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Cadence RTL Design Studio: Built for the Full PPAC Journey

If you've used Joules RTL Design Studio, you already know what it can do. Now it…

raquelp
• 2 min read
Digital Design and Signoff , featured , Joules , Digital Implementation , rtlstudio

Corporate News

How the New ASK AI Assistant Makes Support More Seamless

Finding the right answer often takes more than one question. Users may start with…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , customer support , Generative AI , ASK Portal , ASK AI Assitant

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

You'll Still Do the Work—You Just Won't Do the Boring Part

Agentic AI is about to change your flow. Here's what actually shifts—and why the…

Corporate
• 5 min read
artificial intelligence , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA , AI for design

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The Feedback Loop Is the Moat

Every verification and design team I talk to is building agents right now. The demos…

Hamid Shojaei
• 14 min read
featured , AI in chip design , GenAI , AI/ML
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Verification

DVCon '09 SaaS Panel Thoughts, Part 3

In my previous posts on the DVCon 2009 panel on Software As A Service, or "SaaS"…

• 5 min read
SaaS , Functional Verification , Harry The ASIC Guy , DVcon , Xuropa

Analog/Custom Design

Automated Digital Block Implementation Using Virtuoso

Have you ever found yourself laying out a digital block in Virtuoso where you have…

• 2 min read
VSR , Virtuoso Custom Placer , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design , VCP

Digital Design

Great Article by Freescale: Timing Convergence Accross the Flow is "Very Important…

Having consistency and correlation in timing analysis across the design flow is …

• less than a min read
EDN , encounter , Digital Implementation , Encounter Timing System

Verification

Is Software Engineering Engineering? You Decide!

Last night when I was waiting for my daughter to finish orchestra rehearsal (she…

• 3 min read
System Design and Verification , failure tolerance , software engineering , design metrics

Analog/Custom Design

Calculating Large Signal Phase Noise Using Transient Noise Analysis

My name is Alan Whittaker and I'm in Cadence's Custom IC Proliferation Group. We…

• 2 min read
PLL , MMSIM , RF design , Circuit Design , Simulators , Custom IC Design

Digital Design

Get on Board With Bus Guides

One of the coolest new things in Encounter 8.1 is Bus Guides. I know many of you…

• 2 min read
Bus Guides , encounter , 8.1 , Digital Implementation

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Cline Change Width in APD? It's in SPB16.2!

In IC package design, it is becoming increasingly necessary to change a cline’s width…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , APD , PCB design , Cline change

Verification

Generation Action: Constraints From Above

[Welcome guest blogger Reuven Naveh of Specman R&D] What is the “constraints from…

• 6 min read
IEEE 1647 , IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP , IES-XL

Verification

Moving Low Power Chip Design up to the System Level

Anybody watching Cadence these past couple years has probably noticed how we're pretty…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , Palladium , incyte , C-to-Silicon Compiler

Analog/Custom Design

Moving an Ecosystem

Recently, a colleague here at Cadence created the image of an ecosystem , whose existence…

• 1 min read
ecosystem , Virtuoso , CAD , Custom IC Design

SoC and IP

Company Financials for 4Q08. Not Good

Memory Makers lose $8.8B in 4Q2008, to bring annual losses to $20B: Memory companies…

• 14 min read

Verification

Tracing TLM 2.0 Activity In An ESL Design – Part I

Many design teams that use SystemC are in various stages of evaluating TLM 2.0 –…

• 6 min read
TLM , System Design and Verification , TLM 2.0 , SystemC analysis , George Frazier , sctlmrecord , ESL

Verification

Making the Right Decisions *Before* You Start Your Project

Seems logical, but unfortunately, I run into customers today that grumble about their…

• 3 min read
InCyte IP , chipestimate , System Design and Verification , chip estimation

Verification

Connecting OVM Testbench and SystemC TLM2 IP

1. Introduction With TLM2 enabling more sophisticated SystemC IP interoperability…

• 9 min read
TLM2 IP , System Design and Verification , OVM , SystemC , testbench

Verification

C-to-Silicon Compiler Is The Only ESL Tool With ECO Capabilities

Another key differentiator of C-to-Silicon Compiler (CtoS) when compared to other…

• 1 min read
ECO , CTOS , RTL , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silicon , ESL

Verification

IMPORT Guidelines For e, Part 1

[Team Specman welcomes AE Manager Avi Behar as our newest guest blogger] Hi, my name…

• 4 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , Avi Behar , OVM e , Register Package , e , OVM-e , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP , IES-XL

Digital Design

'Back to School' in April? Are you Kidding?

No, I am not kidding. in fact, we have planned several 'back to school' seminars…

• 1 min read
digital Implementationg , Low Power , encounter 8.1 , Low-Power , encounter , Manufacturability sign-off , 8.1 , Digital Implementation , "SoC-Encounter" , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

DVCon '09 SaaS Panel Thoughts, Part 2

In my last post on the DVCon 2009 panel on Software As A Service , or " SaaS " as…

• 3 min read
security , SaaS , Functional Verification , Harry The ASIC Guy , DVcon

RF Engineering

Setting Up Harmonic Balance - Part 1

This is the first of a series of Blogs to talk about how to fill out the forms for…

• 3 min read
MMSIM71 , Spectre RF , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance
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