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DesignCon 2025 Highlights and Papers on Demand

The Cadence MSA team had a GREAT DesignCon highlighting how Cadence can help you…

MSATeam
• 2 min read
featured , DesignCon , Advanced IC packaging , PCB design

Designing High-Performance Sensor Packages to Ensure Optimized Performance

In an era where technology and connectivity reign supreme, electronic, and mechanical…

Vinod Khera
• 4 min read
featured , IC Packaging , Allegro X Design Platform , EDA , MCAD-ECAD

Machine Learning Is Revolutionizing IBIS-AMI Optimization in High-Speed Design

The complexity of IBIS-AMI models used in simulating serial links has increased to…

MSATeam
• 1 min read
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

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What's Good about the new "Class" Scope for Match Groups in Constraint Manager?

In the SPB16.01 release, for the Constraint Manager in DEHDL, the is a new scope…

• 1 min read
Constraint Manager , Class Scope , PCB design

CDNLive! MVP discusses modeling 6 Gbps Serial Links with IBIS-AMI modeling

Congratulations to Donald Telian and his colleagues at Hitachi and IBM on winning…

• less than a min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB Signal and power integrity , IBIS-AMI , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , CDNLive!

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in PCB Librarian?

You may recall a post I made a couple months ago about What's Good About Differential…

• 1 min read
DEHDL , Library and design data management , Design Entry HDL , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL

CDNLive! - 10 Gbit package design paper available to conference attendees

For those of you that attended CDNLive! but may have missed the presentation on multi…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , 3D-IC , TSV , Allegro 16.2 , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SI analysis and modeling

TSV, mainstream or niche?

I'm sure many of you will have read the article in Advanced Packaging click_here…

• 1 min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , IDMs , TSV , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: A brief Re-cap

Wow - what a great time I had attending this year's CDNLive! 2008 event in San Jose…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

CDNLive! Track 8 - The Place to Be!

Lively presentation on IBIS-AMI modeling, multi-gigabit package design, 3D field…

• less than a min read
CDNLive , cadence , SPB , SPB16.2 , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 3 ... Product Roadmaps, More Presentations, and Poker…

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Each day continues to show the value that…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 2 ... Welcome, Keynote Speakers, Presentations

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Wow! What an exciting, power packed, and…

• 1 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design , Michael Catrambone

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 1 ... from the Techtorials!

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose The first day, is always considered the…

• 1 min read
PCB Layout and routing , CDNLive , DEHDL , SPB16.2 , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , CDNLive! , Allegro PCB Editor , ConceptHDL

What's good about memristors? Who is planning on using them?

I recently read an interesting article in the August 18, 2008 Electronic Engineering…

• 1 min read
memristors , PCB design , Electronic Engineering Times

Analog/RF chip designers don't care about the Package?

So I have an observation that I would your thoughts/input on. On several occassions…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Analog chip design , IC Packaging & SiP design , Virtuoso , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , design chain

How stable is your IC Package's PDN?

There are three goals for a power a delivery network (PDN): sufficiency, efficiency…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SSN , DDR3

Techtorials, Demos, Roadmaps ... Poker?

What do these 4 have in common? CDNLive! 2008 San Jose - September 8 - 11, 2008.…

• 2 min read
PCB Layout and routing , CDNLive , DEHDL , OrCAD Capture , PCB Signal and power integrity , Capture CIS , Library and design data management , SPB , High-Density Interconnect , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , AMS simulation , Allegro PCB Editor , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL , SPB16.01 , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI

Breaking down the 'virtual' wall

In the last 3-4 months I have seen, and been involved in, a flurry of discussions…

• 1 min read
IP , cadence , Allegro 16.2 , IC Packaging & SiP design , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

Verifying multi-technology chips-in-a-SiP, fact or fiction?

With everyone talking about System-in-Package (SiP), one challenge that often gets…

• less than a min read
Analog and RF SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

SPB 16.2 release - Constraint Driven HDI PCB Design Flow

Today's SPB 16.2 release is significant for the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD families…

• 3 min read
PCB Layout and routing , NVIDIA , Harris , High-Density Interconnect , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , OrCAD PCB Editor , HDI

What's good about database parameters and XML import/export?

In the SPB16.01 release, you can now import/export database parameters from Allegro…

• 1 min read
PCB Layout and routing , XML import/export , SPB , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , SPB16.01 , OrCAD PCB Editor

PartMiner Launches Unique Integration with Cadence OrCAD Capture

Cadence OrCAD Capture is integrated with PartMiner. As a long time EDA librarian…

• 1 min read
Steven Kamin , OrCAD Capture , PartMiner , PCB design

What's good about Capture-CIS Digi-Key Integration?

So, what's good about Capture-CIS Digi-Key Integration? Quite a bit actually! This…

• 1 min read
Capture CIS , PCB design , Component Information Portal (CIP) , Digi-Key Integration

What's good about CheckSysConf? Plenty!

While I suspect that many of our customers have used or heard about the CheckSysConf…

• 3 min read
CheckSysConf , PCB design

Second Generation PCI Express spreading roots

According to Jag Bolaria of the Linley Group, the 5 Gbps version of PCI Express…

• less than a min read
PCB Signal and power integrity , SPB , SerDes , PCB design

Did you know? Enriched schematic content available in PDF files from DEHDL (ConceptHDL…

For years, Concept-SCALD, and ConceptHDL (DEHDL) customers have been using various…

• 1 min read

Shocking Technologies Becomes a Cadence Connections Member

In an announcement concurrent with Semicon West 2008, Shocking Technologies has …

• less than a min read
PCB Layout and routing , electrostatic discharge (ESD) dangers , Shocking Technologies , SPB , PCB design

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA?

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA? Quite a bit actually! In…

• 1 min read
ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , PCB design , Differential Pair Support

PakSi-E "ocho" fuels Cadence Package SI solutions

In case you haven't heard, Allegro Package SI and Cadence SiP SI solutions now work…

• less than a min read
Digital SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , SI analysis and modeling

Xrosstalk talks AMI

There's a great issue of Xrosstalk magazine out there that talks about algorthmic…

• less than a min read
PCB Signal and power integrity , SerDes , PCB design

How many DEHDL (Concept) designers customize their DEHDL environment?

I'm curious with the availablity within DEHDL (ConceptHDL) of customizing the menus…

• less than a min read
DEHDL , Library and design data management , Front-end PCB design , ConceptHDL
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