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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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IC Packagers: Coming Soon to a Blog Near You…

What is new in the Cadence® SiP Layout and APD tools? Is there reason to get excited…

• 1 min read
Digital SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , Allegro Package Designer , SiP Layout

How to Accelerate Your Thermal Aware PI Design?

In modern electronic systems, there may be tens to hundreds of DC rail voltages used…

• 2 min read
PCB , DC , PI , DesignCon , PDN , Power Integrity , OptimizePI , DesignCon 2019 , PowerTree , electrical-thermal co-simulation , Sigrity , thermal , PowerDC

BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Hide the Design Path in Art File

Before manufacturing, PCB fabricators analyze Gerber data to verify if it is manufacturable…

• 1 min read
Gerber , Manufacture , artwork , environment variable , Allegro PCB Editor

BoardSurfers: Place Replicate to Increase IP Reuse and Decrease Design Time

Once you have successfully designed and optimized an area of your substrate today…

• 4 min read
Place Replicate Module , Allegro PCB Editor

Power Plane Loop Inductance Guidance for PDN Designers

Gaining an understanding of power plane loop inductance is important for efficient…

• 1 min read
SI , DesignCon , PDN , Power plane loop inductance , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , Sigrity , PowerSI

BoardSurfers: Validating Your Shapes

Your design is near completion. Except that you’ve got an area of your plane shape…

• 5 min read
PCB Editor , PCB design and layout , Shape Checks , Allegro

BoardSurfers: Dynamic Shape Voiding – Getting the Most Out of the Tool

Dynamic shapes; whether used on a negative or positive artwork layer, for power,…

• 7 min read
Constraint Manager , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

Join us at CDNLive Silicon Valley 2019

Cadence will kick off this year’s CDNLive worldwide user conference series starting…

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CDNLive , CDNLive 2019 , CDNLive San Jose

Exposing Adaptive EQ in 32 Gbps Receivers

It is no secret that serial link data rates have skyrocketed over the past 15 years…

• 1 min read
dfe , SI , FFE , DesignCon , Adaptive Equalization , AGC , IBIS-AMI , EQ , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI , Automatic Gain Control

BoardSurfers: Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design

Today’s dense and complex PCB designs require realistic 3D view to investigate the…

• 3 min read
PCB , Layout , 3D , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

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…

• 3 min read
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…

• 6 min read
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
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