Virtuosity: Reminiscing About The Last 'Teen' Year of Custom IC Design Blogs

Everything about my teenage life was almost ideal.

- Esther Williams

Like every teenager, we'd like to believe that the last year was an ideal last teen year for Custom IC Design blogs. We explored different product areas through our blogs, learned about these product areas from several technology leaders, started a dedicated blog series to cover enhancements and possibilities with our cutting-edge Cadence^® Virtuoso® RF Solution, and made way for some interesting learning interventions! With over 3 years of blogging about new, interesting but lesser-known, and useful Virtuoso features, learning resources, and trainings, it certainly does feel like the dawn of 2020 has brought with itself adolescence!

Everybody who made it through adolescence is a hero! - Joss Whedon 

While we look forward to attaining hero-hood for Custom IC Design blogs, here's hoping that the year ahead brings great accomplishments for all our readers! Being optimistic is great to keep your inner spark alive. Isn’t it?

A Quick Recap

Before you get busy learning about the new and interesting topics that we will start writing about soon, let us leave you with a quick recap of some of our topics published last year. It won't be a bad idea to bookmark this blog to serve as your go-to-page for all our content published last year. There you go...

• Virtuoso Meets Maxwell
  

As mentioned earlier too, we are running a dedicated blog series to talk about our Virtuoso RF Solution. And, isn't that indication enough of the scope and possibilities the solution has to offer.

• Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes

In the device-level routing space in Virtuoso® Layout Suite, we have introduced some engaging, new customer-driven enhancements. And to support you in adopting these enhancements to full advantage, we published a mini blog series.

• Automated Device-Placement and Routing

Another enhancement we featured in our blogs last year was our latest automated device-placement and routing flow. This assistant-driven, fully automated flow was also covered through a series of blogs that cover the flow from end-to-end.

• Analog Design Enhancements

We have made several big and small enhancements to our ADE offerings. And this recent recap blog highlighting some useful features is a great one-stop shop for all you need to know to leverage our enhanced ADE functionality.

And...

If you're not a native english speaker and would prefer reading our blogs in Chinese, you can check out our blogs posted on the Custom IC (Chinese) blog space. We have also translated some of our advanced nodes blogs on placement and routing flows to Japanese.

Last year we also talked about an opportunity for you to enroll for our free webinar on our latest custom implementation flows. This year too, we will try to keep you informed about any such events or webinars so you can learn how to use our solutions efficiently. You can also directly visit our Education Services Website to stay abreast of all the upcoming training and education events being scheduled.

Want to know about our featured enhancements from a previously released IC6.1.8 or ICADVM18.1 release, here's a quick link to all the release announcement blogs posted by the Virtuoso Release team.

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Contact Us

For any questions, general feedback, or even if you want to suggest a future blog topic, write to custom_ic_blogs@cadence.com 

About Virtuosity 

Virtuosity has been our most viewed and admired blog series for a long time that has brought to fore some lesser known, yet very useful software and documentation improvements, and also shed light on some exciting new offerings in Virtuoso. We are now expanding the scope of this series by broadcasting the voice of different bloggers and experts, who would continue to preserve the legacy of Virtuosity, and try to give new dimensions to it by covering topics across the length and breadth of Virtuoso, and a lot more… To receive notifications about new blogs in this series, click Subscribe and submit your email ID in the Subscriptions box. 

Happy Reading!

- Dishika Majumdar & Rishu Misri Jaggi