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If you’re doing circuit simulation anywhere in the world, you’re probably already familiar with the Cadence Spectre® simulator. The Spectre simulator is an accurate and high-performance SPICE circuit simulator that has established itself as the golden reference analog simulation over many years of use by designers. Now, with smaller geometries and denser chip designs, requiring more performance and capacity, the Spectre…

Some things are rare, good or bad, but they do happen from time to time. And, some happen so regularly, we often take them for granted if good or learn to live with them if bad. But should we? For example, you send out your design for fabrication and the CAM (computer-aided manufacturing) engineer runs a high-end design for manufacturability (DFM) analysis software. The CAM engineer sees DFM issues (almost always!). Now…

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda talks about the next-generation standard, USB4.  What are the benefits? Overlap with existing USB standards? How does it compare with USB 3.x? Watch the video.

https://youtu.be/sKHF8xB-NBk

Test chips are becoming more widespread and more complex at advanced process nodes as design teams utilize early silicon to diagnose problems prior to production. But this approach also is spurring questions about whether this approach is viable at 7nm and 5nm, due to the rising cost of prototyping advanced technology, such as mask tooling and wafer costs.

Semiconductor designers have long been making test chips to validate…

With more and more SoCs employing sophisticated interconnect IP to link multiple processor cores, caches, memories, and dozens of other IP functions, the designs are enabling a new generation of low-power servers and high-performance mobile devices. The complexity of the interconnects and their advanced configurability contributes to already formidable design and verification challenges which lead to the following questions…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jeff Critten describes the key benefits of the Cadence® Cloud-Hosted Design Solution in providing a total solution for companies seeking to move entire electronic design projects to the cloud.

https://youtu.be/CxvvOgo0ZTQ

Modern systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) continue to increase in complexity, adding more components and calculation power to accommodate new performance-hungry applications such as machine learning and autonomous driving.  With increased number of SoC components, such as CPUs, GPUs, accelerators and I/O devices, comes increased demand to correctly model interoperability of various components. Traditional simulation of complex systems…