Broadcom…

• 1 min read
CDNLive , Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Palladium , broadcom , Emulation , transaction-based , simulation , verification

RF Engineering

New Fast Envelope in MMSIM10.1 is *Really* Fast and Accurate!

Traditionally, envelope analysis is used to simulate circuits with modulated inputs…

• 1 min read
RF , envelope , MMSIM , fast envelope , simulation

Verification

Open Mobile Summit -- What‘s Happening in the World of Applications

I attended last week's Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco last week. This is a twice…

• 4 min read
Open Mobile Summit , applications , android , EDA360 , google , apps , superphones , smartphones

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro GRE Planning? You’ll Need the SPB16.3 Release to See!

This new SPB16.3 Global Route Environment (GRE) Plan Status and Router Status functionality…

• 2 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , SPB16.3 , global route , Routing , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , GRE , Predictable PCB design , Allegro

Verification

System Bring-Up - THE Critical Path in the System Development Process

The electronic industry is moving from hardware-defined products to software-defined…

• 2 min read
prototyping , Bring-up , Acceleration , debug , system realization , Palladium , Emulation , bringup , System Design and Verification , verification

Verification

2010 CDNLive Silicon Valley Photo Blog: Silicon Realization, ABV, OVM, MDV, Specman…

If you are running short on time and can't view all the videos of the 2010 CDNLive…

• less than a min read
SystemVerilog , Cadence Connections , NextOp , AMS , uvm , Specman , ABV , Zocalo , verification strategy , CDNLive , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , OVM , EDA360 , Mixed Signal Verification , e , SoC , SVA , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Silicon Realization , AMIQ , assertion synthesis , Aspect Oriented Programming , ISX , MDV , IEV , IFV , AOP

Verification

The Amazing Diversity of the SoC Conference

Although I attend a number of conferences and tradeshows each year, most of these…

• 3 min read
SOC Conference , uvm , Multi-Core , SoC , multicore , yield , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Favorite Features of an IC Package Designer: Wirebonding

This is the fourth in a series of discussions we would like to open up regarding…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , package , IC Package , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , Allegro 16.3 , IC Packaging and SiP , APD , wirebonds , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB , wirebonding , Physical layout and co-design , Kulicke & Soffa

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Making Programs Clear and Concise

The SKILL programming language augments Cadence core tool functionality for Virtuoso…

• 3 min read
Team SKILL , programming , analog , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design , SKILL , Allegro

SoC and IP

STT-MRAM -- from Seagate???

On June 12, 1989, I flew to Minnesota from Denver, Colorado, picked up a rental car…

• 2 min read

Digital Design

CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010: User Papers Explore Digital Implementation

I previously wrote about the general session of the 2010 CDNLive! Silicon Valley…

• 2 min read
EDA360 , Silicon Realization , Digital Implementation , CDNLive!

Verification

Using Scoreboards and Virtual Platforms for Software Verification

Today I'm running a guest article written by Henry Von Bank of Posedge Software …

• 4 min read
scoreboards , software verification , virtual platforms , posedge , virtual prototypes , Incisive , ISX , System Verification , linux

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pairs in Allegro Constraint Manager? See For Yourself…

There are a couple new Differential Pair (Diff Pair) capabilities available with…

• 3 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , DDR2 , SPB16.3 , Constraint-driven PCB Design flow , diff pairs , DRC , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , PCB design , differential Pair Swapping , reflection , Allegro PCB Editor , differential pairs , Differential Pair Support , library , Allegro

Verification

Verification Goldmine: 50 User Papers on Formal, Multi-Engine, and Assertion-Based…

With all due respect to our Tech Pubs writers, Solutions Architects, and contributors…

• 8 min read
verifier , DAC , ABV , methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , debug , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Incisive , SVA , Silicon Realization , PSL , DVcon , AMBA , MDV , IEV , IFV
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