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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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Transforming Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus AI Studio

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

Sean Kobayashi
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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: One More Look at EM Models

Just when you thought you were done setting up EM model files, along came another…

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New Training Class: Get Up to Speed Fast When Migrating to Encounter Digital Implementation…

One question we often hear from experienced physical design engineers migrating to…

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Sharing is Learning - New RAKs and Videos for Digital Users on Cadence Support

Friends, you would probably agree that sharing knowledge is a practical way to solve…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Start the New Year with Voltus

Happy New Year to all of our Digital Implementation Blog readers - and also to anyone…

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I guess by now most of us are already familiar with Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs). These…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: EM Model Files Revisited

Back in January, I posted a Five-Minute Tutorial about creating EM Model files .…

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Answers to Top 10 Questions on Performing ECOs in EDI System

Applying ECOs to a design can be complex, stressful and error prone so it's important…

• 6 min read
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Set Flip-Chip Bumps as Voltage Sources in EPS/EDI Rail Ana…

When running power and rail analysis for a flip chip, we used to have to spend some…

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CDNLive High-Performance Track: Do You Have What it Takes to Get Your High-Performance…

Implementing SoCs with embedded processors at advanced nodes has become increasingly…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Create Encounter Power System (EPS) Power-Grid Views For Standard…

In today's tutorial, I'm giving you a sample EPS (Encounter Power System) script…

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Quick Reference - 8 Ways to Optimize Power Using Encounter Digital Implementation…

Everyone knows that the increasing speed and complexity of today's designs implies…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Creating An EM Model File

One of the least-fun parts of running power and rail analysis has always been coming…

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SPICE Correlation Made Easy by Encounter Timing System (ETS)

Hello, and welcome to my first blog! As an application engineer in customer support…

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The Case for the Tiny Testcase

I often joke with customers that, although I realize they have to work on large designs…

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Transitioning Your LEF-Based EDI System Design Flow to OpenAccess

The trend of combining analog and digital circuits on a single chip has been growing…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Why You Should Be Running Early DRC

Everyone knows you have to run signoff DRC before you tape out a design. Sometimes…

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Simple Steps to Debug DRC Violations Undetected in EDI System

You've placed and routed your design in the Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI…

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In Case You Missed It – The Most Popular EDI System Knowledge Content Published in…

I mentioned in my first blog one of my roles in customer support is to identify and…

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How To: Bring Up Encounter "man" Pages from a UNIX Prompt

Okay, this one is too cool not to share. The other day a customer and I were trying…

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10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of

In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there…

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Capturing and Processing Encounter Console Output with "redirect"

In my last post I wrote about writing more compact db access scripts with dbGet's…

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Improve Your Productivity With Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) for Encounter Digital Implementation…

As you know, Cadence Online Support is your 24/7 site for getting help and resolving…

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In this blog post I want to highlight the command get_metric that was introduced…

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Writing More Compact Encounter Scripts with dbGet Expressions

Querying the Encounter database with dbGet is typically pretty concise to begin with…

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Adding Custom Shapes and Text is New and Improved in EDI System 11

You may have noticed that in the Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 11…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Understanding the Encounter Power System (EPS) Reports Dir…

No matter how you run your power analysis - with Encounter Power System (EPS) or…

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When One Via Just Doesn’t Cut It – Recommended Settings for NanoRoute Including Multi…

Maximizing the usage of Multi-cut vias by the router is one key to improving yield…

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