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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之3：新的PAD编辑器——不只是一个新GUI
客户反馈是产品改善的关键 当您在理解Allegro 17.2-2016发行版的特点和优势时，我可以猜到您在想什么。“哦不，他们对我的工作环境做了什么破坏？”如果您已使用Allegro多年了，您就会理解我的意思。我们称之为零版本的发行版被用来建立数据库/改变架构，会导致某种程度上的升级中断。17.2有效结合了零版本和17.0 EAP(Early Access...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR22 and ICADV12.3 ISR22 Now Available
The IC6.1.7 ISR22 and ICADV12.3 ISR22 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.7 ISR22 ICADV12.3 ISR22 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with...
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Virtuosity: Opening Old ADE States and Views with ADE Explorer and ADE Assembler
Have you found it a pain that when opening a Virtuoso ® ADE L state or a Virtuoso ® ADE XL view that the default application is still the old ADE L or XL? If you've moved on to Virtuoso ® ADE Assembler...
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Labor Day Off-Topic: Almost Everyone Has More Than the Average Number of Legs
It's Labor Day. Cadence is closed in the US. Unfortunately, I'm in India and it's not a holiday here. It's CDNLive India later in the week. As is traditional, I will post about...whatever I feel like....
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Ambit Design Systems
Twenty years ago today, Cadence announced it was acquiring Ambit Design Systems. Actually, the anniversary of the announcement is really September 3rd, but since that is a public holiday this year, I...
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Whiteboard Wednesdays - What You need to Know About ISO26262-2018 2nd Edition
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a multi-part series, Scott Jacobson explores the changes in the upcoming ISO26262-2018 standard update and how they affect semiconductor design....
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APAC IC Design Contests
China Graduate IC Design Contest Contest Duration: April – August 2018 This is Cadence’s second time supporting the China Graduate IC Design Contest. This contest provided graduate students with the...
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And Then There Were Three: GLOBALFOUNDRIES Drops 7nm to Focus on Other...
If you watch the Tour de France cycling, then everyone goes along on the flat in a pack called the peloton, since the effort involved surrounded by other cyclists can be less than 20% of the effort of...
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Numbers Everyone Should Know
At the recent HOT CHIPS, Paul Turner of Google Project Zero talked about numbers everyone should know. These numbers, actually latencies, seem originally to come from Peter Norvig but have been updated...
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GLOBALFOUNDRIES Drops 7nm to Focus on Other Geometries
GF put out a press release last week with the title GF Reshapes Technology Portfolio to Intensify Focus on Growing Demand for Differentiated Offerings . What this actually means is that GF is putting...
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 10th to 14th 2018
https://youtu.be/iv9wdAVB6vg Coming from CDNLive India (camera Seena Shankar) Monday: CDNLive India Tuesday: Numbers Everyone Should Know Wednesday: Spectre/Meltdown and What It Means for Future Design...
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PCAST: The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology
In January 2017, a report Ensuring Long-Term U.S.Leadership in Semiconductors was delivered to the President. It was not yet the 20th of the month, so that was still President Obama. I read the report...
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Virtuoso: The Next Overture – Introducing Design Planner
The new release of the Virtuoso platform (ICADVM18.1) offers groundbreaking analysis capabilities and an innovational new simulation-driven layout for more robust and efficient design implementation as...
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Measurement of Phase Noise in Oscillators
The other day, I happened to sneak out some time for myself after having sent the kids to play in the neighborhood park. I made myself a hot cup of coffee and settled on the couch hoping to enjoy the...
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升级到Allegro17.2-2016的10大理由之4：行业领先的背钻能力
背钻的发展历程 15年来，在很多电子设计中处理5Gbps或更高频率的高速接口布线已越来越常见。在信号过孔上存在Stub的情况下，高速信号换层将会对信号完整性产生巨大影响。总的来说，这些短截线会造成阻抗不连续和信号反射，严重影响有效数据传输速率的提升。 （点击查看大图） 如何消除电子短截线？ 使用一种称之为背钻的制板工艺，有时也被称为控制深度过孔。...
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New Sigrity 3D Workbench Used in Designing and Optimizing Next Generation...
2018 is going to be remembered as the year of 3D for Sigrity. As part of Cadence’s Sigrity 2018 release , we introduced the new Sigrity 3D Workbench technology included as part of the Sigrity PowerSI ®...
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CDNLive India
CDNLive India took place last week. As usual, I made the long trip from California, nearly 30 hours door to door. There is aways something remarkable on these long flights and this time it was the WiFi...
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Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1
At HOT CHIPS, one of the "keynotes" was actually a panel of what I'll call industry luminaries. They were discussing the implications of vulnerabilities such as Spectre, Meltdown, and the recently...
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Automation Is the End of the World (Or Not)
“Oh no! Automation is going to cause massive job losses, causing the downfall of society itself!” shriek the pundits who look at employment figures. Now, this may be true. There’s no question that...
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Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 2
I gave an introduction to speculative execution and the vulnerabilities that have come to light this year in yesterday's post Spectre/Meltdown & What It Means for Future Design 1 . There were 4...
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