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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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Verification

Connecting OVM Testbench and SystemC TLM2 IP

1. Introduction With TLM2 enabling more sophisticated SystemC IP interoperability…

• 9 min read
TLM2 IP , System Design and Verification , OVM , SystemC , testbench

Verification

C-to-Silicon Compiler Is The Only ESL Tool With ECO Capabilities

Another key differentiator of C-to-Silicon Compiler (CtoS) when compared to other…

• 1 min read
ECO , CTOS , RTL , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silicon , ESL

Verification

IMPORT Guidelines For e, Part 1

[Team Specman welcomes AE Manager Avi Behar as our newest guest blogger] Hi, my name…

• 4 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , Avi Behar , OVM e , Register Package , e , OVM-e , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP , IES-XL

Digital Design

'Back to School' in April? Are you Kidding?

No, I am not kidding. in fact, we have planned several 'back to school' seminars…

• 1 min read
digital Implementationg , Low Power , encounter 8.1 , Low-Power , encounter , Manufacturability sign-off , 8.1 , Digital Implementation , "SoC-Encounter" , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

DVCon '09 SaaS Panel Thoughts, Part 2

In my last post on the DVCon 2009 panel on Software As A Service , or " SaaS " as…

• 3 min read
security , SaaS , Functional Verification , Harry The ASIC Guy , DVcon

RF Engineering

Setting Up Harmonic Balance - Part 1

This is the first of a series of Blogs to talk about how to fill out the forms for…

• 3 min read
MMSIM71 , Spectre RF , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Dynamic Fillets in Allegro PCB Editor? Check out the SPB16.2 Release

The existing Fillet application, a function of the Gloss routine, has been enhanced…

• 1 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB Editor , Allegroro , PCB design , Dynamic Fillets , t-juntions

System, PCB, & Package Design 

It’s All In The Metrics

You could be forgiven for thinking that this was going to be a discussion of the…

• 3 min read
Allegro Design Workbench , PCB design , metrics , enterprise integration

Digital Design

Does Noise Analysis Accuracy Really Matter?

There have been a lot of new faces springing up in the signoff analysis market over…

• 2 min read
Static timing analysis , Signoff Analysis , STA , Advanced Node , Mixed-Signal , 8.1 , Encounter Digital Implementation , CeltIC NDC , Global Timing Debug , SSTA , "SoC-Encounter"

SoC and IP

Taiwan Memory Company (TMC), Part III

"EDIT: I have corrected Etron's 2007 P& L entry to show a net profit of 39M instead…

• 7 min read

Verification

New eDocs Makes Documenting Fun!

Documentation. This single word tends to sends shivers up the spine of many an engineer…

• 3 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , specman elite , OOP , hvl , AOP , verification

Verification

Tech Tip: Determining When a Sequence Has Finished

Imagine the complex scenario whereby you start the *same* sequence on multiple sub…

• 1 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , Functional Verification , OVM e , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , AOP

Verification

Users Report on OVM in a Multi-Language World: Results From DVCon

The OVM user reports from Xilinx, SiRF, and ST at the DVCon luncheon were real engineer…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , OVM , OVM e , OVM SV , e , DVcon , SystemC , OVM SC

Verification

DVCon '09 SaaS Panel Thoughts, Part 1

[Preface / Disclaimer: I haven't yet had the pleasure of working closely with Cadence…

• 1 min read
SaaS , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Harry The ASIC Guy , DVcon , coverage driven verification (CDV)

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Everything You Want to Know About APD / SiP 16.2 - Bill Acito Webinar on March 1…

(N ote: Click here to view Bill Acito's webinar.) If you caught Jerry GenPart 's…

• less than a min read
SiP , 16.2 , APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , webinar , HDI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro® Design Entry HDL – User Customizations? You Tell Me!

Well ... if you like tweaking and tuning an environment to suit your needs, Allegro…

• 1 min read
SPB 16.2 , CDNLive! 2008 , DEHDL , PCB design , SPB16.01 , Allegro

Digital Design

How To Use I/O Rows - It's a Snap!

Have you ever tried manually moving IO cells in your design and thought: "This would…

• 1 min read
encounter 8.1 , Floorplanning , Digital Implementation , i/o rows

Verification

SystemC Save and Restore Part 2 - Advanced Usage

In my last post I discussed how to use save / restore in the Cadence Incisive Simulator…

• 3 min read
System Design and Verification , embedded software , Incisive , virual platform , virtual prototype , George Frazier , SystemC , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL

Digital Design

Talk "Low Power" With The Experts

I am very excited about an event that Cadence low-power R&D and technical experts…

• less than a min read
Low Power , Digital Implementation forums , Low-Power , Power-Efficient Design , encounter , Logic Design , 8.1 , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1 , verification
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