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Breakfast Bytes: February 2022 Update

Paul McLellan

I can't believe that it is already the last Friday in February and so time for my monthly update post where I collect mini-posts that don't justify a whole post of their own. Global Semiconductor Sales, Units Shipped Reach All-Time Highs in 2...
- 25 Feb 2022
RF /マイクロ波設計: μWaveRiders:Cadence AWR Design Environment プロジェクト管理のヒントとコツ

RF Design Japan

　Team RF "μWaveRiders" ブログシリーズはCadence AWR RF製品のためのショーケースです。月ごとの話題はCadence AWR Design Environmentのリリースのハイライト, 機能ビデオ, Cadenceの教育関係ネットワークのニュース,ソフトウェアのヒント, トリック, カスタマイズ, 機能のスポットライトの中で変わります。 AWRソフトウェアのヒントとコツ: AWR Design Environmen...
- 24 Feb 2022
RF Engineering: μWaveRiders: Cadence AWR Design Environment Project Management Tips and Tricks

TeamAWR

The fifth in the series of AWR Design Environment Tips and Tricks, this blog highlights project management options in the AWR Design Environment workspace to speed design creation and optimize use of AWR software.
- 24 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Benedict Evans on Tech 2022

Paul McLellan

Every year at the start of the year, Benedict Evans produces a big presentation on trends in technology, internet, mobile, and so on. He used to live in the US and did this for Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z), but he has since returned to Britain (he's Eng...
- 24 Feb 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 Release Now Available

SigrityReleaseTeam

The Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 production release is now available for download at Cadence Downloads.
- 24 Feb 2022
Verification: Boost your CXL Verification From IP to System-Level

Vinod Khera

Knowingly or unknowingly, we are consuming huge volumes of data from getting up early with Google/Siri, doing day-to-day work, using maps while driving till the time we call it a day and retiring in bed while watching Netflix. We expect all these to...
- 24 Feb 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: Don't Let Vortex Ropes Tie Up Your Hydraulic Turbine

Veena Parthan

Better manage your computational fluid dynamics challenges by learning how to simulate vortex ropes in hydraulic turbine with CFD simulations and flow simulations.
- 23 Feb 2022
Academic Network: Cadence Awards Digital Badges to 54 Students During the 58th Annual Design Automation Conference

Mallory Clemons

As part of the DAC Young Fellows Program at the annual Design Automation Conference, Cadence held a virtual training on High-Level Synthesis for students who earned digital badges upon completion. The Young Fellows Program gave students a variety of ...
- 23 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Moss Landing

Paul McLellan

Everybody knows that the problem with sustainable energy is that it is intermittent. For wind, the wind doesn't always blow. Solar can suffer from clouds, but most obviously the sun doesn't shine at night. Other forms of sustainable energy, such as g...
- 23 Feb 2022
Life at Cadence: De-Risking and Accelerating OS Boot for Arm SystemReady SoCs: Morello Case Study

Vinod Khera

Cadence collaborated with Arm to enable pre-silicon SoC SystemReady compliance testing using Perspec and Palladium. With this system you can boot a generic off-the-shelf operating system (OS) on any SoC is a significant milestone and requires the SoC to meet a set of minimum hardware and firmware standards. Otherwise, long debug time, software workarounds/customization would lead to delays in the delivery of products…
- 22 Feb 2022
Verification: Employee Spotlight – Highlighting Our Colleagues in SVG!

Melisa

Cadence’s SVG team would like to feature two team members who are making a difference in technology, Tracy Fox. Sr. Product Engineer for DisplayPort, and Kevin Beauford, Sr. Principal Product Validation Engineer. Read below to hear what Black H...
- 22 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: DVCon 2022 Preview

Paul McLellan

DVCon 2022 is coming up soon from February 28th to March 3rd. It is entirely virtual. In my preview post last year I said: The current plan for next year is to be face-to-face at the DoubleTree Hotel in the first week of March. But Omicron ha...
- 22 Feb 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: The World’s Energy Diet Shifts into Electrification

Veena Parthan

In the last two years, businesses worldwide faced several challenges and have had to make many adjustments to survive and grow, there were a few who took this situation to their advantage and exceeded their targets which include online movie st...
- 22 Feb 2022
Verification: SoCs Verification Management, Traceability and Managing Risks in Semiconductor World

Vinod Khera

With the increased complexity in SoC design and bigger teams, manually updating the specifications across all tools is very tedious. The biggest challenge is the lack of collaboration between the systems and teams. Traceability is another important a...
- 21 Feb 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : (P)SpiceItUp: Sweeping Multiple Parameters to Enhance Performance

mrigashira

Often you want to see the effect of changing multiple parameters on the performance of your design. For example, you might want to know how the gain or bandwidth of a design is affected when you vary multiple components across a range of values...
- 21 Feb 2022
The India Circuit: Join Cadence at VLSID 2022 Next Week!

Vinod Khera

VLSID 2022, the 35th International Conference of VLSI Design and the 21st International Conference on Embedded Systems, is the world's largest platform for semiconductors, VLSI and Embedded Systems, and is coming up in a couple of weeks. The reputed ...
- 21 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Sunday Brunch Video for 20th February 2022

Paul McLellan

https://youtu.be/jGAKLppD9YE Made in Lumen5 by me Monday: Generic and Open PDKs Tuesday: China, US, Europe: Everybody's Got a CHIPS Act Wednesday: Automotive: CFD, FuSa, Aging, Vision, Light Thursday: Offtopic: Sudoku and Wordle Friday:...
- 20 Feb 2022
Academic Network: Opening a Certified EDA lab at Sofia University in Bulgaria

Anton Klotz

A few months ago, I was contacted by Dobromir Gaydazhiev, director of Design Support team at GlobalFoundries who suggested to open an EDA lab at University of Sofia, to educate new generation of EDA engineers for the GF office in Bulgaria. The Cadenc...
- 18 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Offtopic: Sudoku and Wordle

Paul McLellan

Tomorrow is a Cadence "global recharge day" and Monday is Presidents' Day in the U.S. So, as always, on the day before a break, I go off-topic. One thing that has happened during the pandemic is that people have turned to online games as a way of ent...
- 17 Feb 2022
Computational Fluid Dynamics: What Battery Energy Density is Required for Long-Distance Electric Aircraft?

Veena Parthan

Birds inspired us to develop aircrafts capable of flight. Before the Wright brothers mastered sustained and controlled heavier-than-air powered flight in 1903, other pioneers in aviation such as Richard Pearse, William Frost, and Gustave Whitehe...
- 16 Feb 2022
Digital Design: Adopting a Faster, More Efficient Path to Multi-Chiplet Design

Vinod Khera

Gone are the days when process shrinking was considered as the primary driver of product innovation and improved system performance. The path most are taking leads to the world of “More than Moore.” Vertical Stacking of heterogeneous chips and chiplets is the name of the game. It will have a significant impact on applications that require ultra-high-performance and low power, such as multi-core CPUs, GPUs…
- 16 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Automotive: CFD, FuSa, Aging, Vision, Light

Paul McLellan

That's a lot of acronyms and buzzwords! Just in case you don't know them all, they stand for: CFD: Computational Fluid Dynamics FuSa: Functional Safety Aging: Not just getting old, but in the context of automotive it means analyzing transist...
- 16 Feb 2022
System, PCB, & Package Design : BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Configuring OrCAD and Allegro Installations on Windows

Himanshu Saxena

Often, you install the Cadence products with default settings and that suffices to work with the tools. However, you might encounter instances when the default settings may not be enough to serve your requirements. For example, when multiple use...
- 15 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: China, US, Europe: Everybody's Got a CHIPS Act

Paul McLellan

I ran across a very interesting report from the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) China’s Share of Global Chip Sales Now Surpasses Taiwan’s, Closing in on Europe’s and Japan’s. The global market share by major regions l...
- 15 Feb 2022
Breakfast Bytes: Generic and Open PDKs

Paul McLellan

One challenge that educators and researchers face is that they typically have no access to real PDKs from the foundries, but PDKs are required to do design, even if there is no plan to actually manufacture the design. PDK stands for process design ki...
- 14 Feb 2022

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