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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
Analog/Custom Design
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Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Switched Capacitor and C2V Converter-Based Ci…

In this Knowledge Booster blog, let us talk about the simulation of the circuits…

• 4 min read
blended , blended training , Spectre RF , learning , newton , training , digital badges , training bytes , Spectre , Cadence certified , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , online training , Custom IC

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Custom Passive Device Authoring - Part 2 (LVS)

Welcome to the second blog on Custom Passive Device Authoring (CPDA). RF designers…

• 6 min read
EM simulation , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Electromagnetic Solver , Virtuoso Multi-Technology Solution , Custom IC Design , IC23.1

More Current Mirrors in Analog Layout

In my previous blog, ( Current Mirrors in Analog Layout ) I looked at a few techniques…

• 4 min read

Virtuoso Studio: Device-Level Auto Place and Route — Now a Reality!

By Sravasti Nair, Product Engineering Group Director, Cadence. The world of semiconductors…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Studio , custom/analog , Device level Auto Palce and Route , Custom IC

Spectre Tech Tips: GPU Integration with Analog Circuit Simulation

Spectre X GPU offers new computational capabilities that can transform the way large…

• 4 min read
GPU , analog circuit simulation , Spectre Circuit Simulator , Spectre , spectre x

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Virtuoso Electromagnetic Solver Assistant -Support for Iterated…

In this blog, you will see how to use the “Iterated Instance support” capability…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Layout Suite MXL , EM Solver Assistant , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso MultiTech , iterated instances , Custom IC Design , EMX Solver

Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR33 and IC6.1.8 ISR33 Now Available

The ICADVM20.1 ISR33 and IC6.1.8 ISR33 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

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Custom Passive Device Authoring - Part 1 (Automatic Marker…

You probably heard about the release of Cadence EMX Designer. This blazing fast layout…

• 7 min read
EM simulation , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Electromagnetic Solver , Virtuoso Multi-Technology Solution , Custom IC Design , IC23.1

Start Your Engines: Debugging Mixed-Signal Partitioning Issues Using the Elabora…

Mixed-signal partitioning issues are a common occurrence in mixed-signal functional…

• 6 min read
real coercion , real number modeling , AMS , mixed signal design , debug , Elaborator , AMS Designer , detailed discipline resolution , Mixed-Signal , analog/mixed-signal , AMS simulation , wreal , AMS Verification , mixed-signal verification

Balancing Analog Layout Parasitics in MOSFET Differential Pairs

Differential amplifiers apply gain not to one input signal but to the difference…

• 13 min read

Virtuoso Studio: Collaborate with the Right Intentions!

By Girish Vaidyanathan, Sr. Product Marketing Manager, Cadence Design Systems. The…

• 4 min read
collaboration , Virtuoso Studio , AMS Designer , Virtuoso , Layout design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 Now Available

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

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

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes — Virtuoso CLE Webinar Recording Available

Virtuoso®︎ Concurrent Layout (CLE) is a layout editing environment that enables designers…

• 3 min read
concurrent layout editing , Virtuoso CLE , Virtuoso Layout EXL , digital badges , training bytes , Custom IC Design , online training , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Virtuoso Studio: Faster Than the Fastest - Custom Platform For the Next Decade

By Olivier Arnaud, Product Engineering Group Director, Cadence Design Systems. We…

• 4 min read
custom/analog , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Virtuoso Studio: The Right Tool for the Right Job

By Sravasti Nair, Product Engineering Group Director, and Girish Vaidyanathan, Sr…

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

SPECTRE 23.1 Release Now Available

The SPECTRE 23.1 release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads . For…

• 3 min read
Spectre 23.1 , fault analysis , Spectre Circuit Simulator , spectre fx , Spectre Fast Monte Carlo , Spectre X distributed simulation , Legato Reliability , Spectre X Simulator

Virtuoso Studio: Design Hierarchy – Bane or Boon?

By Girish Vaidyanathan, Sr. Product Manager, Virtuoso Studio, Cadence. Partitioning…

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

Virtuosity: Debugging like a Pro Using Voltus-XFi Result Browser: Strategies to Boost…

This blog discusses how Voltus-XFi provides a solution for unparalleled debugging…

• 5 min read
Voltus-XFi , EMIR Analysis , Virtuoso Studio , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , debugging

Virtuoso Studio: The Evolution of Analog Design

In this first blog of Virtuoso Studio blog series, Steven Lewis (Product Management…

• 5 min read
Cadence blogs , custom/analog , analog , Virtuoso , analog design , Custom IC , custom design technology

Early, Accurate, and Faster Exploration and Debug of Worst-Case Design Failures with…

Process nodes with smaller geometries have always enticed chip manufacturers and…

• 5 min read
Spectre FMC Analysis , Fast Monte Carlo Analysis , Custom IC Design

Substrate Noise Coupling in Integrated Circuits

Silicon integrated circuits utilize various forms of isolation to electrically isolate…

• 3 min read

Start Your Engines: Best Practices for Converting an Electrical Signal to a Logic…

Read this blog to know how you can convert an electrical signal to a logic value…

• 9 min read
AMS , AMS Designer , Verilog-AMS , Mixed-Signal , AMS simulation

Cadence Welcomes Pulsic, Ltd

Cadence welcomes Pulsic, Ltd., a longtime provider of production-proven technology…

• less than a min read
featured , Custom Routing , Virtuoso , Custom Layout , Circuit Design

Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR32 and IC6.1.8 ISR32 Now Available

The ICADVM20.1 ISR32 and IC6.1.8 ISR32 production releases are now available for…

• 2 min read
Cadence blogs , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ViVA , ICADVM20.1 , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , Cadence Community , ADE Assembler

Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre X High-Capacity Circuit Simulation

This blog discussed the experience of simulating a 400 million node design with SpectreX…

• 4 min read
Voltus-XFi , EMIR Analysis , Spectre Circuit Simulator , Spectre X Simulator

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Routing Techniques for Custom IC Layout Design…

This blog introduces you to different routing styles for Custom IC layout design…

• 5 min read
shield routing , Routing , stranded routing , Virtuoso Layout Productivity , Virtuoso Layout EXL , Layout EXL , Layout Suite , ICADVM20.1 , differential pair routing , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - The Spectre FX Circuit Simulator

Today’s complex analog mixed-signal designs need high accuracy and fast simulation…

• 2 min read
blended , blended training , Spectre 21.1 , learning , Spectre Circuit Simulator , training , Cadence training , digital badges , training bytes , Virtuoso , Spectre , Cadence certified , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , online training , Custom IC

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - The Spectre X Simulator

About ten years after Spectre APS was released, we decided to develop and release…

• 3 min read
blended , learning , digital badges , training bytes , Virtuoso , Cadence certified , Virtuoso Video Diary , spectre x , online training , Custom IC
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