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In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jeff Critten describes the key benefits of the Cadence® Cloud-Hosted Design Solution in providing a total solution for companies seeking to move entire electronic design projects to the cloud.

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Modern systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) continue to increase in complexity, adding more components and calculation power to accommodate new performance-hungry applications such as machine learning and autonomous driving.  With increased number of SoC components, such as CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and I/O devices, comes increased demand to correctly model interoperability of various components. Traditional simulation of complex systems…

Rik Lee, the author of today's post, is a PCB Designer with more than 35 years experience in the PCB industry, 25+ of those with the Cadence® Allegro® tools. Currently working with Samtec, he has previously worked for both Cadence and EMA, focusing on back-end PCB layout tool support. 

You come across an issue when using the tools, but you don’t understand why. Being able to troubleshoot an issue, and if needed…

In part 1 of this two-part blog post, we analyzed how you can define a parts lifecycle manager, define and assign lifecycle states to parts, then distribute the latest parts to designers. In part 2, you're the designer and you want to know which parts to use in your design.

The initial PCB design – how did you come up with it? Doodled it on a piece of paper? Hashed it out in conference room meetings where at least…