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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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Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Standard Approach to Lane Margining as Defined by PCIe…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, IP Architect Gopi Krishnamurthy explains…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PCIe Gen4 , PCIe , PCI Express

Academic Network

Academic Network at DAC 2017

Design Automatisation Conference (DAC) is the largest EDA conference in the world…

• 3 min read
dac54 , Cadence Academic Network , academia , CEDA , ACM , SIGDA , IEEE , Design Automation Conference

Breakfast Bytes

CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All

There is a widening split in the approaches being taken by academic attempts to built…

• 5 min read
Automotive , Low Power , cactusnet , dnn , neural networks , CNN , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Triple Witching Hour for Automotive

In New York, there is an occasion four times a year known as the "triple witching…

• 8 min read
electric traction , Automotive , uber , shared ownership , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 10th to 14th 2017

https://youtu.be/hEhCQwICR4g Coming from the Computer History Museum, Mountain…

• less than a min read
Automotive , functional safety , deep learning , cactus net , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , convolutional neural nets , cactusnet , CNN

RF Engineering

Link to: 7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters: How to Simulate Those Pesky…

Hi All, If you were unable to attend IMS 2017 in June 2017, the IMS MicroApp …

• less than a min read
nport , analog/RF , APS , S-parameter , Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Broadband SPICE , nport settings , RF spectre spectreRF , spectreRF , s parameter simulation

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: How Can I Organize My Assistants and Toolbars?

Many things in Virtuoso can be customized, showing/hiding and configuring the layout…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE GXL , PAD , custom/analog , ADE Explorer , Explorer , Routing , ADE XL , ADE , VLS GXL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ADE-GXL , Analog Design Environment , Schematic Editor , ADE-XL , RF design , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Schematic , parasitics , ADE Assembler

Learning and Support

Cadence Support—Your 24x7 Self-Help Partner

Today, there is always a universal demand for learning and troubleshooting easily…

• 1 min read
Self-Help , videos , RAK , Application Notes , troubleshooting , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

The Kansas City Walkway Collapse—The Answer

Yesterday, I wrote about The Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse . I showed a close…

• 2 min read
root cause analysis , engineering , Breakfast Bytes , kansas city walkway collapse

Breakfast Bytes

The Kansas City Hyatt Walkway Collapse—A Puzzle

It is coming up to July 4 week. Cadence will be shut down and Breakfast Bytes will…

• 3 min read
root cause analysis , engineering , Breakfast Bytes , kansas city walkway collapse

Breakfast Bytes

System in Package

At DAC, Dick James gave a fascinating presentation on system in package, or SiP,…

• 6 min read
Apple , system in package , SiP , fiji , AMD , nokia , Texas Instruments , Sony , Breakfast Bytes , CMOS image sensor

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Does Smart Software Need Help Assistants?

No, smart software like Virtuoso doesn't need Help assistants. What users of…

• 5 min read
IC 6.1 , Virtuoso Welcome Page , Cadence Online Support , Virtuoso Help Menu , Layout , Virtuoso , Cadence Help , Virtuosity , COS 2.0 , Custom IC Design , RAKs , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Eating in Your Car—Mixed Signal Automotive Lunch

The Wednesday of DAC means the Cadence Mixed-Signal Lunch. For the Digital Lunch…

• 10 min read
AMS , ST , analog , Bosch , Virtuoso , digital , amkor , mixed signal , UC Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 3rd to 7th 2017

https://youtu.be/iGQHYEbzcII Coming from the Porsche Museum, Stuttgart, Germany…

• less than a min read
root cause analysis , engineering , kansas city walkway collapse

Breakfast Bytes

Table for 7—Lunch at the Leading Edge

On Tuesday, Cadence hosted a lunch focused on 7nm digital design and signoff. Jim…

• 8 min read
digital design , TSMC , renasas , mediatek , signoff , 7nm , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - 5 Unique Advantages of the Cadence IP Solution

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett explains five unique advantages…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Design IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , PHY IP , memory IP

Breakfast Bytes

China's IC Industry: Today and Tomorrow

Professor Wei Shaojun of Tsinghua University presented on China's IC Industry: Today…

• 5 min read
China , fabless , manufacturing , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

One-on-One with Lip-Bu Tan

Monday was Lip-Bu's turn for a chat with Ed Sperling. The same event last year was…

• 6 min read
Ed Sperling , Automotive , 54dac , SDE , Mobile World Congress , Lip-Bu Tan , machinelearningdeeplearning , Internet of Things , system design enablement , Design Automation Conference , datacenter , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

DAC Opens with an Enlightened Keynote

The opening keynote of DAC was by Joe Costello. Joe, of course, was the first CEO…

• 10 min read
Joe Costello , 54dac , IoT , Internet of Things , enlighted , Breakfast Bytes
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