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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 

BoardSurfers: DFF - Three Steps to Perfect Mask Defined Padstacks in Your PCB

We will of course not venture into the finer points of the debate about mask-defined…

• 3 min read
PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: The Default Bond Wire Profile - PROFILE1 (And Three Reasons Why Not…

For those of you who do wire-bond package substrate – whether you’re designing a…

• 6 min read
Allegro Package Designer

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Mark Cuban on Media and AI

At CES there was a session in which Mark Cuban was interviewed. As he pointed out…

• 4 min read
CES , ces2020 , AI

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 针对高阶工艺节点的器件级布线工具— 树型布线流程

本博客是Virtuoso器件级布线系列博客的最终篇，将介绍树干和树枝形成树的完整过程，通过这种类比方式，便于用户全面了解Tree Route 的流程及其功能. …

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , tree routing , structured routing , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Space-based Router , mesh routing , Layout EXL , trunk-to-trunk mesh , Mixed-Signal , Tree Route , Layout Suite , trunk creation , Generate Trunk , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

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Details of TSMC's IEDM Presentation on N5

At IEDM in December, one of the papers in the very last session (a sneaky trick to…

• 5 min read
n5 , TSMC , 5nm , IEDM

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 12th January 2020

https://youtu.be/y62D4tVK-_k Made at CES 2020 (camera Gerard Andrews) Last Thursday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

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The Rosetta Stone and the British Museum

In the first week of January, I wrote about Lars Liebmann's Rosetta Stone of Lithography…

• 4 min read
british museum , sir john soane's museum , rosetta stone , museums

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What's New in Consumer Electronics? CES 2020

I come to Las Vegas in the first week of January each year to attend what used to…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , CES , ces2020 , robotics , drones , AI

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The 40th Anniversary of LAMBDA Magazine

Forty years ago today, January 8, 1980, the first issue of LAMBDA magazine was published…

• 8 min read
vlsi technology , lambda magazine , mead and conway

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Four Reasons to Avoid Multi-Layer Flip-Chip Pin Padstacks

Designing a package substrate, there are things that many of us do that perhaps we…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: PCB Electronics—Six Tasks to Prepare Board for Manufacturing

You have placed components and routed the board. You are finally ready to send the…

• 5 min read
PCB Editor

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Open Source in 2020

I recently wrote a couple of posts about open-source EDA tools, OpenROAD: Open-Source…

• 9 min read
open source eda , open source

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Protium and Palladium 1st=

We just finished 2019, of course, so it is time for annual "Best of 2019" lists.…

• 5 min read
Protium , Palladium , embedded software , Emulation

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The History of Lithography, Part 2: From Double-Patterning to EUV

This is a continuation of yesterday's post The History of Lithography, Part 1: From…

• 8 min read
asml , lithography , Double Patterning , multi-patterning , EUV

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The History of Lithography, Part 1: From Stones to Lasers

Lithography was originally a way of printing using a flat stone. Lithos (or λίθος…

• 7 min read
lithography , 193i , RET

The India Circuit

2019: The Year That Was...And Some Surprising News

The biggest happening in 2019 for India was, of course, the general elections. (Though…

• 3 min read
5G , artificial intelligence , deep learning , 2019 , Deep Tech , AI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

The Year That Was: PCB Design Blogs in 2019

The first series BoardSurfers is about PCB designing. It provides information on…

• 2 min read
Library and design data management , PCB Editor , 17.4-2019 , PCB design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Stepping into 2020

We started 2019 with the promise to cover all the topics that might interest you…

• 2 min read
Allegro Package Designer

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Routing Clean-Up Prior to Manufacturing

A fantastic year is ending, so I want to take a quick opportunity to go over some…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer
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