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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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Breakfast Bytes

Signoff in the Cloud

Here's a nightmare. You sign off your design with the usual margins. It is a 7nm…

• 3 min read
Tempus , Voltus , power integrity signoff , signoff , timing signoff

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 3rd May 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: EDA101 Video…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

System, PCB, & Package Design 

2019 HF1 Release for Clarity, Celsius, and Sigrity Tools Now Available

The 2019 HF1 production release for Clarity, Celsius, and Sigrity Tools is now available…

• 5 min read
Celsius Thermal Solver , Gds2Spd Translator , Clarity 3D Solver , Sigrity 2019 HF1 , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Processor Conference 2020 Keynote

The Linley Processor Conference always opens with a keynote by Linley Gwenapp giving…

• 6 min read
deep learning , linley processor conference , Linley , neural networks

Analog/Custom Design

Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex – Your Instant Access to Latest Spectre Features!

This blog talks about how to enable the AMS Designer flex mode.

• 3 min read
mixed signal design , AMS Designer , AMSD , AMSD Flex Mode , mixed-signal verification

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Recharacterize What Matters - Save Time!

Read how the Cadence Liberate Characterization solution effectively enables you to…

• 2 min read
tidbits , Standard Cell , library characterization , Application Notes , missing arcs , Library Characterization Tidbit , Digital Implementation , ldb , failed arcs , Characterization Solution , Liberate , Liberate Characterization Portfolio

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Can You Build Lego Masterpieces with All Blocks of One Size?

The way you need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego masterpieces…

• 2 min read
ICADVM18.1 , cadence , WSP , Advanced Node , Local regions , Layout Suite , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , usability , Custom IC , ux , WSSPDef

Verification

Specman’s Callback Coverage API

Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources…

• 5 min read
Specman , Specman/e , Specman coverage engine , coverage , Specman e , specman elite , Coverage Driven Verification

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso视频日记：Multi-Technology Simulation - 改变带来更好的体验

如果您在单个芯片上设计了具有不同工艺流程的多个电路，则很可能已使用我们的Multi-Technology Simulation（MTS）功能对其进行了仿真。而且…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Spectre , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Multi-Technology Simulation , Custom IC , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , MTS

Breakfast Bytes

1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese Ones

You can't read anything about technology these days without reading about 5G. But…

• 5 min read
5G , amps , nmt , 1g , mobile

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Low Power SoC Design with High-Level Synthesis

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dave Apte discusses how to create the…

• less than a min read
High-Level Synthesis , Whiteboard Wednesdays , Stratus

The India Circuit

My Journey - From a Layout Designer to an Application Engineer

Today, we are living in the era where whatever we think of as an idea is not far…

• 4 min read
CLK signal , VLSI , concurrent layout editing , customer , methodology , innovation , Turn Around Time (TAT) , memory compiler , DRC , automation , Project cycle , LVS , Application Engineer , EDA , machine learning , Simulation Driven Routing , Electrical Rule Check (ERC) , AI , Design Planner Analysis , catalyst , Schematic

Breakfast Bytes

RAMAC Park and the Origin of the Disk Drive

Did you know that there is a park in San Jose named after a disk drive? Actually…

• 7 min read
IBM , GlobalFoundries , ramac

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Shape Connectivity in the Allegro Data Model

Those who work in the IC Packaging design space have some unique challenges. We bridge…

• 6 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Impedance Analysis: Screen your Routed Design Qu…

Have you ever manufactured a printed circuit board (PCB) without analyzing all the…

• 2 min read
PCB design , Sigrity , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Weekend Update

Okay, it's not the weekend, and this isn't Saturday Night Live. But it is an update…

• 7 min read
john conway , zombie , satellite

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Die Export Gets a Facelift

Hello everyone, today I’d like to talk to you about the recent enhancements to Die…

• 9 min read
ICADVM18.1 , die export , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Advanced Node , Virtuoso RF , Wirebond , Virtuoso , System Design Environment , shape-based die , RF design , Custom IC Design , SKILL

Breakfast Bytes

EDA101 Video

Years ago, before I rejoined Cadence, I developed a presentation called EDA101 that…

• 2 min read
video , eda101

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 26th April 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Fourth 4G…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch
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