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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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Learning and Support

What's New in Cadence Help 3.0?

I am sure you would agree when I say that a help tool is the one utility without…

• 3 min read
Self-Help , Cadence Help , Help resource , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

COTS? Commercial Products in US Government Electronics

COTS is government jargon for Commercial Off-The-Shelf. This means the government…

• 8 min read
us government , minsec , department of defense

The India Circuit

Four Exciting Examples of Modern AI from NVIDIA

A few months ago, we had the honor of having Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director of…

• 4 min read
artificial intelligence , deep learning , NVIDIA , machine learning , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: SKILLful Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis

If you’re a SKILL enthusiast, you’ll be happy to know that the latest IC6.1.7 ISR…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ViVa-XL , custom/analog , Analog Simulation , SKILL for the Skilled , ADE , Virtuoso , ViVA , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , SKILL , Cusstom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM 2017

The start of December means it is the International Electron Devices Meeting in San…

• 6 min read
Intel , copper beol , 3D IC , AMD , georgia tech , Samsung , TSMC , fanout wafer packaging , GlobalFoundries

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Can I Graphically Edit Width Spacing Patterns?

We have enhanced the editing modes available for WSPs. In addition to the text-based…

• 1 min read
Routing , Advanced Node , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design

Academic Network

2017 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation in Tainan Taiwan

It was the third continuous year that Cadence Academic Network supported the Workshop…

• 1 min read
Taiwan , Cadence Academic Network , EDA

Breakfast Bytes

Greg Yeric and Rob Aitken Dive into the Details

The last day of TechCon had two keynotes rich in deeper technical content, from Greg…

• 6 min read
security , greg yeric , graphen , IoT , trillion devices , Rob Aitken , more than Moore , moore's law , power

Breakfast Bytes

Advanced Packaging Delivers More Than Moore

Moore's Law is running out of steam. Depending on your point of view, it is dead…

• 8 min read
FOWLP , advanced packaging , 3DIC , Virtuoso , OrbitIO , Innovus , 2.5D , Allegro

Digital Design

Get Early Silicon Learning to Accelerate Yield Ramp-up

How important is it for your advanced node products to get early silicon learning…

• 2 min read
DNA , pattern analysis , machine learning , silicon learning , yield , test chip , design for manufacturing , DFM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 2

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett continues his explanation of neural…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , neural networks

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Can I Plot Signals with Different Axis Units in the Same Window?

Have you been frustrated trying to drag signals around in Virtuoso Visualization…

• 1 min read
virtuoso visualization and analysis , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment , ViVA

Breakfast Bytes

Supercomputers

HPC, or high-performance computing, is one of the big focus areas for semiconductors…

• 9 min read
Intel , top 500 list , top500 , supercomputer

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: CDNLive India—Our Window to KYC!

In line with the recently-implemented mandate in India requiring banks and financial…

• 1 min read
CDNLive India 2017 , Cadence Help Future , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Cadence Help 3.0

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 11th to 15th 2017

https://youtu.be/Ar98HS9Dnow Coming from Union Square, San Francisco (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
government , risc-v , International Electron Devices Meeting , cots , risc-v workshop , Aviation , IEDM

SoC and IP

Book Your CES Meetings Now!

Want to see the exciting technology that is behind some of the biggest innovations…

• 1 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Formal Verification Sign-Off...and the First Text Message

Recently, it was the 10th annual Jasper User Group meeting (see my earlier post Jasper…

• 8 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , Oski Technology , Formal verification

RF Engineering

How to Set Up and Plot Large-Signal S Parameters?

Large-signal S-parameters (LSSPs) are an extension of small-signal S-parameters and…

• 1 min read
RF Simulation , Spectre RF , Virtuoso ADE , Virtuoso

Verification

Perspec System Verifier is #1 in Portable Stimulus in 2017 User Survey

It’s now official: Perspec System Verifier is rated the #1 product in the #1 category…

• 3 min read
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