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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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Teardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically

Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad…

• 4 min read
PCB Layout and routing , IC Packaging and SiP Design , PCB Editor , Allegro PCB Editor

Simulation of LPDDR4X Interface: What Designers Need to Know and Do

System designers are familiar with standard DDR4 RAM components but with the demands…

• 2 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , LPDDR4 , DesignCon , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , Channel simulation , Sigrity , BER , SystemSI

Take a lesson from the Amish...

“Time to design completion” is almost always the primary metric and the cause for…

• 1 min read
collaboration , SiP , packaging , Symphony , IC package design

Simulation for a Song: Downloading Models from the Web and Associating with Parts…

While on a long drive, I like to sing along; say Eye of the Tiger or Johny B Goode…

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capture , Models , PSPICE , OrCAD , simulation

Cadence Sigrity at DesignCon 2019

Happy new year! We want to invite you to visit us in booth 711 on the DesignCon…

• 1 min read
SI , PI , electronics/photonic design automation , DesignCon , Multi-Gigabit , Advanced IC packaging , Power Integrity , IC package design , IBIS-AMI , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , SerDes , DDR , Sigrity

DesignCon 2019: Is this the Year?

2019 has started --- is this the year of advanced packaging, where system design…

• 1 min read
DesignCon , packaging

10 Things You Might Have Missed in 2018

We’re sure it’s been a busy year for you. So busy that you might have missed the…

• 2 min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Symphony , Power Integrity , PCB design , Sigrity , DFM , Allegro

Chiplets -- Reinventing Systems Design

A new paradigm shift is now happening in the electronics industry with systems design…

• 3 min read
SI , PI , chiplets , multi-die approach , chiplet-based systems , Power Integrity , IC package design , systems design , Signal Integrity , interposer extraction , Sigrity , heterogenous integration , advanced packaging technology

How Do I Know What Functionality to Put on Which PCB Board?

There’s only so much you can do with a single printed circuit board (PCB). We’ve…

• 4 min read
PCB , multi-board systems , multiboard PCB , PCB design , multiboard systems , Multi-board PCB , Allegro

How To Maintain Connectivity in a Multi-Board PCB System

Today’s electronics often incorporate multiple interconnected printed circuit boards…

• 4 min read
PCB SI , PCB , multiboard PCB , PCB Signal integrity , PCB design , multiboard pcb system , multiboard systems

How is a Multi-board PCB System Assembly Different from Rigid-Flex Assembly

When people typically think of multi-board PCB design, they tend to picture racks…

• 4 min read
multi-board , multi-board systems , multiboard PCB , HighSpeed , multiboard , PCB design , multiboard systems , Allegro

Real World (Unexpected) Examples of Multi-Board PCB Systems

What do reusable rockets, self-driving cars, and the blockchain have in common? Besides…

• 4 min read
multi-board pcb system , multi-board , system architecture design , system level design , PCB system design , electronic system , system simulation , multiboard , system architect software , multiboard pcb system , elecronic system design

How To Maintain Connectivity in a Multiboard PCB System

By John Burkhert Jr Bringing a multiboard system together is a chance for the designer…

• 7 min read
PCB , allegro edm , multi-board , System-Level Design , Allegro PCB Designer Team Design Option , multiboard , system , PCB design , pcb system , Allegro

The Day a PCB Was Born

By John Burkhert Jr I want to take you back to a project that highlights a few…

• 6 min read
PCB , system level design , multiboard , system , PCB design , pcb system

Winning With Fewer PCBs

By John Burkhert Jr The business world keeps score with dollars and cents. The…

• 5 min read
PCB , PCB system design , Allegro PCB DesignTrue DFM Technology , multiboard , PCB design , DFM

New Sigrity 3D Workbench Used in Designing and Optimizing Next Generation High-Speed…

2018 is going to be remembered as the year of 3D for Sigrity. As part of Cadence…

• 2 min read
Sigrity 2018 release , 3D Workbench , Mechanical Structures , CDNLive , High Speed Structure Optimization , PowerSI 3D EM Extraction Option , 3DEM , 3D , Sigrity , High Speed design

EE Thermal 101 – Thermal basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 4 of 4)

In part 3 of this series, we used the concept of thermal resistors to develop a thermal…

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EE Thermal , temperature , Thermal Basics , Heat transfer , PowerDC

EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 3 of 4)

In part 2 of this blog series we looked at the three different modes of heat transfer…

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EE Thermal , temperature , Thermal Basics , Heat transfer , PowerDC

EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 2 of 4)

In part 1 of this blog series we discussed the duality between the electrical and…

• 5 min read
EE Thermal , temperature , Thermal Basics , Heat transfer , PowerDC

Cadence Sigrity OptimizePI Technology Highlighted at CDNLive SV 2018

This year’s CDNLive Silicon Valley user conference had more than 100 presentations…

• 1 min read
PI , PCB PI , Power Integrity , Sigrity OptimizePI , OptimizePI , Sigrity

EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 1 of 4)

Have you ever had a product exceed temperature specifications and wondered what you…

• 5 min read
EE Thermal , temperature , Thermal Basics , Heat transfer , PowerDC

Improve Your Circuit Manufacturing Yield with Monte Carlo Analysis in PSpice

Generic Spice Technology is past. Let me introduce you to the powerful Monte Carlo…

• less than a min read
RF , OrCAD Capture , PSPICE , PCB design , simulation

What Is COM /JCOM Channel Compliance All About?

In today’s world of double-digit gigabit-per-second data rates it is imperative that…

• 3 min read
SI , JCOM , Channel Operating Margin (COM) , COM/JCOM , JCOM channel compliance , COM , Channel Operating Margin , Signal Integrity , SystemSI

Designing a PCB in Harmony with Your 3D Extraction Expert

You know who we are talking about. The guy in the corner with all the PhDs hanging…

• 1 min read
SI , 3D EM , High Speed Structure Optimization , 3D EM HSSO , 3D EM High Speed Structure Optimizer , Signal Integrity , 3D , HSSO , Sigrity , System Serial Link , Allegro

Power-Aware SI DDR4 Simulation: You Have a Choice!

Simultaneous switching noise (SSN) caused by simultaneous switching outputs (SSO…

• 4 min read
Speed2000 , DDR4 , FDTD , power-aware , SystemSI , SSN

Make Reliable Designs That Won’t Fail In The Real World!

Heard about the ongoing recalls in the Automotive and Cellphone industry? Let's address…

• less than a min read
RF , OrCAD Capture , PSPICE , PCB design , simulation

Reduce Time-to-Market for Your System-level Designs Using PSpice Systems Option

Looking for a technology to simulate analog/digital mix-signal electronics alongside…

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co-simulation , PSPICE , System-Level Design , OrCAD

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (8 of 8)

Automated Compliance Checking With detailed post-layout interconnect in place, and…

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Serial link analysis , SI , IBIS-AMI , PCIe , Signal Integrity , Compliance Checking , SerDes , Sigrity
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