Tales from DAC: Semiconductor Design in MY Cloud? It's More Likely Than You...
Everyone keeps talking about “the cloud” this and “the cloud” that these days—but you’re a semiconductor designer. Everyone keeps saying “the cloud” is revolutionizing all aspects of electronics... [[...
View ArticleGalileo Down for a Week
You might never have heard of Galileo, the European Union's GNSS, or Global Navigation Satellite System. That's because your phone probably uses the US system known as GPS or Global... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Designing a Rigid-flex Board using PCB Editor
Whether you are designing the latest pace-maker or a LED strip, you have definitely pondered awhile about rigid PCBs and flex PCBs. You might have gone through a pile of literature, called up...
View ArticleDigital Twins at the Paris Air Show
The idea of a digital twin should be easy for anyone in aerospace to understand. After all, pilots learn to fly planes on simulators of various kinds, which are digital twins. There are two main... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 28th July 2019
https://youtu.be/-36euXtgU7Y Made at Cadence Summer of Love Party (camera Chad Yee) Monday: Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication Tuesday: Virtuoso Meets Maxwell Wednesday: Computer Scientist... [[...
View ArticleLudwigsburg: It's All About Return-on-Investment
I attended the Automobil Elektronik Kongress at Ludwigsburg outside Stuttgart. it was the 23rd year that it has run, and the third that I have attended. The atmosphere has been very different at all......
View ArticleTales from DAC: Altair's HERO Is Your Hero
Emulators are great. They vastly speed up verification to the point where it’s hard to imagine life without them; as designs grow in complexity, simple simulation can’t keep up for the biggest... [[...
View Article5G in US vs Rest-of-World
While I was in Germany for the Automobil Elektronik Kongress, the results of the 5G auctions were just announced. Four companies paid €6.5B for spectrum. These were in the 2GHz and 3.5GHz bands. A......
View ArticleSpectre Tech Tips: Spectre Local Options
As an analog/mixed-signal designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre® APS for analyzing your designs. Years back, we introduced the Multi-Technology Simulation (MTS)... [[ Click on...
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR5 and ICADVM18.1 ISR5 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR5 and ICADVM18.1 ISR5 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR5 ICADVM18.1 ISR5 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with......
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Edit-in-Concert – A New Duet
'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso RF and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meet Maxwell? Now, Virtuoso supports... [[ Click...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays – xSPI Standard Explained
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda explains the xSPI standard in detail, its uses, and benefits. The xSPI spec is the first to become an official JEDEC standard.... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleIEEE Unified Power Models
Today the IEEE announced the release of IEEE 2416-2019, a standard for unified power models. Last week, I talked to Jerry Frenkil of Si2, the Silicon Integration Initiative, to get the details. As...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Capturing Design Intent for Automatic Routing in PCB Editor
Imagine you are designing a complex board with thousands of interconnects and all the usual complexities inherent in a dense design that is also highly constrained. Well, it's easy, the... [[ Click on...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Multi-Wire Bonding with Ease Using Cadence IC Packaging Tools
When wire bonding, the most common situation remains a single wire from pin to finger. There may be die to die connections as you step down from one die to the next in a stacked die situation... [[...
View ArticleGilles Lamant: Reinventing Himself
Like many creative people, Gilles Lamant, Distinguished Engineer at Cadence, has a cluttered office. But like many “crazy scientists” (his words, not mine!), he also knows what every pile contains,......
View ArticleCHIPs: Interns Around the World
Cadence has an intern program that goes under the name CHIPs, for college hires and internship programs. I gave some background on it last year in my post CHIPs in the Cadence Cafeteria , and the... [[...
View ArticleVirtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Identifying Device...
As promised, here is my next blog in the Virtuoso ® Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series. In my previous post , I spoke about the need for a fully Automated Device-Level Placement... [[...
View Article3D EM Simulation Is Necessary
Accurate 3D EM simulation is increasingly necessary as data rates increase. For example, last year Cadence announced IP for 112G long-reach SerDes . The IP lives on a 7nm chip, which is a reasonably......
View ArticleMy Boris Johnson Story
Boris Johnson is the new Prime Minister of Britain. Unlike most people who rise in politics, he has not been a career politician. Sure, he was Mayor of London from 2008 to 2016, beating the shoo-in......
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