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System efficiency is dictated by the performance of crucial components. For AI hardware systems, memory subsystem performance is the single most crucial component. In this blog post, we will provide an overview of the AI model landscape and the impact of HBM memory subsystems on effective system performance.

AI models have grown from a few billions of parameters from the early 90s to today’s Trillion Parameter Models…

With highly advanced technology, the real designs are getting complex, making the design optimization process complicated and comprising the design results. The sequential cells play a vital role in the chip's optimization and functioning.

Constant, merged, and unused flops, among other factors, impact the chip design's power, performance, and area (PPA) during the synthesis stage. Is there any way to handle the flops…

In this Knowledge Booster blog, let us discuss an important feature of the Virtuoso electromagnetic (EM) solver integration for performing EM simulations with the EMX Solver (in Electromagnetic Solver Assistant): Shape Simplification. By simplifying the shapes of EM models, the number of unknowns is reduced, simplifying the overall model. This leads to faster EM simulations of the IC structures.

 In the Electromagnetic…

Running inside the Virtuoso Platform, the Quantus Insight Solution offers unique capabilities to analyse and mitigate layout parasitics in custom layout design. Particularly at advanced nodes, interconnect RCs can strongly affect design performance and power.

Engineered for handling large DSPF files, the Quantus Insight Solution offers a comprehensive array of analyses featuring rapid root cause identification, a what…

This one-day training course is an in-depth training on EMX Solver, a large-scale, full-wave, planar 3D electromagnetic simulator for designing and verifying Integrated Circuits (ICs). The EMX simulator is a powerful engine that simulates electromagnetic (EM) effects in circuits in a unified manner.

The course is characterized as follows:

• This course will start by defining the EM Simulator, explaining basic EM Theory…

What do we mean by free signal integrity? Be sure to attend our joint Wild River Technology/Cadence DesignCon 2025 technical session, where we will unveil how understanding anisotropic materials and tolerances in the design of PCBs can increase performance at 112/224Gpbs and beyond. The talk will take place on Wednesday, January 29, 11:15am – 12:00pm in Ballroom B.

Uncertainty in as-fabricated (AF) dimensions and…

An increasing number of multi-threaded embedded applications want to leverage multicore designs. Symmetric Multiprocessing (SMP) RTOS provides automatic load balancing of multiple threads in a multicore environment. Also, numerous legacy multi-threaded embedded applications are deployed on a single-core RTOS that customers want to move to a multicore environment. For these reasons, application developers often need an…

The ISO 26262 standard provides functional safety guidance for semiconductors used in the automotive industry based on the foundational IEC 61508 standard. The Cadence Midas Safety Platform exchanges safety-related information across Cadence tools for a detailed safety analysis and generates a configuration database for your design. The semiconductor vendor does the safety analysis of the fully featured SoC and creates…