Community

Blogs
Forums
Resources

Latest Forum Posts

Visit the User Forums »

Latest Blog Posts

Breakfast Bytes: Palladium Cloud

Paul McLellan

Palladium cloud is one part of the Cadence Cloud offering. As you would guess from the name, it allows design groups to make use of Palladium emulation without purchasing a Palladium Emulator. Since a Palladium Emulator is a hardware product, albeit ...
- 13 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 16th to 20th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/Rh4QOHVDzkk Coming from my deck (camera Carey Guo) Monday: VLSI's Secret Business—And a Trip to Japan Tuesday: The First Time I Ate Sushi Was in Japan Wednesday: TDSC and Interconnect Workbench Thursday: Emb...
- 12 Jul 2018
System, PCB, & Package Design : EE Thermal 101 – Thermal Basics for Electrical Engineers (Part 1 of 4)

Sigrity

Have you ever had a product exceed temperature specifications and wondered what you, as an electrical engineer, can do to solve or mitigate thermal issues in your product? As an electrical engineer in today’s world of electronics, we are...
- 12 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: SEMICON West: The AI Tectonic Shift

Paul McLellan

At SEMICON West, there always seems to be a theme. Last year, it was China. See my post SEMICON: China, China, China for what I wrote this time last yearr. In fact, I was so convinced that something big was happening that I went to SEMICON China too,...
- 12 Jul 2018
Verification: AMIQ and Cadence demonstrate Accellera PSS v1.0 interoperability

Steve Brown

There’s nothing like the heat of a DAC demo to stress new technology and the engineers behind it! Such was the case at DAC 2018 at the new locale of Moscone Center West, San Francisco. Cadence and AMIQ were two of several vendors who announced ...
- 11 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Imec Technology Forum US

Paul McLellan

Every year, the Monday before SEMICON West, imec hosts ITF US, the US version of the imec Technology Forum. The big one is held in Brussels in May, and lasts for two days with an amazing dinner on the evening between. The two I have attende...
- 11 Jul 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR21 and ICADV12.3 ISR21 Now Available

Virtuoso Release Team
The IC6.1.7 ISR21 and ICADV12.3 ISR21 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads.

IC6.1.7 ISR21

ICADV12.3 ISR21

For information on supported platforms, compatibility with other Cadence tools, and details of issues resolved in each release, see:

IC6.1.7 ISR21 README

ICADV12.3 ISR21 README

The links above are functional at the time of publishing. If you encounter any links that are now…
- 10 Jul 2018
Whiteboard Wednesdays: Whiteboard Wednesday - Tensilica Hardware Safety Kit ISO 26262

References4U

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Divya Kalimuthu highlights all of the work products that get delivered to a customer as part of the Tensilica Hardware Safety Kit for ISO 26262.

https://youtu.be/w-xLdmAuAxs
- 10 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: DAC: Straight Talk with Lip-Bu Tan

Paul McLellan

For the last few DACs, every lunchtime the DAC Pavilion has an interview by Ed Sperling with an EDA CEO. These used to be called "fireside chats" but since the time a couple of years ago when Lip-Bu's chat was delayed by a real fire (an...
- 10 Jul 2018
Digital Design: A Decade of Building CODECs with High-Level Synthesis

SeanDart

Over the past decade, we have seen a dramatic increase in the size of common video formats. Addressing this has required an evolution in the performance and complexity of video codecs, all the way from MPEG-2 to H.265. When designing hardware for these CODECs, high-level synthesis (HLS) has been a very common implementation tool of choice, due to the huge productivity gains provided by HLS and the ability of designers to…
- 9 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing

Paul McLellan

I gave a teaser introduction to the Digital Marketing Workshop that the ESD Alliance organized a couple of months ago, with OneSpin’s Dave Kelf (although he has since moved to Breker) and Nicolas Athanasopoulos. See my post Digital Marketing......
- 9 Jul 2018
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: A Guide to Bindkeys for Interactive and Assisted Routing Commands

Parula

I'm sure you are well-versed with the benefits of using bindkeys. So, to have a better user experience, find out more about the bindkeys that we provide for Virtuoso interactive and assisted routing commonly-used commands.
- 6 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Liberate Trio: Characterization Suite in the Cloud

Paul McLellan

Years ago, library characterization used to be fairly straightforward. The library had a few hundred cells, and it needed to be characterized at the SS, SF, FS, and FF corners. Those days are long gone. Libraries can have well over a thousand ce...
- 6 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Overcoming Bias in Computer Vision

Paul McLellan

At the recent Embedded Vision Summit, Will Byrne gave a presentation Overcoming Bias in Computer Vision, a Business Imperative. He started by pointing out that bias is marring AI's rollout. The three examples he cited are: Tay.AI chatbot becam...
- 5 Jul 2018
The India Circuit: Thirty Years As One Team

Madhavi Rao

Last week, Cadence was recognized as No 28 in the “Best Companies to Work For” study conducted by the Great Place to Work® Institute and the Economic Times. This is the third year in a row that Cadence has featured in the Top 50. We a...
- 4 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Want to Go on a Second Date?

Paul McLellan

Yesterday I told you about the Doomsday algorithm in my post Doomsday in 1900 Was a Wednesday. Let's look at some more interesting tricks and stories to do with dates. Days Each Month 30 days hath September,April, June and November,All the ...
- 4 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: Doomsday in 1900 Was a Wednesday

Paul McLellan

Cadence is off today, so time for an off-topic post. In my post Short Papers last summer, I said: John Conway is probably most famous to computer scientists for inventing the cellular-automaton-based game of Life, and to mathematicians for his work ...
- 2 Jul 2018
SoC and IP: Cadence Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP Stars in NB IoT Applications

PaulaJones

Did you make it to MWC Shanghai? I didn’t, but I read about what was hot – narrowband (NB) IoT. Three of Cadence’s customers had Tensilica Fusion F1 DSP demos on the show floor.

Xinyi Information Technology, a China-based company, showed off the first single-core modem that integrates a CMOS power amplifier with the modem. Their Marconi X1 modem features an NB-IoT protocol stack from Huachang Technology…
- 2 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 9th to 13th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/d04TXTJKx5o Coming from Cadence EBC (camera Lan Ly) Monday: ESD Alliance Workshop on Digital Marketing Tuesday: DAC: Straight Talk with Lip-Bu Tan Wednesday: Imec Technology Forum US Thursday: SEMICON West Report...
- 2 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: /* You Are Not Expected to Understand This */

Paul McLellan

The title of this post, you are not expected to understand this, is one of the most famous comments ever. It is in the v6 version of Unix, the mother operating system of Linux, Android,and iOS. Unix was developed by Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thomps...
- 2 Jul 2018
Breakfast Bytes: A History of PSS

Paul McLellan

In a remark attributed to Otto von Bismarck (or perhaps misattributed), it is said that: Laws, like sausages, cease to inspire respect in proportion as we know how they are made I think that we can add EDA standards to that list. This post gi...
- 29 Jun 2018
Verification: Is it Time to Verify Your Chips in the Cloud? Part 3 of 3

XTeam

Welcome back to our series on cloud verification solutions. This is the final part of a three-part blog—you can read part one here and part two here.

Now, for the moment you’ve all been waiting for: what can Cadence do for you in the realm of cloud verification. Are you ready?

In case you saw that list of qualities one should look for in a cloud partner in the last part of this blog, and wondered who ticks…
- 28 Jun 2018
Verification: UVM-ML- Managers’ Freedom of Choice

teamspecman

Freedom of choice is a term we hear a lot, especially in the last 10 years. It is defined in wikipedia as “an individual's opportunity and autonomy to perform an action selected from at least two available options…”.

Is having many choices always a good thing? Well, usually it is- who would not want to live in a world where s/he has options and can make choices? However, there are also downsides…
- 28 Jun 2018
Breakfast Bytes: DAC Wednesday: Denali, Patterson on Architecture, Rowen on Deep Learning, Analog Reliability Lunch, Bagpipes

Paul McLellan

Tuesday evening finished with the Denali Party. Since it's 8 years since Cadence acquired Denali, you may have forgotten who they were. They were experts on DDR memory interface IP and verification IP, and was the first IP that Cadence added to its p...
- 28 Jun 2018
Breakfast Bytes: What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 2nd to 6th 2018

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/QoFQImb0xk4 Coming from DAC (camera Sean) Monday: /* You are not expected to understand this */ Tuesday: Doomsday 1900 Was a Wednesday Wednesday: Wanna Second Date? Thursday: Avoiding Bias in Computer Vision...
- 27 Jun 2018

Cadence Guidelines

Community Guidelines

The Cadence Design Communities support Cadence users and technologists interacting to exchange ideas, news, technical information, and best practices to solve problems and get the most from Cadence technology. The community is open to everyone, and to provide the most value, we require participants to follow our Community Guidelines that facilitate a quality exchange of ideas and information. By accessing, contributing, using or downloading any materials from the site, you agree to be bound by the full Community Guidelines.