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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
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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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Getting Started with EDI 11 – Be Aware of OS and Design Import Changes So Your Migration…

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

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Selective Blockage In EDI 11

Today I'd like to highlight one of the new features in Encounter Digital Implementation…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Where To Find More Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System…

We've had some people joining the forum lately that are either brand-new to Encounter…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Default Naming Conventions in Encounter Digital Implementation…

This is a topic that frequently comes up on both internal and external forums. And…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Change The Background Color Of EDI

Today's tutorial could probably be called a One-Minute Tutorial, since it's so quick…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Multiple View-Only Windows In EDI

Have you ever had a situation where you want to compare two (or more) different areas…

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Five-Minute Tutorial: Avoid SI Problems With Better Pin Placement In Encounter Digital…

I know we're over halfway through January already (where does the time go?), but…

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CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2012 Abstracts Due November 11th, 2011

The Call for Papers for CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2012 is open now through Friday November…

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Encounter Quick Tip: Dimming the Display with F12

I remember when I first started working with the Cooper & Chyan Technology (CCT)…

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Encounter Quick Tip: Finding Available Cell Masters with dbGet

When you first start using dbGet, many of your queries branch off the "top" keyword…

• 1 min read
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Five-Minute Tutorial: The Encounter Digital Implementation Cell Viewer

How many times have you wanted to look at a certain standard cell in the Encounter…

• 1 min read
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Finding EDI Videos

I've seen a few requests in the forums asking about EDI videos. Today I will show…

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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…

• 1 min read
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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…

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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…

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Encounter Puzzler #3 Solution: Renaming a Net Logically

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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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