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Life at Cadence: The Returnship Journey - Part 4

Ale Costa

Sanjita Chokshi’s Journey There are many reasons why working professionals take time off from their careers. It can be a daunting experience to re-enter the workforce after a long break. To help ease the transition, Cadence offers a 16-week ret...
- 2 Oct 2020
Analog/Custom Design: SPECTRE 20.1 Release Now Available

SpectreReleaseTeam

The SPECTRE 20.1 release is now available.
- 2 Oct 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Breakfast Bytes Update: DATE, OpenROAD, Starlink

Paul McLellan

This is one of my occasional posts where I update some posts that I covered earlier, but which don't justify an entire post of their own. However, I ended up with so much material that I split this post into two since it got so long. In yesterda...
- 2 Oct 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Virtuosity: 新しい柔軟なサブウィンドウ

Custom IC Japan

Cadence® Virtuoso® Visualization and Analysis でのプロットは、ウィンドウまたはサブウィンドウにプロットすることができます。サブウィンドウでは異なる解析のプロットを並べて表示することができます。IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1まではサブウィンドウはあまり柔軟ではありませんでした。現在ではこれらが改善され、サブウィンドウのグリッドレイアウトを最大6 x 8グリッドまで選択できるようになりました。さらに、サブウィンドウはサイズを簡単に変...
- 1 Oct 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Breakfast Bytes Update: Learning & Support, Undersea Datacenter

Paul McLellan

This is one of my occasional posts where I update some posts that I covered earlier, but which don't justify an entire post of their own. However, I ended up with so much material that I split this post into two since it got so long. Support and ...
- 1 Oct 2020
Breakfast Bytes: GTC 2020

Paul McLellan

Recently, GLOBALFOUNDRIES held this year's technology conference GTC. Of course, it was held virtually. You probably already know that a couple of years ago, GF decided to abandon the race to single-digit nanometer processes. In particular, they ...
- 30 Sep 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre X Update

Stefan Wuensche

About a year ago, we released Spectre X in the SPECTRE 19.1 base release. Since then, we have released multiple SPECTRE 19.1 ISR releases with incremental Spectre X enhancements. The SPECTRE 20.1 release with major Spectre X enhancements is coming out in early October. In this blog, we'll discuss the Spectre X enhancements that have been delivered in the Spectre 19.1 ISR releases.
- 29 Sep 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Rev Up Your Designs Using Color Themes in Allegro 3D Canvas

Siddharth Makkar

You will agree if I say that the right use of color gets attention, enhances clarity, differentiates items, facilitates the identification of issues, and hence improves productivity. In PCB design, colors are particularly important for the reasons just mentioned, and colors very aptly have...
- 29 Sep 2020
The India Circuit: Ankita Kanojia: A Story of Grit and Determination

Madhavi Rao

At Cadence, giving back to the communities where we live and work is an integral part of the our culture. Helping others is deeply rooted in our DNA and extending this into our communities is one aspect of how we make a difference in the world. One s...
- 29 Sep 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: The Importance of Proper DC Net Identification

Tyler

It may surprise some of you, but I often receive databases in which the power and ground nets are not properly identified. Many times, I get these with questions about slow performance during editing actions in the design or a basic confusion of why ...
- 29 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: NXP Glows in Tensilica HiFi

Paul McLellan

One trend that many people have remarked on, is that neural network inference is moving to edge devices. This means that instead of running on big multicore cloud servers with attached GPUs or FPGAs, the network has to run on something like your smar...
- 29 Sep 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Start Your Engines: ミックスシグナル・シミュレーションを高速化するためのヒント

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。ミックスシグ...
- 28 Sep 2020
Digital Design: What’s inside Joules Graphical User Interface!!

Neha Joshi
Power is HOT and it touches everything and everybody! But we can help with power analysis for your chip!!

Do you want to:

Sneak peek inside the schematic?

Analyze power for various blocks?

Identify the relation of hot cells with RTL?

Explore annotation settings?

Joules RTL Power Solution GUI (Graphical User Interface) helps you to analyze/debug the power estimation/results using several GUI capabilities.

Are you ready…
- 28 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: The CHIPS Alliance

Paul McLellan

On September 17, there was a meeting of the CHIPS Alliance. It was online, of course. In three hours, there were ten presentations. CHIPS is actually an acronym, Common Hardware for Interfaces, Processors, and Systems. The presentations, and The CHIP...
- 28 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 27th September 2020

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/EUDdGqdmTUU Made in "the Alps" Monday: Complete RF Solution: Think Outside the Chip Tuesday: The First Decade of RISC-V: A Worldwide Phenomenon Wednesday: The European Processor Initiative Thursday: Should the Government Ad...
- 27 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: CadenceLIVE Europe 2020 Preview

Paul McLellan

Normally, in May, I'd have been off to Unterschleißheim, a suburb of Munich where historically we've held what used to be called CDNLive EMEA. We renamed this CadenceLIVE Europe and pushed it out from its original May dates to Octo...
- 25 Sep 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: クロス・ファブリックな電磁界解析 - IC、パッケージ、ボードのデータをマージするという面倒な作業をなくす

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...
- 24 Sep 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Virtuosity: What's New in Run Plan – パート IV

Custom IC Japan

このブログは、what’s new blogシリーズの一部です。このブログの関連リソースのセクションに、このシリーズの以前のブログへのリンクがあります。ユーザーが最新の設計検証の複雑さを克服できるようにするために、我々はRun Planアシスタントのユーザビリティの改善と改良のために絶え間ない努力を行ってきました。このスペースの投稿で、Virtuoso® ADE AssemblerのRun Planの新たな改善を確認して下さい。 IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1のVirt...
- 24 Sep 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Usability Enhancements in Simulation Driven Routing

Parula

Since IC6.1.8 and ICADVM18.1 was released, we have continued our drive to improve the usability of Simulation Driven Routing. Read through this blog to know the key enhancements in this area.
- 24 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Should the Government Adopt Commercial Best Practice?

Paul McLellan

There is something called Betteridge's Law of Headlines that if a headline or title asks a question, then the answer is "no". I think the title of today's blog post, however, is a definitive "yes". I'm thinking about d...
- 24 Sep 2020
The India Circuit: We Have Winners! … Of The CadenceLIVE 2020 India Best Presentation Award

sangramjena

CadenceLIVE 2020 India, our first digital conference held on 9-10 September and what an event it was! With 75 technical paper presentations, four keynotes, a virtual exhibition area, and fun gamification, CadenceLIVE once again proved to be one of th...
- 23 Sep 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Create Custom Footprints with ECAD MCAD Library Creator

Sanjiv Bhatia

For every PCB designer, adding correct footprints to the PCB is important. Also, sometimes when you are creating a new project, your client demands a new component to be added to the design for which you do not have a footprint.
- 23 Sep 2020
Breakfast Bytes: The European Processor Initiative

Paul McLellan

At the recent RISC-V Global Forum, one of the presenters was Jean-Marc Denis, chairman of the European Processor Initiative (EPI), or as he described it, the European approach to the exascale age and the road towards sovereignty. The project is drive...
- 23 Sep 2020
カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル: Start Your Engines: AMS UNLで先進のデジタル・テストベンチをシームレスに再利用する

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。 UVM (Univer...
- 22 Sep 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Creating Standards-Compliant Packages

Tyler

When you are creating a BGA package component, you are, almost certainly, going to be implementing one that adheres to JEDEC standards. This means selecting from a set of available package size and pin pitch combinations, using a specific, grid-based...
- 22 Sep 2020

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