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Low-power DDR (LPDDR) SDRAM has been one of the most widely used memories in the semiconductor market today. It is used in a diverse set of applications that span mobile/handheld devices, IoT, client and server, automotive, virtual reality/gaming consoles, robotics, data centers, and artificial intelligence (AI) applications, just to name a few.

On April 10 and 11, 2024, Cadence hosted the JEDEC LPDDR Task Group, which…

The traditional synthesis process relies on the Wireload models to estimate the delays. This often leads to difficulty in closing timing in the backend, leading to multiple iterations and turnaround time!! Are you ready to trade off PPA results in this fast-growing technology era?

With advanced-process nodes, a standard cell's physical delay, net delay, and congestion makes the design optimization more complex. The real…

Today’s electrical engineers (EEs) are being asked to design increasingly complex products in less time than ever before. To satisfy design requirements and produce designs on schedule, EEs require solutions that let them not only capture design logic, but also run meaningful simulation and analysis, ensuring first-pass success more often.

What is the EE cockpit paradigm? What kind of design checks and analyses…

We all know the benefits of gate-level simulation, but we also all know the pain of trying to run it. Setting up and running GLS on large designs is a huge time sink for engineers—but what if there was a better way? A large team at Northrop Grumman faced this exact issue working on a large ASIC. They found some clever ways to vastly speed up their gate-level simulation, and they shared their experience in a presentation…

Picture this: Your new hire has completed their mandatory HR training and now needs to ramp up quickly in the tools and technologies that will make them productive. What online courses do you suggest and from where? 

Or, you ARE the new hire and are feeling a bit lost. You need to ramp up the tools and technologies used in your group and start being productive. You want to demonstrate initiative by finding the resources…

Silicon Photonics has the potential to revolutionize many industries. Photonics, the science and technology of generating, controlling, and detecting light, has moved into mainstream electronic designs. This is particularly true for communications hardware, where bandwidth demands are so great that only photonic ICs (PICs) offer a viable solution. Other key application areas include data centers, antenna and RF systems…

Testing digital IC designs is crucial for several reasons, including cost savings, time efficiency, and the removal of inefficiencies. Testing is an essential step to ensure the accuracy and robustness of modern chips. Despite its importance, there are several reasons why testing might not always be as thorough as it should be: one major reason is that your design is not testable.

The Cadence Test solution, with tight…

Equivalence checking is a formal verification technique used to prove that two designs behave identically. It's particularly useful in electronic design automation (EDA) for designing integrated circuits. Here's a breakdown of the comparison process:

• Setup: Two designs are loaded into the equivalence checker. One…