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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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Digital Design

Hot Summer for the High-Level Synthesis Community

Summer is usually a slow time of the year due to vacations, beautiful weather, and…

• 4 min read
High-Level Synthesis , DAC 2015 , SystemC , Brian Bailey , HLS , SystemC Japan 2015

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Understanding Camera Subsystems

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pulin Desai provides an overview of a…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , subsystem , Tensilica , camera , mobile , PCI Express , intellectual property

Verification

Extending the e Language with Anonymous Methods

We're happy to have guest blogger Thorsten Dworzak describe how he added anonymous…

• 8 min read
Functional Verification , Ruby , anonymous methods , e language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Embedded Cavity DRCs? It's NEW in the 16.6 Release…

Max cavity size and max cavity component count were offered as reports in the 16…

• 1 min read
PCB , Routing , 16.6 , High Speed , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , Grzenia , Allegro

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Specialty Memories

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lou Ternullo takes a closer look at what…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , wide i/o , HMC , HBM

SoC and IP

Call for Papers for MemCon Closes This Friday

You still have a chance to get a paper accepted at the premier conference for memory…

• less than a min read
MemCon , memory technology , ip cores , memories

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BGA Ball Map Creation

Are you responsible for the creation and management of a BGA ball map or a die bump…

• 1 min read
Co-Design , IC package design , I/O planning , BGA ball map

Verification

Performance and the Use of Port mvl Lists (or, Nothing in Life is Free…)

When connecting to the DUT signals, we usually refer to the values as 0s or 1s. But…

• 4 min read
performance , Specman , Functional Verification , Incisive , e , e language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing a Complex Leadframe Package? See How SiP Layout Tool Can Cover All the…

Leadframe package designs are here to stay, and they are getting more complex with…

• 7 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , Cadence Design Systems , leadframe , SiP , Digital SiP design , design variants , IC package design , package design , SiP Layout , wirebonding

Verification

The Dark Side of Constraints on 'do-not-generate' Fields

The art of expressing hardware functionality through constraint language is often…

• 7 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , e language , constraint coding

Verification

Debugging Multi-Language Verification Environments

As shown in previous blog posts in the Multi-Language Verification Environment series…

• 4 min read
uvm , UVM-ML , multi-language verification , debugging

Digital Design

Five-Minute Tutorial: Innovus Placement Optimization

Hi Everyone, Last time we got a quick look at The Innovus Standard Flow . Now…

• less than a min read
GigaPlace , Timing Optimization , Innovus , Placement

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—What Is PCI Express Address Translation Services?

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Gopi Krishna defines and describes how…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , address translation services , PCIe , PCI Express

SoC and IP

Find Everything You Need to Build an Advanced PCI Express 4.0 Solution in One Booth…

The PCI-SIG Developers Conference happening today and tomorrow will be yet another…

• 2 min read
PCIe Gen4 , pcie gen2 , 16nm , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Help Us to Help You

There is a team at Cadence working on developing the next generation of Cadence documentation…

• less than a min read
Virtuoso , Cadence Help , online documentation , Cadence support

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Manage All Design Variant Options for Your Package Substrate Seamlessly Using 16…

Stacked memory is becoming increasingly common in IC package substrates; with that…

• 2 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , stacked dies , SiP , IC Package , IC Packaging , SiP Design , design variants , package design , SiP Layout

SoC and IP

Sensor Processing, How Hard Can It Be?

When I think back back just a few years ago, there were only a handful of devices…

• 2 min read
DSP , IP , IP blocks , controller , IoT , SoC , Fusion , ip cores , Processor IP , Tensilica , semiconductor IP , Internet of Things , Design IP and Verification IP , always-on

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Benefits of Designing Your SoC with a Multi-Protocol PHY

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, William Chen explains the many benefits…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , PHY , SoC , multi-protocol

SoC and IP

Tensilica Team Wins DAC 2015 Best Paper Award

Cadence’s Tensilica team was honored with the Best Paper Award at the IP track at…

• 1 min read
IP , Chris Rowen , ip cores , vision , imaging , image processing
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