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カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Start Your Engines: Spectre Xシミュレータでアナログ・ミックスシグナル検証を高速化する

Custom IC Japan

Cadence® Spectre® AMS Designer は、高いパフォーマンスのミックスシグナル・シミュレーション・システムです。複数エンジンの使用や、さまざまなプラットフォームから実行できる機能により、ミックスシグナル・デザイン検証を「活性化」し、市場競争でチェッカーフラッグを受けることができます。Start Your Enginesブログ・シリーズは、シミュレーションのパフォーマンスをチューンアップし、生産性向上に役立つヒントと洞察を提供します。 Bonjou...
- 23 Nov 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: How to Define Your Own Team-Certified Wire Profiles

Tyler

Back at the start of 2020, we talked about why you shouldn't use the default wire profile in your actual design. Today, I want to take this a step further. If you do wire bond designs, you are doubtless aware of the certified bond wire profiles t...
- 23 Nov 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Enabling System Analysis And Implementation Through Libraries

Guru Rao

Welcome to a post on how to create component and padstack libraries for use in the Virtuoso platform-driven multiple technology flows. This post describes the tasks of a librarian, who must assemble component IP from various sources and create the views and documentation that can be used by designers.
- 23 Nov 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : (P)SpiceItUp: Verifying and Optimizing Designs with PSpice A/D

Shailly

PSpice® A/D is a fully featured analog and mixed-signal simulator that can be integrated with OrCAD® and Allegro® tools. With PSpice A/D you can improve design functionality and reliability, and also verify the electrical performance of d...
- 23 Nov 2020
Academic Network: Become a Cadence Academic Network Certified Instructor!

Anton Klotz

Are you a lab instructor sitting at home right now? Have you completed some Cadence Online Training courses for your education and earned Digital Badges for personal promotion and spicing up your CV on LinkedIn? Well done! You can go even further and...
- 20 Nov 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Conserve Power—Importing and Exporting Power Intent

bsachin

In this blog, I will focus on the key enablers, which are required before the power-aware designs undergo the verification cycle. This is the ultimate test that confirms the robustness and efficiency of a design.
- 20 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Thanksgiving Off-Topic: Edelweiss

Paul McLellan

It's Thanksgiving next week in the U.S. I am taking the whole week off and Breakfast Bytes will not appear. So today is the day before the break and I always indulge myself by writing about something completely off-topic. Let's look at some t...
- 20 Nov 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre X アップデート

Custom IC Japan

およそ1年前、SPECTRE 19.1 baseリリースにてSpectre Xシミュレータをリリースしました。それ以来、後続のSPECTRE 19.1 ISRリリースでのSpectre Xでは、多数の改善が行われました。2020年10月初旬にリリースされたSPECTRE 20.1リリースでもSpectre Xに関連するいくつかの大きな改善が含まれています。このブログでは、Spectre Xに関連するアップデートと、SPECTRE 19.1 ISRリリースで提供された改善の概要について紹介します。...
- 19 Nov 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Start Your Engines: Mixed-Signal Modeling Methods for Converting an Electrical Signal to a Real Number

Andre Baguenie

This blog explains how to convert an electrical signal to a real number in your design.
- 19 Nov 2020
Digital Design: Library Characterization Tidbits: Rewind and Replay - 3

Jommy

This blog provides a summary of the last five blogs posted in the Library Characterization Tidbits blog series.
- 19 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: RISC-V Summit 2020 Preview

Paul McLellan

The third of three events taking place in the first three weeks of December is the RISC-V Summit. The RISC-V Summit takes place from December 8 to 10. You can read my preview posts about the other two December events from earlier in th...
- 19 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: IEDM 2020 Preview

Paul McLellan

Every December is the IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The somewhat unusual name comes about since it has been going for over 60 years and, in the early days, it was all about vacuum tubes (valves in English English), with transist...
- 18 Nov 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Virtuoso RF Solutionのクイックスタート

Custom IC Japan

'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' はVirtuoso RFソリューションとVirtuoso MultiTechの機能及びその潜在能力の紹介を目的としたブログの連載です。ではどのようにVirtuosoがMaxwellと出会うのでしょうか。現在、VirtuosoプラットフォームはRF設計をサポートしており、RF設計者は物理的な放射の影響をマクスウェルの方程式で測ります。この連載では、有益なソフトウェアの改善点にスポットを当てて解説するだけでなく、VirtuosoのIC...
- 17 Nov 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Why You Can’t Start a Co-Design Die in Allegro Package Designer

Tyler

Let’s investigate this question today, as I’ve been asked a few times over the years by curious designers. The question is one of wanting to start from the Allegro Package Designer environment and begin prototyping a die pin layout. If yo...
- 17 Nov 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Decoding the Mechanics of What If in Voltus-Fi-XL

Pallabi R

What if you could foresee potential changes in your design and analyze their impact in advance? I’m sure, your life would have been easier, isn’t it? Read on to know more about the what-if or ECO analysis feature in Voltus-Fi-XL.
- 17 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: WEAA EDA/IP Product of the Year: Digital Full Flow with iSpatial Technology

Paul McLellan

Aspencore Media, the publishing house that owns EDN (where I first started blogging, as it happens) and the global EE Times publications, selected the Cadence Digital Full Flow with iSpatial as the EDA/IP Product of the Year in the 2020 World Electro...
- 17 Nov 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Start Your Engines: AMS Designerのローパワー・ミックスシグナル・シミュレーションにおける２つの重要なコンポーネント

Custom IC Japan

Cadence® Spectre® AMS Designer は、高いパフォーマンスのミックスシグナル・シミュレーション・システムです。複数エンジンの使用や、さまざまなプラットフォームから実行できる機能により、ミックスシグナル・デザイン検証を「活性化」し、市場競争でチェッカーフラッグを受けることができます。Start Your Enginesブログ・シリーズは、シミュレーションのパフォーマンスをチューンアップし、生産性向上に役立つヒントと洞察を提供します。ローパワー・...
- 16 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Cadence 5th Annual Photonics Event

Paul McLellan

Coming up on December 1 - 3 is the 5th annual Cadence Photonics event, although it is now under the CadenceCONNECT brand. Of course, it will be a virtual event. Unlike in previous years, the logistics make it impossible to have a hands-on workshop as...
- 16 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Cadence Cloud: The Video Version

Paul McLellan

Recently, Cadence released a series of videos about all the various aspects of Cadence Cloud. I'll start by summarizing them here, but mostly I'll just let the videos speak for themselves. I've written about Cadence Cloud quite a bit, so if you prefe...
- 13 Nov 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Virtuosity:Cadence Learning and Supportポータルの最新情報 – パート 1

Custom IC Japan

この数か月間の状況において、私たちは皆、新しい活動に熱中し、新しいことを学び、日常生活に何か興味のあることを加えています。似たような路線で、Cadence Learning and SupportポータルのCustom IC Design Flow/Methodology RAKシリーズを紹介します。 Custom IC Design Flow/Methodology RAKシリーズはサンプルデザインフローを案内し、いろいろな設計段階でのCustom IC Virtuoso Platformツ...
- 12 Nov 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Conserve Power— Running In-Design Checks

Manishj

Today’s blog focuses on in-design checks that offer an easy and convenient way to identify common design issues encountered by the design community while implementing low power schemes. It also helps designers to uncover issues early in the design cycle, avoiding an ECO.
- 12 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Formal Verification Signoff for Digital IP

Paul McLellan

At the recent Jasper User Group meeting, one of the presentations was by David Vincenzoni of STMicroelectronics titled Formal Verification Signoff for Digital IP: Can We Use It? At the risk of revealing the answer to the question prematurely, it turn...
- 12 Nov 2020
Verification: Training Insights - Still Relying on Static-Only CDC Signoff? Introducing the JasperGold CDC App!

Nizar Hanna

RTL designers are creating increasingly complex designs, and are under relentless pressure to provide assurance that the designs are complete and correct, before handing off the designs for RTL verification and implementation. This assurance needs to be provided at the block/IP level as those become mature enough for handoff, and again once the design is integrated to subsystem or chip level. Recently, the multitude of…
- 12 Nov 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Arm Goes for It

Paul McLellan

At the recent Linley Processor Conference, Arm presented two processors. This was regarded as so confidential that the original pre-conference version of the presentations didn't contain the Arm one, even though that pdf was only put online about an ...
- 11 Nov 2020
Life at Cadence: Think Beyond the Chip

Tom Beckley

Cadence is certainly well-known for our design tools for integrated circuit (IC) design. I run the custom and analog IC part of our business, built around our Virtuoso platform. But that’s not the focus of this post. Instead, I'd like to encou...
- 11 Nov 2020

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