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Computational Fluid Dynamics: Webinar: Model Unsteady Flow in Turbomachines Much Faster using NLH

John Chawner

Why Unsteadiness Is Important in Turbomachinery and How to Model It Owing to its high complexity, unsteady flow in turbomachinery often generates high levels of noise, low efficiency, vibrations, and increased fuel consumption. Those are the most typ...
- 30 Aug 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Driving Super-efficient Chip Design with Voltus-XFi Custom Power Integrity Solution

Joy Han

This blog introduces the new Voltus-XFi Custom Power Integrity Solution, a transistor-level EM-IR tool that enables designers to complete comprehensive analysis and debugging easily and quickly.
- 30 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: HOT CHIPS: CXL Tutorial

Paul McLellan

Recently, it was HOT CHIPS 2022. The event was virtual again since when they had to make a final decision, no academic institution would let them use a stage (recently, HOT CHIPS has been at either De Anza College or Stanford University). But the for...
- 30 Aug 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: On-Demand Webinar - Why Meshing Complex Marine Geometries Has Never Been So Easy

AnneMarie CFD

Witness the next generation of meshing for marine applications: Mesh any geometry at the highest level of accuracy and speed, guaranteed. In this 30-minute webinar we present various new meshing features that will accelerate your workflow at all levels, from CAD preparation to mesh analysis, creating a solid basis for high-accuracy CFD simulation.
- 29 Aug 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Synergize with CLE - Work Concurrently Across Geographies

Sucharita

Concurrent Layout Editing enables more than one designer to work in a hierarchy at the same time. Check out this blog to know more.
- 29 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: CadenceLIVE: Dassault and Cadence

Paul McLellan

In February, Cadence announced an agreement with the French company Dassault Systèmes. I wrote about it in my monthly update post February 2022 Update. As I said in that post: The two companies have combined Dassault Systèmes’ 3D...
- 29 Aug 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Structured Grids are Here for an Eternity!

Veena Parthan

Structured grids offer two things that unstructured meshes may lack, i.e., quality and control; and since the choice of grid plays a significant role in the accuracy of the solution, it is evident that the structured grids are here to stay!
- 29 Aug 2022
PCB解析／ICパッケージ解析: JAE 日本航空電子工業がClarity 3Dソルバー向けIPプロテクトモデルの提供を開始！

SPB Japan

ClarityTM 3D Solver の最新リリース(Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 HF2)では、暗号化された部品モデルのサポートが利用可能になりました。この機能により、コネクタなどの3D部品を提供するベンダーは、3D形状の物理的なIPを明らかにすることなく、機械系CADモデルをPCBと合体し、単一の構造として解析できるようになりました。これは、シグナルインテグリティエンジニアにとって、Sパラメータモデルをカスケードする必要がなくなり、PCBとコネクタ...
- 29 Aug 2022
RF /マイクロ波設計: μWaveRiders:成功するAWR Design Environmentでの設計 - UI と解析

RF Design Japan

新しい設計を開始するときは、設計サイクルの後半で発生する可能性がある問題を防ぐために、設計に関する推奨事項を検討する時間を取ることが重要です。この新しい設計を開始するためのガイドラインを 2 部構成でまとめたものは、Cadence AWR Design Environment プラットフォームサポートの設計に関する長年の経験の成果です。ユーザーインターフェイス、解析、レイアウト、およびライブラリ構成に関する設計前の決定は、効果的で効率的なAWR 設計の基礎を築きます。このブログでは、設計者が設計を開始する前に注意すべきユーザーインターフェイス (UI) と解析に関する考慮事項について説明します。
- 28 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 28th August 2022

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/3XCQusdK4to Made in "Hawaii" (camera me) Monday: CadenceLIVE: Using Helium at NVIDIA Tuesday: What Does Cadence Do? Wednesday: CadenceLIVE: Characterizing Libraries with Liberate and CloudBurst Thursday: How to Win the...
- 28 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: August Update: DAC Keynote, CHIPS, CXL, V2V, EE Times

Paul McLellan

It's that time again, the last Friday of the month. Here are lots of items that are updates to things I've already written about or are too small to justify a post all on their own. Anirudh's Keynote at DAC Anirudh Devgan, Cadence's C...
- 26 Aug 2022
Digital Design: RTL-to-GDSII Flow: I Am Not a Tool but Can Help You Implement Your Entire Design!

P Saisrinivas

Passion motivates and helps you pursue it further, but gaining expertise requires time and effort. For example, photography is a popular hobby because anyone can take a picture. But to gain expertise requires time and effort to experiment with various techniques to improve your skills.

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- 25 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: How to Win the America's Cup with CFD

Paul McLellan

People have been designing boats for literally thousands of years. Triremes, fishing boats, tea clippers, galleons, battleships, aircraft carriers, cruise ships, oil tankers, dinghies, and many more. Historically, a lot of this design was done ...
- 25 Aug 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Women in CFD with Virginie Barbieux

Veena Parthan

Recently, I had an opportunity to interview another woman working in CFD, Virginie Barbieux, Senior CFD Product Engineering Manager at Cadence, to learn a little about her, her career journey to date, and a few pieces of advice that would benefit other women engineers or practitioners in CFD.
- 24 Aug 2022
RF Engineering: μWaveRiders: Setting Up a Successful AWR Design Environment Design - UI and Simulation

TeamAWR

When starting a new design, it's important to take the time to consider design recommendations that prevent problems that can arise later in the design cycle. This two-part compilation of guidelines for starting a new design is the result of years of Cadence AWR Design Environment platform Support experience with designs. Pre-design decisions for user interface, simulation, layout, and library configuration lay the groundwork…
- 24 Aug 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Managing Silkscreen Data Using Allegro 3D Canvas

anandd

The silkscreen layer plays a crucial role in the assembly, repair, and testing of a PCB. You can add a variety of information to this layer, such as the location of the components, polarity, component orientation, on-off switches, LEDs, and testpoint...
- 24 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: CadenceLIVE: Characterizing Libraries with Liberate and CloudBurst

Paul McLellan

At the recent CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley, Scott Chang, the CEO of M31 Technologies, and Cadence's Philippe Hurat presented 5X Faster Library Characterization in the Cloud. When you think of tasks in the design process that are ideally suited to ...
- 24 Aug 2022
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR27 and IC6.1.8 ISR27 Now Available

Virtuoso Release Team

The ICADVM20.1 ISR27 and IC6.1.8 ISR27 production releases are now available for download.
- 24 Aug 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 HF2 Release Now Available

SigrityReleaseTeam

The Sigrity and Systems Analysis (SIGRITY/SYSANLS) 2022.1 HF2 release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads. For the list of CCRs fixed in the 2022.1 HF2 release, see the README.txt file in the installation hierarchy.
- 23 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: What Does Cadence Do?

Paul McLellan

I was recently on a Zoom call about search engine optimization where we discussed all the new ways we are getting our name onto the search results of our target audience. The SEO expert on the call Googled "what does cadence do?" and pointe...
- 23 Aug 2022
Digital Design: What's Behind the 5% Die-Area Shrink and 12% Power Saving by MediaTek?

Vinod Khera

Leveraging Cadence Cerberus AI-Enabled Chip Optimization Solution MediaTek Achieves Transformative PPA and Improved Productivity

The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a global renaissance. With the advent of technologies like 5G, autonomous driving, hyperscale compute, and the Internet of things, there has been an explosion in demand for electronics. Consumers want chips that must have more functionality, more…
- 22 Aug 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Current Open Positions on the Fidelity CFD Team

John Chawner

Questions I get asked a lot include "Are you nuts?" and "What exactly do you do all day anyway besides surf the interwebs?" A third is "Are you hiring for the Fidelity CFD team at Cadence?" Search the Careers Webpa...
- 22 Aug 2022
Cloud: Four Reasons “Cloud-First” Engineering Makes Companies More Competitive

Corporate

We’re finally at the point where companies can adopt a “cloud-first” approach for design and analysis solutions that can be accessed anywhere from any device. What’s required for a “cloud-first” approach?
- 22 Aug 2022
Breakfast Bytes: CadenceLIVE: Using Helium at NVIDIA

Paul McLellan

We announced Helium in September last year, and I wrote about the product in my post Announcing Helium, Hybrid and Virtual Platforms with Multiple Gears. Helium's full name is Helium Virtual and Hybrid Studio. Helium allows for debugging sof...
- 22 Aug 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: High-Order Meshing on 5 Different Geometries Using Fidelity Pointwise

Veena Parthan

For the given 5 geometry configurations, with Fidelity Pointwise high-order meshing, linear meshes are curved and require fewer elements to accurately represent curved geometry and capture complex flow features.
- 21 Aug 2022

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