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When AI Becomes Part of Your Analog Design Workflow

If you design analog or mixed-signal circuits, each silicon generation asks you to…

Corporate
• 6 min read
Virtuoso AI Studio , featured , agentic ai , IP Catalog , analog design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR8 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR8 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 5 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog

Analog Design Migration Made Easy With Migration Cockpit

Analog IP remains one of the most valuable and difficult-to-scale assets in semiconductor…

Vinod Khera
• 5 min read
featured , analog IP , Automated test bench migration , parasitic aware optimization , Front to back Analog Migration
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Knowledge Booster Training Bytes: Virtuoso Layout for Advanced Nodes - Quickstar…

Advanced node technologies require specific layout designs due to their complicated…

• 7 min read
Virtuoso Studio , Virtuoso Layout EXL , Advanced Node , Cadence training , Custom IC Design

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Spectre Fast Monte Carlo Analysis

The Spectre FMC Analysis uses advanced statistical and machine learning (ML) techniques…

• 2 min read
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Start Your Engines: Best Practices for Converting a Logic Signal to Electrical Value…

You can easily convert a logic signal to an electrical value using the Verilog-AMS…

• 7 min read
AMS , AMS Designer , mixed signal solution , analog/mixed-signal , AMS simulation , mixed-signal design , AMS Verification , mixed-signal verification

Virtuoso Studio: Creating Regular Patterns with Group Array

Many a times you might require patterns of objects to be repeated 100s of times across…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Studio , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Virtuoso Application Readiness Checker (ARC)

Most design teams use the schematic-driven connectivity-aware environment of Virtuoso…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Studio , arc , Virtuoso , Custom IC , IC23.1

Training Insights Webinar - Achieving First-Time-Right Analog/RF/MS IC Design with…

The new Virtuoso Studio custom IC design solution provides differentiating and innovative…

• 1 min read
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Training Insights Webinar - A Step Change in Custom IC Layout Productivity with Virtuoso…

We would now like to bring you another in-depth Training Webinar that will follow…

• 2 min read

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes — Virtuoso Layout Pro Webinar Recording Availab…

You can use Virtuoso Layout Suite to increase your layout performance and productivity…

• 4 min read
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Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Find and Enroll in a Cadence Online Training …

Our diverse training methods take into account your needs to exchange with technical…

• 2 min read
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Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR3 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR3 production release is now available for download.

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , advanced optimization , IC Release Announcement blog , eye diagram , IC Release Blog , Cadence Community , IC23.1

Analog Layout – Not Just Transistors

Look at any schematic for a CMOS Analog IC circuit and you will see symbols for NMOS…

• 5 min read

Stacked MOSFETs in Analog Layout

Below 28nm, maximum device length limitations mean that analog designers often need…

• 4 min read

Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR34 and IC6.1.8 ISR34 Now Available

The ICADVM20.1 ISR34 and IC6.1.8 ISR34 production releases are now available for…

• 2 min read
Cadence blogs , Virtuoso , ICADVM20.1 , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , Cadence Community

A New Approach to Analog Layout

Along with the explosion in digital designs, analog circuitry remains an essential…

• 2 min read

Analog Layout – Wells, Taps, and Guard rings

There are key structures that are essential to the working of any MOSFET circuit…

• 6 min read

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR2 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR2 production release is now available for download.

• 1 min read
Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog , IC Release Blog , Cadence Community , IC23.1

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Virtuoso and Allegro SKILL for Efficient Co-Design

In today's dynamic landscape of design, collaboration between different design elements…

• 7 min read
Virtuoso Studio , Edit-in-Concert , Co-Design , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Allegro Package Designer Plus , Virtuoso Multi-Technology Solution , SKILL APIs , SKILL , Allegro , VMM

Spectre Tech Tips: Selecting Limits for Parameter Value Warnings

You can accept Cadence default soft limits that determine when you receive warning…

• 7 min read
param , Circuit simulation , Spectre Circuit Simulator , Spectre , check , verification

Virtuoso Studio: Organize Your Designs Better with Navigator Queries

Navigator queries let you group objects into sets that meet specific conditions,…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso Schematic Editor , Virtuoso Studio , Navigator , Navigator queries , IC23.1

Virtuoso Studio: Design, Planning, and Analysis - 3 Sides of a Coin, Episode 2

Check out how you can create stacked pins and vias on selected metal layers using…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Studio , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Design Planning and Analysis , Floorplanner

Virtuoso Studio: In-Design Verification with iPegasus

By Olivier Arnaud, Product Engineering Group Director, Cadence. Today's complex SoC…

• 5 min read
Symmetric Fill , Virtuoso Studio , DRC , metal fill , Custom IC

Virtuoso Studio: iPegasus for Signoff DRC and Fill

The semiconductor world is evolving. The number of design rules is increasing, and…

• 6 min read
Pegasus Verification System , Virtuoso Studio , Pegasus Interactive , in-design verification , iPegasus , Signoff DRC , Custom IC Design , IC23.1

How Much Do You Know About Virtuoso Studio?

How much do you know about Virtuoso Studio? Here are the answers to the True or False…

• 5 min read
featured , Virtuoso , analog design , Custom IC

Start Your Engines: Use Tcl to Save Signals More Efficiently in AMS Simulations

For large SoC designs, the simulation performance might get impacted by the number…

• 3 min read
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Spectre Tech Tips: Introducing Spectre FMC Analysis

The Spectre FMC Analysis uses advanced statistical and machine learning (ML) techniques…

• 3 min read
Spectre Circuit Simulator , Monte Carlo analysis , Spectre Fast Monte Carlo , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , ADE Assembler

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR1 production releases are now available for download.

• 1 min read
Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , Cadence Community , IC23.1

Current Mirrors in Analog Layout

Current mirrors are found in almost every analog IC circuit to provide bias currents…

• 6 min read

Virtuoso Studio: Design, Planning, and Analysis - The 3 Sides of a Coin, Episode…

Check out how the Virtuoso Design, Planning, and Analysis just got better to help…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Studio , analog design , Design Planner , Custom IC
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