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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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RF Engineering

Tip of the Week: When should I use the pss/qpss Harmonic Balance vs. Shooting Newton…

Shooting Newton (shooting) and harmonic balance (HB) are complementary technologies…

• less than a min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design

Digital Design

Demo: Interactive Floorplanning in SoC-Encounter

In this demonstration, we'll show how to perform the following actions: Resize a…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , screencast , Rectilinear Cut , Floorplanning and Prototyping

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's good about memristors? Who is planning on using them?

I recently read an interesting article in the August 18, 2008 Electronic Engineering…

• 1 min read
memristors , PCB design , Electronic Engineering Times

Verification

The Road to Better Software Verification

It seems the debate over the benefits of better software verification is still alive…

• 5 min read
Intel , Specman , System Design and Verification , Frank Schirrmeister

Digital Design

Demo: How To Make Multiple Edits with "Apply All" in SoC-Encounter

Today, I'm starting what I hope will be a series of screencasts where I demonstrate…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , screencast , Digital Implementation , Apply All , Attribute Editor

RF Engineering

Tip of the Week: Guidelines for simulating oscillators - phase noise simulations

When simulating oscillators, it is important to choose the correct simulator engine…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design

Verification

ESL: The state of the industry and what’s next?

While ESL continues to remain in its infancy, there are signs within the industry…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification , ASIC/ASSP , advanced process nodes , ESL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Analog/RF chip designers don't care about the Package?

So I have an observation that I would your thoughts/input on. On several occassions…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Analog chip design , IC Packaging & SiP design , Virtuoso , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , design chain

Verification

Experiences on Marketing a Verification Library

Inspired by JL Gray of the blog "Cool Verification" who stated, in this post: "I…

• 2 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How stable is your IC Package's PDN?

There are three goals for a power a delivery network (PDN): sufficiency, efficiency…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SSN , DDR3

Verification

Embedded Systems Conference Boston 2008

Friday is that last day to get the Early Bird price for the Embedded Systems Conference…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , Coverage Driven Verification for Embedded Software , Embedded Systems Conference 2008 , debugging , Jason Andrews , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Techtorials, Demos, Roadmaps ... Poker?

What do these 4 have in common? CDNLive! 2008 San Jose - September 8 - 11, 2008.…

• 2 min read
PCB Layout and routing , CDNLive , DEHDL , OrCAD Capture , PCB Signal and power integrity , Capture CIS , Library and design data management , SPB , High-Density Interconnect , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , AMS simulation , Allegro PCB Editor , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL , SPB16.01 , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI

Digital Design

Understanding Clock Net Markings in SoC-Encounter

I'm happy to report that the Digital Implementation Forums are picking up momentum…

• 3 min read
dbGet , Digital Implementation forums , CTE-TCL , encounter , clocks , saveClockNets

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Breaking down the 'virtual' wall

In the last 3-4 months I have seen, and been involved in, a flurry of discussions…

• 1 min read
IP , cadence , Allegro 16.2 , IC Packaging & SiP design , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Verifying multi-technology chips-in-a-SiP, fact or fiction?

With everyone talking about System-in-Package (SiP), one challenge that often gets…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

Verification

iPhone 3G issues - result of HW/SW-co-verification?

In a recent article at cnet, financial analyst said he believes Apple's iPhone 3G…

• 2 min read
Richard Windsor , Infineon 3G chipset , Infineon , System Design and Verification , iPhone 3G , Nomura

Verification

ESL gets a new taker

Interesting High-Level Synthesis review by Bryon Moyer at IC Design and Verification…

• less than a min read
High-Level Synthesis , IC Design and Verification , CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2008

RF Engineering

Tip of the Week: New nport parameter ( dcextrap ) for modeling longer transmission…

There is a new nport parameter, dcextrap, available in MMSIM 6.2.1. The values are…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SPB 16.2 release - Constraint Driven HDI PCB Design Flow

Today's SPB 16.2 release is significant for the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD families…

• 3 min read
PCB Layout and routing , NVIDIA , Harris , High-Density Interconnect , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI
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