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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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DesignCon: The Integrity Show

It's the end of January and that means DesignCon. It is January 29th to 31st in the…

• 3 min read
PCB , DesignCon , Power Integrity , silicon photonics , Signal Integrity , photonics , Sigrity

The India Circuit

A Boost For Fabless Chip Design in India

There was a lot of excitement when the National Policy on Electronics was announced…

• 3 min read
National Policy on Electronics , entrepreneurship , Electropreneur Park , SFAL , FabCi , ESDM , npe

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Sunday Brunch Video for 20th January 2019

https://youtu.be/Bs5A09med6Q Made at the Cadence campus in the rain (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
alphazero , CES , AMD , Tensilica , EUV , IEDM

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

了解DDR5技术之前需要知道什么是AMI与IBIS

本文翻译自Cadence "Breakfast Bytes"专栏作者Paul McLellan文章" AMI and IBIS: Who Put the Eye…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ddr5 , DDR4 , AMI , equalization , 均衡 , IBIS , 中文 , SerDes , Sigrity

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MLK Off-topic: The Lady with the Polar Chart

It's Martin Luther King day on Monday, and Cadence is off. I think that this is the…

• 5 min read
offtopic , florence nightingale , statistics

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Cadence Sigrity at DesignCon 2019

Happy new year! We want to invite you to visit us in booth 711 on the DesignCon…

• 1 min read
SI , PI , electronics/photonic design automation , DesignCon , Multi-Gigabit , Advanced IC packaging , Power Integrity , IC package design , IBIS-AMI , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , SerDes , DDR , Sigrity

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: What's New in Run Plan – Part III

After two interesting blogs by Yagya Mishra that explained the most popular features…

• 3 min read
Analog Design Environment , ICADVM18.1 , Rapid Adoption Kit , ADE , worst case corners , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Run Plan , Custom IC Design , RAKs , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

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Virtuoso视频日记：这根线是怎样连接的？

Virtuoso Schematic Editor L 的Probes工具是连接辅助工具，能满足您识别已存在的连接关系，过滤这些连接关系，并且将探测路径信息存为CSV文件…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , Virtuoso Schematic Editor , Virtuoso Video Diary , Probes assistant , Net Connections , Custom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: EUV, the Road to HVM and Beyond

At IEDM in December, the Sunday preceding the conference proper consists of two short…

• 8 min read
asml , EUV , IEDM

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AlphaZero: Four Hours to World Class from a Standing Start

Last year I wrote about AlphaZero in my post Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero .…

• 7 min read
deep learning , alphazero , go , AI , stockfish , chess

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DesignCon 2019: Is this the Year?

2019 has started --- is this the year of advanced packaging, where system design…

• 1 min read
DesignCon , packaging

Verification

Verification of ML IP and Specman—Our Hackathon Project

If you are lucky enough and your company spends a few working days each year on a…

• 7 min read
ml , Specman , Specman/e , Specman e , machine learning , specman elite , verification coverage , verification

Breakfast Bytes

AMD Keynote at CES

As I said in my post about CES last week (see my post Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI…

• 9 min read
Lisa Su , CES , AMD

Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica at CES

Tensilica has been attending CES for many years, before it was acquired by Cadence…

• 3 min read
hifi 5 , CES , Vision P6 , Tensilica , dna100

Analog/Custom Design

Accurate Pin-to-Pin Resistance Modeling for Wide, Slotted Metal Structures Using…

In Analog/RF layouts, designers frequently use slotted metal structures. Such slotting…

• 3 min read
Extraction , Quantus

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Gordon Moore Killed the Oakland Tribune

The Oakland Tribune closed down in 2016. It remains to be seen if the San Jose Mercury…

• 7 min read
newspapers , journalism

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Consumer Electronics: 5G, AI, and Air Taxis

I'm sure you've heard the great marketing catchphrase that "What happens in Vegas…

• 5 min read
Apple , Consumer Electronics , CES , ces2019

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Saving Time, Effort, and Money with Express Pcells

Use the Express Pcell feature and see for yourself how you can save time, effort…

• 3 min read
Advanced Node , Express Pcell , pcell , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Layout design , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Parameterized Cell , Custom IC , Layout Editing

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SiFive: The Magnificent Seven

At least for now, I think that the most significant of the RISC-V processor companies…

• 7 min read
risc-v , ARM , sifive
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