The Year That Was: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes Blog and Video Highlights from 2022

Another year has gone by and the world is slowly slipping back into the new, old “normal”. While it is nice to see "Live Trainings" back on the Cadence training portal, we’re also continuing the online trainings to improve efficiency and sustainability for our customers as best as possible. And our Knowledge Booster blog series has been making it easy than ever before to learn what new functionality Virtuoso has on offer. Last year alone, we published 11 more Knowledge Booster blogs to keep you up-to-date with new and enhanced Virtuoso features.

Most Viewed Blogs

We have published some very popular blogs across product areas: Virtuoso ADE Product Suite, Quantus Extraction Solution, Pegasus Verification System, Spectre Simulation Platform, and many more.

A big thank you to all the colleagues who regularly published the blogs with the latest interesting Training bytes and Training Materials. Here are the links to some of the most viewed blogs.

• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL (Niyati Singh & Udit Rajput)
• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Enhance Layout Productivity with Virtuoso CLE (Baby Ravi)
• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Virtuoso Pin-To-Trunk Routing (Sandhya P S)
• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - How to Model Analog Blocks with Verilog-AMS wreal Modeling? (Mohammed Jaseem)
• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - What Is a Parameterized Cell and What Are the Advantages (Vishnu Teja S)
• Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Interactive Short Locator (ISL) in the PVS LVS Debug Environment (Sarita Sharma)

All in all, the Knowledge Booster Training Bytes blog series provides a very comprehensive overview on the products listed above and other Custom IC products.

To read about all our blogs in the series, see Knowledge Booster Training Bytes.

Most Viewed Training Byte Videos Within the Blogs

Sharing the most viewed and popular training byte videos in Custom IC Design during the last year.

• An Introduction to Interactive Short Locator (Jentil Tom)
• Defining and listing the advantages of Parameterized Cell (Salagrama Vishnu Teja)
• Virtuoso Pin-to-Trunk Routing Basics (Sandhya P S)

Most Viewed Webinars

We supported the Enhancing Layout Productivity with Virtuoso Layout Pro Webinar with Baby Ravi (Sr Principal Education Application Engineer) and Stephen Hazen (Education Application Engineer Director) with a blog.

If you missed the Webinar you can find a recording here.

New Digital Badges

Some of the newly created digital badges are shown here. 

If you’re interested to know what other badges are currently being offered by Cadence, see Become Cadence Certified.

Most Viewed Trainings with Their Latest Versions

The revised trainings along with their latest versions that were made available in 2022 are listed below.

• Pegasus Verification System v22.1 (Online)
• Command-Line Based Mixed-Signal Simulations with the Xcelium Use Model v22.03 (Online)
• Physical Verification System v22.1 (Online)
• Real Modeling with Verilog-AMS v22.03 (Online)
• SimVision for Debugging Mixed-Signal Simulations vXcelium22.03 (Online)

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About Knowledge Booster Training Bytes

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes is an online journal that relays information about Cadence Training videos, online courses, and upcoming webinars that are available in the Learning section of the Cadence Learning and Support portal. This blog category brings you direct links to these videos, courses, and other related material, on a regular basis. You can subscribe to the blog series to stay up to date about new trainings and training videos available at the Cadence Training site. 

Parul Agrawal

On behalf of the Cadence Training team