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Breakfast Bytes: International Women's Day and Mentoring Women at Cadence

Paul McLellan

March 8 is International Women's Day, this year falling on a Sunday. When you read this, it will probably be Monday (or later). Normally I don't post on Sundays, but this time I'm making an exception to get the date right. You might assume that Inter...
- 8 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 8th March 2020

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/oAtYdiwqPIw Made in front of my TV (camera Carey Guo) Monday: FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G Tuesday: From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch Wednesday: RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Priso...
- 8 Mar 2020
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 极致PCB设计全流程 | 技巧一：如何设置参数定制最佳视窗

SDA China

设计图纸导入之后，我们即将启动PCB设计，如何使我们的设计过程能更加得心应手？请紧跟我们的学习内容，本期将分享设计工具的参数设置，使我们更好掌控设计（演示工具为Allegro® PCB Designer软件）：根据设计需求，定制适用的最佳视窗及参数根据连接关系不同，设置鼠线颜色鼠标悬停时，显示强相关信息关注微信公众号“Cadence楷登PCB及封装资源中心”，在微信后台回复关键词“PCB全流程”即可get完整课程计划与资料汇总...
- 6 Mar 2020
Digital Design: Library Characterization Tidbits: Exploring Intuitive Means to Characterize Large Mixed-Signal Blocks

AbhaRawat

Let’s review a key characteristic feature of Cadence Liberate AMS Mixed-Signal Characterization that offers to you ease of use along with many other benefits like automation of standard Liberty model creation and improvement of up to 20X throughput.
- 6 Mar 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Five Steps to IC-Driven Package Design

mrigashira

They say Moore's law is slowing. It may be slowing but it is still running - it has not stopped! And, it has been running at full throttle for quite a few decades now. The net result of this run? Well, you can't design ICs in isolation from the...
- 5 Mar 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Video Diary: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Part 2

Dishika Majumdar

Learn more about Cadence Education Services with this blog, which includes a list of training programs for various Virtuoso products and guidance on how to become Cadence certified in a certain technology or skill.
- 5 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Razor Blades, Banking, and Antitrust

Paul McLellan

One person whose opinions I value is Ben Thompson of Stratechery. He produces a daily newsletter from his lair in Taiwan but once a week it is free for anyone to read (I don't have a subscription so I only see the free ones). Also, roughly weekl...
- 5 Mar 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Bending the Flex Boards

mrigashira

When you design a rigid-flex board, the focus is, of course, on the bend. Your design might be bend to install (stable flexion) - it will be bent only a few times while installing. Or it might be dynamic - it will be bent regularly. It's important to...
- 4 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Prison

Paul McLellan

There is always an interesting sounding presentation at RSA that looks like it might be a good blog post topic just based on the title. This year it was I Had My Mom Break Into A Prison Then We Had Pie by John Strand of Black Hills Information ...
- 4 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch

Paul McLellan

Before I rejoined Cadence, I did a fair bit of writing for SemiWiki. One of the sponsoring companies was Methodics. I lived in San Francisco at 14th street, and Methodics had their office on 9th street, so for once in my life, I could walk from my h...
- 3 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G

Paul McLellan

Last week the FCC approved $9.7B to quickly clear the C-band for 5G. This could be a big deal. It is just the first step, approving the payout. Before I explain why I think this is a big deal, let me explain the story so far. Well, I already have, i...
- 2 Mar 2020
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 极致PCB设计全流程 I 基础一：设计图纸导入

SDA China

PCB设计启动，原理图、结构图的设计信息导入PCB设计工具时，您是否会有以下疑惑：执行命令时，每个选项有什么意义？ DXF、IDX…这些文件都是什么？如何选择才能保证快速高质量完成PCB设计？ “极致PCB设计全流程”第一期基础篇“设计图纸导入”为您答疑解惑。关注微信公众号“Cadence楷登PCB及封装资源中心”，在微信后台回复关键词“PCB全流程”即可get完整课程计划与资...
- 28 Feb 2020
Life at Cadence: Black History Is American History

Johnas Street

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin To honor Black History Month, I wanted to learn more from some of our Black employees about what this month means to ...
- 28 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Designing Radios: Integrand

Paul McLellan

Yesterday, in my post Designing Radios and Radar: AWR, I discussed the acquisition of AWR, which recently closed. But Cadence did a second acquisition in the RF space already. We recently announced that we have acquired Integrand Softw...
- 28 Feb 2020
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Masten Space Systems: Reactive Flow and Heat Transfer Optimization for Reusable Spacecraft

AnneMarie CFD

Authors: Allan Grosvenor, Aerodynamics Lead, Masten Space Systems, USA - Jean-Charles Bonaccorsi, Technical Director, NUMECA USA - Jan Anker, Head of Combustion Modeling Group, NUMECA International Masten Space Systems is a private company founded ...
- 27 Feb 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Auto Device Array - A One-Stop-Shop for Modgens

Aneesh Shastry

Hello everybody! I'm back with a new blog on Modgens. In this blog, I'm going to talk about an important new feature—the Auto Device Array form. Read the blog to know more about how this new feature has simplified the tasks of creating and customizing Modgens.
- 27 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Designing Radios and Radar: AWR

Paul McLellan

As you probably know already, Cadence recently acquired AWR from National Instruments. I sat down with Sherry Hess to learn more about AWR's history and product line, and generally get a bit more color on AWR. The big picture is that AWR's to...
- 27 Feb 2020
Digital Design: Are You Struggling to Meet the Timing for Your Design? Stop Worrying!

MJ Cad

We know your designs are complex and so is timing analysis. We cannot change the design but we have made the timing analysis process easier for you. Timing closure is one of the most critical components of a digital design. To be able to meet timing ...
- 26 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: UMC Test Chip for Cadence Interface IP Is Working

Paul McLellan

Who was Taiwan's first semiconductor company? Who was Taiwan's first foundry? If you said UMC, you are right, but you probably didn't. UMC stands for United Microelectronics Corporation (although people rarely spell it out, they just use t...
- 26 Feb 2020
Life at Cadence: Tis’ the Season to Give

TramN

Cadence recently completed our fourth annual Season of Giving company-wide volunteer campaign. As one of the managers of our Cadence Cares community programs, I had the opportunity to work with a network of over 40 Cadence volunteer leads across 32 d...
- 25 Feb 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Variable Text Labels and Template Reuse

Tyler

For many, the information labels always go in a consistent location in the design so that they appear at the same location on a printout of the design. If you want these text elements in the same place in all your designs, but each design has its own set of values ...
- 25 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Colossus: the First Programmable Digital Electronic Computer

Paul McLellan

Today is the first day of the RSA security conference in San Francisco. I will be attending so you can look for some security-related posts in the coming few weeks. But all the cryptography that will be on view in San Francisco is a great excuse to t...
- 25 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: DesignCon: The Future of Fiber Optic Communications

Paul McLellan

At the recent DesignCon, Chris Cole gave the keynote The Future of Fiber Optic Communications: Data Center and Mobile. He was working at Finisar who got acquired, and he had just begun work at photonics startup Luminous Computing. Judging by the...
- 24 Feb 2020
定制IC芯片设计 : Virtuosity: Property Editor可用性增强功能

KomalJohar

“可用性概念“在我们的生活中随处可见，基于这个概念而产生的产品，便于使用及访问，并且更吸引眼球。因此，为了不断提升产品的可用性，在Virtuoso® Layout Suite中，我们增强了属性编辑器(Property Editor)的功能，使其更紧凑且更满足用户需求。毫无疑问，Property Editor是Virtuoso 平台最常用的功能，几乎所有的Virtuoso 用户都使用它来编辑设计元素。如果您还未注意到Property Editor 的可用性增...
- 23 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd February 2020

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/CPNy6CjnvEs Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: President's Day Tuesday: DVCon 2020 Preview Wednesday: What If It's Not 5G, But Satellites? Thursday: Getting on to the Internet in 1993 Friday: DesignCon: Design for Security...
- 23 Feb 2020

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