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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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Virtuosity: Are Your Layout Design Mansions Correct-by-Construction?

Do you want to create designs that are correct by construction? Read along this blog…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , Advanced Node , Layout Suite , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , usability , Custom IC Design , ux

Breakfast Bytes

Fred Brooks: "It Is a Humbling Experience to Make a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake…

Cadence's Intelligent System Design strategy is about designing the systems of today…

• 4 min read
fred brooks , frederick brooks , mythical man month , os/360

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RSA 2020: The Cryptographers' Panel

One of the big draws on the first day of the RSA Conference is always "The Cryptographers…

• 8 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa , cryptographers' panel

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR10 and ICADVM18.1 ISR10 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR10 and ICADVM18.1 ISR10 production releases are now available for…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Virtuoso RF , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , IC Release Blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Academic Network

How to Get Remote Access to Cadence Academic Tools and Licenses

With the ever-evolving workplace and classroom, we know that the way we work and…

• 4 min read
Europractice , Cadence Academic Network , remote access , EDA , CMC Microsystems , university program

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Identify Your Components

We’ve all seen bar codes and the more modern QR codes. They’re everywhere you go…

• 2 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

2020 Is the Year of DDR5

I talked recently to Marc Greenberg, one of Cadence's experts on the memory market…

• 3 min read
ddr5 , Memory , DDR4

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Validating Libraries Effectively

In this blog, I will brief you about two very useful Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) for…

• 3 min read
Liberate LV , timing validation , Digital Implementation , interpolation error , library validation , RAKs

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part V

Here is another blog in the multi-part series that aims at providing in-depth details…

• 9 min read
EM Analysis , ICADVM18.1 , VRF , Virtuoso Layout EXL , ports , Virtuoso RF , Electromagnetic analysis , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Turing Award: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan

Last week, the ACM announced this year's Turing Award would go to Pat Hanrahan and…

• 5 min read
vlsi technology , turing award , graphics

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd March 2020

https://youtu.be/b7ixzahr85s Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Another…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

Netflix and C...adence

Earlier in the week, I wrote about a couple of videos from Intel, about semiconductor…

• 1 min read
sunday brunch , video , intelligent system design

Breakfast Bytes

RSA 2020: From Sulu to Penn & Teller

I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently. I guess that is going to…

• 6 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Design Element Label Management

A few weeks ago, we talked about template text labels for design-specific information…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Creating Footprints Using Templates in Library Creator

With ECAD-MCAD Library Creator, you can easily create footprints for your parts using…

• 3 min read
Library Creator , 17.4-2019 , ECAD-MCAD Library Creator , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

How Intel Manufactures Chips

I happened to be looking for something on YouTube recently when I came across this…

• 3 min read
Intel , fab

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity：回顾定制IC芯片设计博客的黄金时代

如果您错过了2019 发布的Virtuosity, Virtuoso Meets Maxwell 和Virtuoso Video Diary等博客专栏，或者您想了解已发布ISR中的增强功能…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , Electromagnetic analysis , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Device Arrays in the Automated Device Placement and Routing Flow

Since the release of the Automated Device Placement and Routing solution last year…

• 3 min read
Modgen On Canvas , ICADVM18.1 , MODGEN , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , APR Modgen , Advanced Node , auto device array , APR , Auto P&R , advanced nodes , ada , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

New 3D Analysis Engine Offers Faster, More Accurate Simulations at Lower Cost

A multi-CPU architecture running on both cloud and on-premise computers can better…

• 6 min read
PCB , IC , 3D full wave extraction , 3D analysis , IC package design , Sigrity , High Speed design , clarity
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