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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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Verification

TLM-driven Design And Verification Methodology Book Author Interviews

The recently published TLM-driven Design and Verification Methodology book has been…

• less than a min read
TLM , methodology , Stellfox , Balarin , Mosenson , Bailey , Watanabe , McNamara , ESL , book

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: ADE XL Test Setup

In my last post , I left you in suspense, with your mouse hovering over the words…

• 4 min read
IC 6.1 , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ADE-XL , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

SoC and IP

Memcon 2010 proceedings now online

Last week’s MemCon 2010 was a blowout event, focusing on the past, present, and future…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

The Woz Is Coming...The Woz Is Coming...The Woz Is Coming...and keynoting at the…

Just announced, Steve Wozniak will be speaking at the Flash Memory Summit this month…

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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The PCB SI Model Editor? See For Yourself In The SPB16.3 Release

With the SPB16.3 release of PCB SI , the Model Editor has been added to allow you…

• 5 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , RF , SPB16.3 , SiP , HSPICE , Signal Intregrity , Digital SiP design , IBIS , SigXP UI , PCB Signal and power integrity , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , IBIS-AMI , SigWave , PCB design , SI analysis and modeling , model editor , power

SoC and IP

Real comments on SSDs from the industry at large over at LinkedIn

It’s easy for pundits to flap their lips when speaking about SSDs. What’s harder…

• 4 min read

SoC and IP

I’ve been waiting for this: water-cooled DDR3 SDRAM from Kingston

Long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away--PC motherboards carried an array of chips…

• 2 min read

SoC and IP

Motley Fool investment site discovers SSDs, gets it wrong

The Motley Fool, a famous investment book turned Web site ( www.fool.com ) just posted…

• 2 min read

SoC and IP

DRAMeXchange says DRAM market topped $10 billion in Q2

The worldwide market for DRAMs exceeded $10 billion in Q2 according to David Manners…

• 1 min read

Verification

Silicon Hive CTO: How Transaction-Based Acceleration Speeds IP Verification And Prevents…

Jeroen Leijten is Chief Technology Officer for Silicon Hive , a Dutch company that…

• 7 min read
IP , Leitjen , Acceleration , Silicon Hive , video , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , transaction-based , TBA , graphics , verification

Verification

Do Hardcopy Books Still Have Value?

As my colleagues Adam Sherer and Joe Hupcey reported last week, Cadence has just…

• 2 min read
uvm , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , Accellera , VMM

Verification

Tech Tip: Dramatically Improve Throughput With “Assertion Distributor”

There are several ways that Incisive Formal Verifier (IFV) can be set to evaluate…

• 4 min read
ABV , Functional Verification , vPlan , Fornal , Desktop Manager , IEV , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Favorite Features Of An IC Package Designer: Assembly Rule Checks

This is the third in a series of discussions we would like to open up regarding…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , package , SiP , Analog and RF SiP design , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , Allegro 16.3 , IC Packaging and SiP , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB , wirebond profile library , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , Kulicke & Soffa

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro GRE Bundle Editing? SPB16.3 Has Many New Enhancements!

The Allegro Global Route Environment (GRE) has expanded its capabilities in the area…

• 4 min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , SPB16.3 , global route , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , GRE , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: ADE XL

I know, it's been a long time since my last post. You see, we've finally arrived…

• 5 min read
IC 6.1 , ADE , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ADE-XL , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

SoC and IP

Pasadena SSD Maker Foremay crams 2Tbytes into 3.5-inch SSD, 1Tbyte into 2.5-inch…

Foremay’s EC188 M-series Model-V SSDs is now available in a 2-Tbyte version for 3…

• less than a min read

Digital Design

Programmatically Capturing Cell Delay In The Encounter Digital Implementation Sy…

A while back we were talking about how to programatically troubleshoot timing violations…

• 5 min read
Static timing analysis , CTE-TCL , Digital Implementation , scripting , tcl

SoC and IP

Micron provides detailed synopses of its NAND Flash and PCM presentations at Flash…

Micron has done a very smart thing (note to marketers: take matters into your own…

• 5 min read

SoC and IP

MemCon 2010: DDR3 1GHz and Beyond--Preregistered attendance now approaching 800.…

Yesterday, preregistration attendance for MemCon 2010 jumped the 600 threshold. Today…

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