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Breakfast Bytes: RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Prison

Paul McLellan

There is always an interesting sounding presentation at RSA that looks like it might be a good blog post topic just based on the title. This year it was I Had My Mom Break Into A Prison Then We Had Pie by John Strand of Black Hills Information ...
- 4 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch

Paul McLellan

Before I rejoined Cadence, I did a fair bit of writing for SemiWiki. One of the sponsoring companies was Methodics. I lived in San Francisco at 14th street, and Methodics had their office on 9th street, so for once in my life, I could walk from my h...
- 3 Mar 2020
Breakfast Bytes: FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G

Paul McLellan

Last week the FCC approved $9.7B to quickly clear the C-band for 5G. This could be a big deal. It is just the first step, approving the payout. Before I explain why I think this is a big deal, let me explain the story so far. Well, I already have, i...
- 2 Mar 2020
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 极致PCB设计全流程 I 基础一：设计图纸导入

SDA China

PCB设计启动，原理图、结构图的设计信息导入PCB设计工具时，您是否会有以下疑惑：执行命令时，每个选项有什么意义？ DXF、IDX…这些文件都是什么？如何选择才能保证快速高质量完成PCB设计？ “极致PCB设计全流程”第一期基础篇“设计图纸导入”为您答疑解惑。关注微信公众号“Cadence楷登PCB及封装资源中心”，在微信后台回复关键词“PCB全流程”即可get完整课程计划与资...
- 28 Feb 2020
Life at Cadence: Black History Is American History

Johnas Street

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin To honor Black History Month, I wanted to learn more from some of our Black employees about what this month means to ...
- 28 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Designing Radios: Integrand

Paul McLellan

Yesterday, in my post Designing Radios and Radar: AWR, I discussed the acquisition of AWR, which recently closed. But Cadence did a second acquisition in the RF space already. We recently announced that we have acquired Integrand Softw...
- 28 Feb 2020
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Masten Space Systems: Reactive Flow and Heat Transfer Optimization for Reusable Spacecraft

AnneMarie CFD

Authors: Allan Grosvenor, Aerodynamics Lead, Masten Space Systems, USA - Jean-Charles Bonaccorsi, Technical Director, NUMECA USA - Jan Anker, Head of Combustion Modeling Group, NUMECA International Masten Space Systems is a private company founded ...
- 27 Feb 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuosity: Auto Device Array - A One-Stop-Shop for Modgens

Aneesh Shastry

Hello everybody! I'm back with a new blog on Modgens. In this blog, I'm going to talk about an important new feature—the Auto Device Array form. Read the blog to know more about how this new feature has simplified the tasks of creating and customizing Modgens.
- 27 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Designing Radios and Radar: AWR

Paul McLellan

As you probably know already, Cadence recently acquired AWR from National Instruments. I sat down with Sherry Hess to learn more about AWR's history and product line, and generally get a bit more color on AWR. The big picture is that AWR's to...
- 27 Feb 2020
Digital Design: Are You Struggling to Meet the Timing for Your Design? Stop Worrying!

MJ Cad

We know your designs are complex and so is timing analysis. We cannot change the design but we have made the timing analysis process easier for you. Timing closure is one of the most critical components of a digital design. To be able to meet timing ...
- 26 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: UMC Test Chip for Cadence Interface IP Is Working

Paul McLellan

Who was Taiwan's first semiconductor company? Who was Taiwan's first foundry? If you said UMC, you are right, but you probably didn't. UMC stands for United Microelectronics Corporation (although people rarely spell it out, they just use t...
- 26 Feb 2020
Life at Cadence: Tis’ the Season to Give

TramN

Cadence recently completed our fourth annual Season of Giving company-wide volunteer campaign. As one of the managers of our Cadence Cares community programs, I had the opportunity to work with a network of over 40 Cadence volunteer leads across 32 d...
- 25 Feb 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: Variable Text Labels and Template Reuse

Tyler

For many, the information labels always go in a consistent location in the design so that they appear at the same location on a printout of the design. If you want these text elements in the same place in all your designs, but each design has its own set of values ...
- 25 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Colossus: the First Programmable Digital Electronic Computer

Paul McLellan

Today is the first day of the RSA security conference in San Francisco. I will be attending so you can look for some security-related posts in the coming few weeks. But all the cryptography that will be on view in San Francisco is a great excuse to t...
- 25 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: DesignCon: The Future of Fiber Optic Communications

Paul McLellan

At the recent DesignCon, Chris Cole gave the keynote The Future of Fiber Optic Communications: Data Center and Mobile. He was working at Finisar who got acquired, and he had just begun work at photonics startup Luminous Computing. Judging by the...
- 24 Feb 2020
定制IC芯片设计 : Virtuosity: Property Editor可用性增强功能

KomalJohar

“可用性概念“在我们的生活中随处可见，基于这个概念而产生的产品，便于使用及访问，并且更吸引眼球。因此，为了不断提升产品的可用性，在Virtuoso® Layout Suite中，我们增强了属性编辑器(Property Editor)的功能，使其更紧凑且更满足用户需求。毫无疑问，Property Editor是Virtuoso 平台最常用的功能，几乎所有的Virtuoso 用户都使用它来编辑设计元素。如果您还未注意到Property Editor 的可用性增...
- 23 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 23rd February 2020

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/CPNy6CjnvEs Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: President's Day Tuesday: DVCon 2020 Preview Wednesday: What If It's Not 5G, But Satellites? Thursday: Getting on to the Internet in 1993 Friday: DesignCon: Design for Security...
- 23 Feb 2020
PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析: 年度网课：极致PCB设计全流程网课计划

SDA China

“工欲善其事，必先利其器”，我们要高质高效完成PCB设计，除了有效的规划及设计策略外，还必须深入理解工具的使用方法和设计技巧。只有夯实这些基础，我们才能真正避免“重复劳动”，提升设计质量和效率。娴熟的PCB设计者，可以将更多时间分配于传输线理论、SI/PI、电磁场等理论知识的研究，做更深层次的PCB设计。为了兼顾不同观众的需求，今年我们采用“理论知识 + 实战演示”，的方式，循序渐进地与大家在线分享PCB设计各个阶段的基...
- 21 Feb 2020
Digital Design: Library Characterization Tidbits: Over the Clouds and Beyond with Arm-Based Graviton and Cadence Liberate Trio

Seena Shankar

Cadence Liberate Trio Characterization Suite, ARM-based Graviton Processors, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud have joined forces to cater to the High-Performance Computing, Machine Learning/Artificial Intelligence, and Big Data Analytics sectors.
- 21 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: DesignCon: Design for Security

Paul McLellan

At DesignCon, one of the keynotes was by Warren Savage titled Design for Security: The Next Frontier of Smart Silicon. I have known Warren for years—he has been in IP for a long time, most recently as CEO of IPextreme, which he founded in 2004 ...
- 21 Feb 2020
Analog/Custom Design: Virtuoso Video Diary: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Part 1

Dishika Majumdar

This blog will take you on a short tour to the Cadence Education Services site, which has several online training courses and bytes based on specific features of Virtuoso products.
- 20 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: Getting on to the Internet in 1993

Paul McLellan

I recently listened to an a16z podcast about crypto. It was an interview by Katie Haun with Marc Andreessen, the co-founder of Andreessen-Horowitz aka a16z. For me, the most fascinating part was not the crypto, but two aspects of the ...
- 20 Feb 2020
Breakfast Bytes: What If It's Not 5G, But Satellites?

Paul McLellan

What if the answer to next-generation communication is not 5G but space? Elon Musk apparently noticed that the margins of the companies for which Space X was launching satellites were better than Space X's own margins. So why not use those rocke...
- 19 Feb 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : IC Packagers: An Introduction to Via Arrays

Tyler

Vias are present in every design (except maybe some lead frames and the very rare single-layer substrate). Where they are placed, and how many there are, will depend on a slew of factors, though, as we know. There are different situations and reasons...
- 18 Feb 2020
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Training Insights - Improving SI/PI Simulation of DDR Interfaces at the PCB/IC Package Level

mrigashira

In the days of yore when life was simple, there was a world full of DRAMs (Dynamic Random Access Memory). We have come a long way from there. First came Synchronous DRAMs (SDRAMS). Isn't it neater anyway, SDRAM? More systematic and organized, in tune...
- 18 Feb 2020

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