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Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
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featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Transforming Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus AI Studio

Cadence is transforming chip design with the launch of Cadence Cerebrus ® AI Studio…

Sean Kobayashi
• 1 min read
digital design , featured , agentic ai , designed with cadence , Cadence Cerebrus

Conformal AI Studio: Accelerated LEC/ECO/LP with AI/ML-Driven Enhancements

If you're a chip designer or verification engineer, you have likely spent countless…

David Stratman
• 5 min read
conformal , featured , Digital Implementation , Conformal AI Studio , AI/ML
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Save Time With The Right Mouse Button

How many times have you done this: you want to flip or rotate a cell in your design…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Find A Pin's Transition Time

How many times while working in Encounter Digital Implementation system have you…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Avoiding The Use Of FILL1 Cells

A new thing that we're seeing with some 45nm libraries is the rule that single-wide…

• 2 min read
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Tab Completion with Encounter's dbGet Command: Smarter Than You Might Think

If there's one thing that makes navigating a UNIX command line or tool console more…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Fixing SI Victim Nets

It's hard to believe there was a time when we didn't even run signal integrity analysis…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Setting Up Clock Routing Rules

Hi, and welcome back to another Five-Minute Tutorial! Yes, I know it's been a while…

• 3 min read
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Encounter Quick Tip: How to Repair Command Line Navigation When Launching via bs…

When two users report the same issue in the same week I'm glad I can share the problem…

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28 nm IC Design: The Devil Is In The Details

Smaller process technologies are enticing chip makers with bigger rewards from their…

• 4 min read
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Encounter Puzzler #3 Solution: Renaming a Net Logically

Once again, the Encounter Digital Implementation designer community has stepped up…

• 4 min read
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Encounter Puzzler #3: Renaming a Net Logically

The other day a designer E-mailed me: How can we rename a net in Encounter? I followed…

• 1 min read
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Tortoise Versus Hare … or How to Improve Your Time to Tapeout Using In-Design Si…

Now that Wei Lii Tan has helped you with your New Year’s resolution to “create a…

• 2 min read
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Evolution of Design Exploration and Planning

The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said "you can fix it on the drafting…

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Guest User Blog: dbShape For All Your Logical Operation Needs

This is a guest post from Jason Gentry at Avago. I hope you enjoy this useful piece…

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Tackling your Greatest Chip Design Challenges with the Cadence Digital End-to-End…

It hasn't been that long, but do you recall your new year's resolution? Eat healthier…

• 6 min read
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Advanced Maneuvers in Feedthrough Insertion: Maximizing Routability while Minimizing…

Previously I wrote about the basics of feedthrough insertion in Encounter . Today…

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Planning for Hierarchical Design Success: Do You Have a Robust Feedthrough Insertion…

Feedthrough insertion is a subtly crucial task that naturally arises in hierarchical…

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CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010: User Papers Explore Digital Implementation

I previously wrote about the general session of the 2010 CDNLive! Silicon Valley…

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CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010: What EDA360 Means to Digital Implementation Engine…

CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2010 -- our user's group meeting and more -- kicked off yesterday…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: ecoAddRepeater

In today's tutorial, we're going to talk about the Encounter Digital Implementation…

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3D-IC TSV Realization: The Race Has Begun!

3D IC discussions are creating quite a buzz these days. No conference is complete…

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Guest Blog: Using dbTransform to Translate Geometric Coordinates in Encounter

This is a guest post from JasonG at Avago. I hope you enjoy this useful piece he…

• 4 min read
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Encounter Puzzler #2 Solution: Finding Registers Beneath a Hierarchy

Thanks to everyone who participated in this week's Encounter Puzzer . If you didn…

• 6 min read
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Creating a NONDEFAULT Rule

Ah, the NONDEFAULT rule. This is a routing rule that is, well, not the default! It…

• 2 min read
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Encounter Puzzler #2: Finding Registers Beneath a Hierarchy

I hope you enjoyed our first Encounter Puzzler: Where Did My Fences Go? The source…

• 1 min read
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Encounter Command Line Help

Hi everyone, and welcome to the first Five-Minute Tutorial! I have several things…

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Encounter 101: Implementing ECOs with ecoDesign

When people say "ECO" in the context of back-end digital implementation tools, they…

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Encounter Puzzler Solution: Where Did My Fences Go?

A couple of days ago I posted a puzzler on a scenario where fences couldn't be seen…

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Encounter Puzzler: Where Did My Fences Go?

A while back I visited a customer I see on a fairly regular basis. As soon as I entered…

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