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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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SoC and IP

Intel IDF 2010: SemiAccurate spots Intel SSD with 25nm Flash, new proto SandForce…

We were told that it’s coming and SemiAccurate snapped a photo of a prototype SSD…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Can magic BEANs eventually grow phase-change memory into a commercial reality?

Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) and the University of…

• less than a min read

Digital Design

Encounter Puzzler #2: Finding Registers Beneath a Hierarchy

I hope you enjoyed our first Encounter Puzzler: Where Did My Fences Go? The source…

• 1 min read
dbGet , encounter , Digital Implementation , puzzler , tcl

SoC and IP

Intel Fellow Speaks SSD Truth at IDF: SSDs “may never” compete with HDDs on cost…

TechRadar.com reports that Intel Fellow Knut S. Grimsrud said SSDs “may never” compete…

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SoC and IP

Will SD cards become SSDs for the rest of us?

Last night, I came across this interesting article on the ZDNet site about SD cards…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

SandForce’s big score: $25M investment round and quad-controller PCIe x4 SSD from…

This is SandForce’s week. First the SSD controller-chip vendor announced $25M worth…

• less than a min read

Verification

The Best C++ Debugger is Not the Best SystemC Debugger

I mentioned in a previous article that I have two girls who are excellent debaters…

• 7 min read
virtual platforms , windows , TLM 2.0 , SystemC , Visual Studio , C++ , debugging

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro GRE Rake Functionality? You’ll Need the SPB16.3 Release…

The SPB16.3 Global Route Environment (GRE) Expanded Rakes functionality provides…

• 1 min read
PCB , SPB16.3 , global route , Routing , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , "PCB design" , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , GRE , Allegro

Digital Design

Five-Minute Tutorial: Encounter Command Line Help

Hi everyone, and welcome to the first Five-Minute Tutorial! I have several things…

• 2 min read
EDI system , tutorial , encounter , help , Digital Implementation , command line , five minute , five-minute

SoC and IP

What’s the best SSD for less than $150? Techspot publishes budget SSD roundup.

A year ago, Techspot.com tested and reviewed SSDs and the least expensive drive it…

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SoC and IP

SanDisk and NDS collaborate to add features and video on demand to set-top boxes…

NAND Flash vendor SanDisk and set-top box software vendor NDS Group Ltd are collaborating…

• less than a min read

Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 3

This is my third and final blog entry in a series using quotes from famous Hollywood…

• 3 min read
vPlan , verification planning , metric-driven verification , Hollywood , MDV , IP modeling , verification

Digital Design

Encounter 101: Implementing ECOs with ecoDesign

When people say "ECO" in the context of back-end digital implementation tools, they…

• 2 min read
ECO , encounter , Digital Implementation , ecoDesign

SoC and IP

Late Event Notice: The Makers of the Microchip: Creating the Planar Integrated Circuit…

You still have two weeks to sign up for an extremely interesting lecture titled …

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

IEEE Spectrum article provides more insight into HP/Hynix memristor pact

Despite some obvious technical flaws (DRAM cost/bit is not 10x less than NAND Flash…

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Digital Design

Encounter Puzzler Solution: Where Did My Fences Go?

A couple of days ago I posted a puzzler on a scenario where fences couldn't be seen…

• 3 min read
fences , Floorplanning , encounter , Digital Implementation , puzzler

SoC and IP

Pliant trades off firmware complexity against MLC NAND Flash capacity in enterprise…

The multiplicative storage capacity of MLC (multi-level cell) NAND Flash is a siren…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Samsung sees continuing strong demand for NAND Flash

Yesterday, I wrote that Samsung was sending caution messages about DRAM demand based…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Is the latest DRAM bobsled run already coming to an end? Samsung and Hynix say “Maybe…

The semiconductor business has been cyclic ever since it came into existence half…

• 1 min read
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