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Breakfast Bytes: System in Package, Why Now?

Paul McLellan

At HOT CHIPS this summer, one of the things I noticed was just how many of the designs being presented were in some form of 3D packaging with multiple die. I wrote about many of them in my post HOT CHIPS: Chipletifying Designs. At last year's HOT...
- 6 Dec 2019
Digital Design: Library Characterization Tidbits: Creating Statistical Libraries for Standard Cells and IO Cells

Aravind R

Let’s read how you can use the Liberate Variety statistical characterization solution of the Cadence Liberate Characterization Portfolio for generating the statistical characterization models for standard cell libraries.
- 5 Dec 2019
定制IC芯片设计 : Virtuosity: 针对高级工艺节点器件级布线的工具 – Generate Trunks

Parula

Trunk Generation 创新功能，不仅实现干线自动化，提高生产效率，还提供完整的Pin to Trunk 流程的自定义选项.
- 5 Dec 2019
Breakfast Bytes: Photonics Summit: Lumerical-Cadence Flow

Paul McLellan

James Pond, the CTO of Lumerical, wrapped up the Photonics Summit recently. He started by giving an overview of the Lumerical-Cadence flow but the real focus of his short presentation was creating robust designs using photonics inverse design, or PID...
- 5 Dec 2019
定制IC芯片设计 : Virtuosity: 针对高阶工艺节点的器件级布线工具 — Finish Trunk

Parula

本博客是该系列博客的第一篇，将介绍Finish Trunk 命令，如何实现器件级的布线需求，它并不算是新功能，但可被认为是又一突破性功能.
- 4 Dec 2019
Breakfast Bytes: "If You Can Get Your Ship into Orbit, You're Halfway to Anywhere"

Paul McLellan

I planned on using the 50th anniversary of Apollo 12 as a hook for this blog, but as it happened I was sick that week, so never wrote it, and my post missed its "launch window". Apollo 12 was from November 14 to 24,1969. I wrote ...
- 4 Dec 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : Search Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019

Rachna2018

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 products come with the latest version of CDNSHelp. In this post, I will quickly share the changes made in this release, that will make things much simpler and before you realize it, your content searches will give you better results, and you get more done. Or, know more about what ...
- 3 Dec 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: The Third Dimension of 17.4 IC Packaging

Tyler

If you’ve run the 17.4 release, you have probably seen two 3D rendering tools – 3D Viewer and 3D Canvas – present in the View menu. Why are there two? That’s a good question, and the answer lies in the type of design you ...
- 3 Dec 2019
Breakfast Bytes: Cadence to Acquire AWR

Paul McLellan

Yesterday Cadence announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AWR from National Instruments (NI). Cadence will pay approximately $160M and about 110 AWR employees will join us. The acquisition is expected to close in Q1 2020 after regulatory...
- 3 Dec 2019
Breakfast Bytes: The Photonics Summit 2019: Hybrid Lasers

Paul McLellan

Recently, Cadence held the fourth Photonics Summit and Workshop over two days. I attended the summit. The workshop was hands-on designing an RF photonics front-haul implementation. In fact, that was the focus of the whole summit, which was title...
- 2 Dec 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : Experience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version

AllegroReleaseTeam

OrCAD Trial 2019 is out. Download and use the full power of the latest release of OrCAD Capture CIS, PSpice, PCB Editor, OrCAD Sigrity ERC, and more, for up to 30 days. Designed to accelerate your productivity, this is a ...
- 28 Nov 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Materially Good Changes in 17.4

Tyler

You should be getting used to the new 17.4 release at this point. I am willing to bet there are still exciting new improvements that you haven’t found yet. Today, allow me to show off the new materials editor. It is likely you don’t...
- 26 Nov 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Installing on Windows is as Easy as Updating Apps on your Smart Phone

Sanjiv Bhatia

Did you know that you can download and install available Cadence Allegro and OrCAD product releases and updates on Windows in an easy way using Cadence Download Manager? Yes, no more visiting the downloads.cadence.com site to check for...
- 26 Nov 2019
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Sharing Expressions between Pre- and Post-Layout Simulations

Arja H

This has been an age old problem, you extract your design and get a DSPF file, then you want to run simulation in Virtuoso ADE Assembler, or Virtuoso ADE Explorer, using that DSPF file, but you find that none of your expressions evaluate. That's because the design is flat in the DSPF file, plus the extractor probably added prefixes to devices, changed the finger delimiters and changed the case of nets etc. You probably…
- 26 Nov 2019
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 版本升级：Sigrity 2019、Allegro/OrCAD 17.4现已发布

SDA China

space Sigrity 2019主要性能升级新系统级分析工具：Celsius Thermal Solver 系统级电热协同仿真 Sigrity 2019版本引入Cadence® Celsius Thermal Solver工具，可以为从集成电路（IC）到实体外壳的整个电子系统体系提供完整的电热协同仿真。 Celsius Thermal Solver工具使用创新的多物理场技术来检测和解决热合规问题。通过将固体结构的有限元分析（FEA）与流体的计算流体力学（CFD）相结合，仅使用...
- 22 Nov 2019
Breakfast Bytes: Implementing Arm Hercules with Digital Full Flow

Paul McLellan

At Arm TechCon, there was a joint presentation by Arm, Cadence, and Samsung Foundry about implementing Arm's next-generation high-performance CPU in Samsung's 5nm process. The diagram below, from Arm's segment of the presentation, shows how the whole...
- 22 Nov 2019
Digital Design: Library Characterization Tidbits: Basics of Standard Cell Characterization and More

AbhaRawat

Characterization of standard cell libraries using the Liberate Characterization solution is broadly divided into five stages. Read this blog to know about the related basics and the step-by-step procedure.
- 20 Nov 2019
Breakfast Bytes: 2nd WOSET Workshop on Open-Source EDA

Paul McLellan

During ICCAD earlier in the month, there was the 2nd WOSET, which stands for Workshop on Open-Source EDA Technology. I wasn't there but Anton Klotz, who runs the Cadence Academic Network in Europe, was there and this is based on his report. I wro...
- 20 Nov 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: A Cross-Section of Changes

Tyler

While 17.4 has only been amongst you for a month, now, I’ve had a few questions regarding manipulating your layer stack-up in the new release. We covered scripting changes previously, but a quick chat about the general use model is warranted. T...
- 19 Nov 2019
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Power of Information – Quickly Getting Started with Allegro and OrCAD Release 17.4-2019

Jasmine

The Allegro and OrCAD 7.4 release is now available for download and installation. Many of you must have already started using it and many more of you must be planning to install it in the coming days or weeks. Do you have all it needs to use the programs?
- 19 Nov 2019
Breakfast Bytes: Verifying Processor Security, Part 2

Paul McLellan

This is the second post about Eli Singerman's keynote at the recent Jasper User Group. The first was Formally Verifying Processor Security. In the last couple of years, high-performance processors (not just Intel's) have been shown to be...
- 19 Nov 2019
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Package PDK in Virtuoso! How Is It Even Possible? (Part 2)

VRF Knight

Alright… I’m back again to amuse you with another part on how to set up Package PDK in Virtuoso. I hope you enjoyed what I introduced to you in the previous part and I hope you are applying what you have learned in your design flow on daily bases.
- 18 Nov 2019
Breakfast Bytes: Formally Verifying Processor Security

Paul McLellan

Intel has had a couple of major events that totally changed their attitude to verification. The first was in 1994 when they had the Pentium floating-point divide bug and management said “don’t ever let this happen again”. In 1996, t...
- 18 Nov 2019
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: RF设计直播课程：如何提高RF前端模块封装设计的迭代效率

SDA China

大家好，我是Principal Customer Engagement Engineer江亮，从事射频前端模块设计七年，先后受聘于Qorvo，RDA等多家射频半导体研发企业。熟悉射频前端模块设计的全流程，拥有丰富的射频模块设计经验，曾主导、参与设计了多款产品，包括功率放大器，天线开关，低噪声放大器，耦合器等前端模块电路，并投产取得商业成功。众所周知，随着5G的商业化演进，射频前端模块的设计越来越复杂，越来越多的不同工艺的裸片将集成到一个封装模块中，集成化小型化的需求导致设计的流程越来越复杂，并...
- 15 Nov 2019
Academic Network: CADathlon at ICCAD 2019

Anton Klotz

Last week, I visited the Cadathlon@ICCAD event at the 2019 International Conference on Computer Aided Design . It was my first CADathlon and I was quite intrigued, since the organizers webpage announced it boldly as the “Olympic Games...
- 15 Nov 2019

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