Custom IC Design Blogs

This blog helps you explore the features that make Clarity an obvious choice when you need a Finite Element Method-based EM solver for Virtuoso RF Solution.

Since IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1 was released we have continued our drive to improve the usability of Virtuoso ADE Assembler, Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso Visualization & Analysis. I'll summarize the biggest enhancements in this blog.

' Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso RF Solution and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meets Maxwell? Now, the Virtuoso platform supports RF designs, and the RF designers measure the physical and radiation effects by using the Maxwell's equations. In addition to providing insights into the useful software enhancements, this series broadcasts...

Let’s explore how a package design looks like in Virtuoso, how it can handle planes as well, and how to route the package quickly and cleanly.

With new content being posted nearly every week under Custom IC Design Blogs, there's a lot this space can tell you about Virtuoso. Let me help you find some of our most viewed posts...

The IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 production releases are now available for download.

This is the last blog in the miniseries that aims at providing in-depth details of electromagnetic analysis in Virtuoso RF Solution. To learn about a few tips and tricks on the simulation setup, read more...

The way you need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego masterpieces, a complex WSP-based design requires stitching together routing regions with multiple patterns that follow different WSSPDef periods. Let's see how you can achieve this.

Hello everyone, today I’d like to talk to you about the recent enhancements to Die export in the Virtuoso RF Solution, most of which were released in ICADVM 18.1 ISR10. What’s the background for these enhancements? Exporting an abstract of a Die, which basically represents the outer boundary of the Die with I/O locations, as an intermediate file to exchange information between various Cadence tools (i.e., the Innovus...

This blog discusses key features of concurrently editing a hierarchical cellview.

We have all heard the sayings “Less is more” and “Keep it simple”. Electromagnetic simulation is an activity where following that advice has enormous payoffs. In this blog I’ll talk about some of my experiences with how Virtuoso RF Solution’s shape simplification feature has helped my customers get significant performance improvements with minimal impacts on accuracy.

If you have one of those Die layouts, which doesn’t have bumps, but rather uses pad shapes and labels to identify I/O locations, then you might be feeling a bit left out of all of this jazz and tango. Hence, today, I am writing to tell you that, fear not, we have a solution for your Die as well.

Do you want to create designs that are correct by construction? Read along this blog to understand how you can achieve this by using Width Spacing Patterns (WSPs) in your designs. WSPs, are track lines that provide guidance for quickly creating wires. Defining WSPs that capture the width-dependent spacing rules, and snapping the pathSegs of a wire to them, ensures that the wires meet width-dependent spacing rules.

The IC6.1.8 ISR10 and ICADVM18.1 ISR10 production releases are now available for download.

Here is another blog in the multi-part series that aims at providing in-depth details of electromagnetic analysis in the Virtuoso RF solution. Read to learn about the nuances of port setup for electromagnetic analysis.

Since the release of the Automated Device Placement and Routing solution last year, we have continued to improve and build upon it. In this blog, I’ll talk about the latest addition—the Auto Device Array form—how this is an integral piece of the new Automated Device Placement and Routing solution.

Bumps are central to the Virtuoso MultiTech Framework solution. Bumps provide a connection between stacked ICs, interposers, packages, and boards. Bump locations, connectivity, and other attributes are the basis for creating TILPs, which we combine to create system-level layouts.

Seven months ago, I pointed out the ongoing need for change, or revolution, in high-frequency design flows. Spreading design IP across multiple, unconnected tools, is leading to manufacturing and design errors. It also slows the design flow and forces designers to focus on keeping track of edits and updates and not on innovating. Keeping track of the right s-parameter file may be a necessary evil in your current design...

Learn more about Cadence Education Services with this blog, which includes a list of training programs for various Virtuoso products and guidance on how to become Cadence certified in a certain technology or skill.

Hello everybody! I'm back with a new blog on Modgens. In this blog, I'm going to talk about an important new feature—the Auto Device Array form. Read the blog to know more about how this new feature has simplified the tasks of creating and customizing Modgens.

This blog will take you on a short tour to the Cadence Education Services site, which has several online training courses and bytes based on specific features of Virtuoso products.

To show the latest features in IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1 ISR9, we've updated the Rapid Adoption Kits for Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer. In addition, we have updated the RAK that explains the Stimuli Assignment form.

To support various new features and enhancements in Virtuoso Placement and Routing, our tech gurus and the writers collaborated to publish some informative blogs in 2019. This blog is a sneak peek into the blogging journey of Virtuoso Placement and Routing and provides you a handy summary to make it easy for you to read these blogs at your leisure.

If you have missed reading any of our Virtuosity, Virtuoso Meets Maxwell, Virtuoso Video Diary blogs that were published in 2019, or you would like to go back to an ISR release announcement to see what were the featured enhancements, here's your chance to bookmark this blog for all that interesting information and for some of our most-viewed posts from the last year. Also, stay tuned to our new content arriving soon.

2019 was quite an eventful year for Virtuoso  ADE Product Suite and Virtuoso  Visualization and Analysis XL. We not only added new features such as Multi-Test Editor, but also redesigned existing forms to give you the best possible experience with the existing features.