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Life at Cadence: Computational Software

Corporate

Electronics technology is evolving rapidly, becoming pervasive in our lives. There are more smart phones in use than there are people on earth, driver assistance is now common in automobiles, commercial airplanes have increasingly sophisticated infot...
- 1 Oct 2022
Breakfast Bytes: September Update: Cruise, CHIPS, FP8, and McLaren

Paul McLellan

Wow, September has flown by. It's already the last Friday of the month, the last day of the month in fact, and so time for a monthly update. Kaufman Award The 2022 Kaufman Award honors Giovanni (Nanni) De Micheli of École Polytechniqu...
- 30 Sep 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Spectre Tech Tips: Dynamic Power Density Circuit Check

Amaninder

To ensure an improved reliability and lifetime of devices, the circuit designers need to optimize the power consumption of the devices. This blog introduces a new dynamic check that you can use to identify the devices with large power density values.
- 30 Sep 2022
Life at Cadence: NTHU Makes a Human-Like Robot Arm with Stratus HLS and Innovus

Corporate

When it comes to jobs like lifting and manufacturing, robots can be sturdy and reliable machines, but what about for tasks like cooking and cleaning? Or even nursing and rehabilitation? Enter National Tsing Hua University’s (NTHU) dual-armed r...
- 29 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: When AI Rules the World, by Handel Jones

Paul McLellan

I first met Handel Jones in the early 1980s, I think. I was at VLSI Technology, and this Welsh guy showed up and presented some results from looking at our order book. We, along with LSI Logic, had pretty much invented ASIC and had a lot of...
- 29 Sep 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: On-Demand Webinar - Simulation of Hydraulic Turbines with Fidelity CFD

AnneMarie CFD

In this webinar, we introduce you to Fidelity Flow and its pressure-based solver (formerly known as Omnis Open-PBS), demonstrating its advantages for simulating hydro turbines. Fidelity Flow is an easy-to-use multiphysics solver that provides fast and accurate results, including for unsteady simulations. We use the GAMM Turbine as a test case.
- 28 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Bluetoooth LE Audio, Hearing Aids, and Mindtree

Paul McLellan

You might think that hearing aids are a bit of a sleepy backwater. Indeed, the only time I can remember coming across them in my job at Cadence was at a CadenceLIVE Europe presentation that I never blogged about, or if I did, it was such a passing re...
- 28 Sep 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Virtuoso Pin-To-Trunk Routing

Sandhya P S

This blog helps in demonstrating the use of Pin to trunk routing style which helps in enhancing the layout experience.
- 28 Sep 2022
Life at Cadence: Heterogeneous Integration (HI) vs System on Chip (SoC) – What’s the Difference?

Corporate

Heterogeneous integration (HI) is a new way to design chips that aims to counter the growing expense and complexity of system-on-chip (SoC) design by taking a more modular approach using advanced packaging technology.
- 27 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: RISC-V Tutorial

Paul McLellan

I keep reading accounts in the media and in the technical press (and YouTube) that misinterpret what RISC-V is. So today's post is going to explain that. Let's get the big thing out of the way; RISC-V is NOT a processor. I'll say that again to emphas...
- 27 Sep 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: On-Demand Webinar - Modeling Unsteadiness with the Non-Linear Harmonic Method

AnneMarie CFD

Learn how to model unsteadiness in Turbomachinery with high accuracy achieving 100 to 1000 times faster simulations compared to full-unsteady methods. In this webinar we cover the basics of the Non-Linear Harmonics (NLH) method, outline how the essential characteristics of flow periodicity are used as a tool, and demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of NLH through a variety of test cases.
- 27 Sep 2022
Life at Cadence: A Renewed Career through the Returnship Program

Michelle Hoffmann

Depending on the circumstances, there are times in our lives when we have to step away from our work. Rejoining the workforce is not always easy, especially when taking a long break in the high-tech field. The Cadence Returnship Program provides a me...
- 26 Sep 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Fidelity Pointwise Remedy Drawbacks Working with Analytic and Discrete Geometry Types

Veena Parthan

Most engineers are of the view that all mesh generators use an underlying geometry that is discrete in nature, but in fact, Fidelity Pointwise can import and mesh both analytic and discrete geometry. There are several pros and cons to using both analytic and discrete geometries.
- 26 Sep 2022
Verification: USB4 Interoperability with Thunderbolt™︎ 3 (TBT3) Systems

Anshul Shah

One of the key goals for USB4 is to retain compatibility with the existing ecosystem of USB3.2, USB 2.0 and Thunderbolt products, and the resulting connection scales to the best mutual capability of the devices being connected. USB4 is designed to work with older versions of USB and Thunderbolt. USB4 Fabric support high throughput interconnects of 10 Gbps (for Gen 2) and 20 Gbps (for Gen 3) and supports Thunderbolt 3-compatible…
- 26 Sep 2022
Spotlight Taiwan: Cadence積極參與2022 VLSI Design/CAD大會支持產學共進交流

candyyu

超大型積體電路設計暨計算機輔助設計技術研討會(VLSI Design/CAD)每年皆齊聚全台灣IC設計領域產、官、學、研各界菁英共襄盛舉，可謂台灣最具指標性的的學術與業界交流活動之一。今年第33屆已於8月2日至5日以線上混合模式舉辦，吸引了超過近千多名與會者!Cadence支持VLSI Design/CAD Symposium之舉行已超過10年，今年團隊很榮幸持續支持並參與這場積體電路與電腦輔助設計盛事，透過產學界的互動與交流，一起推動創新研究與產學發展! 在為期四天的大會...
- 26 Sep 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Last Week at Fidelity CFD

John Chawner

Good Monday to you all. There are only 96 days left in 2022, and hopefully, our activities at Fidelity CFD can help you make the most of them. From the Blogs I like to say that geometry models are to mesh generation what turbulence models are to CFD....
- 26 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: CadenceLIVE Boston: The Current State of EDA Education

Paul McLellan

On the academic track at CadenceLIVE Boston, Matthew Morrison of the University of Notre Dame presented The Current State of EDA Education: Challenges and Opportunities. In fact, he won the award for best presentation on the academic track. Matthew h...
- 26 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Dhiraj on Building the Dynamic Duo

Paul McLellan

When I rejoined Cadence in 2015, we had not yet announced Palladium Z1. But it was basically done, and we announced it a couple of months later. I wrote about the announcement in my post Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack. Next, we cre...
- 23 Sep 2022
Life at Cadence: AeroDelft Builds a Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft with CFD in the Cloud

Corporate

AeroDelft is a student-led team from the Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) with one mission: developing the world’s first liquid hydrogen-powered aircraft. Because liquid hydrogen is a cleaner alternative to conventional aviation...
- 22 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: HOT CHIPS: Beyond Compute – Enabling AI Through System Integration

Paul McLellan

The keynote for the second day of HOT CHIPS this year was a presentation by Ganesh Venkataramanan of Tesla Motors. He titled it Beyond Compute – Enabling AI Through System Integration. Tesla did not present at HOT CHIPS last year...
- 22 Sep 2022
Verification: Moving Beyond EDA: The Intelligent System Design Strategy

Vinod Khera

The rising customer expectations, intermingling fields and high performance needs can be satisfied with the system based design. An intelligent Systems Design strategy can offer a quicker route to an optimum design and helps to increase designers' productivity and analyzes efficiency by providing the ability to explore the entire design space. Cadence Intelligent System Strategy enables a system design revolution and…
- 22 Sep 2022
RF Engineering: μWaveRiders: Thermal Analysis for RF Power Applications

TeamAWR

Thermal analysis with the Cadence Celsius Thermal Solver integrated within the AWR Microwave Office circuit simulator gives designers an understanding of device operating temperatures related to power dissipation. That temperature information can be introduced into an electrothermal model to predict the impact on RF performance.
- 22 Sep 2022
RF /マイクロ波設計: μWaveRiders:RFパワーアプリケーションの熱解析

RF Design Japan

AWR Microwave Office回路シミュレータに統合されたCelsius Thermal Solverを活用した熱解析により、設計者は消費電力に関連するデバイス動作温度を理解できます。その温度情報を電熱モデルに導入して、RF 性能への影響を予測できます。
- 21 Sep 2022
Life at Cadence: Formula 1: How F1 Teams Use Telemetry, Control, and Analytics to Go Faster

Corporate

See how Cadence and Formula 1 (F1) teams solve their telemetry, control and analytics problems.
- 21 Sep 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Museums: Technology around the World

Paul McLellan

August is often a quiet time at Breakfast Bytes, with lots of people on vacation and Cadence not announcing any products. In 2017, I decided to do a series taking each Friday to write about a technology museum. Since then, I have visited more mu...
- 21 Sep 2022

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