Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Grid Generation
I'm back with my next post in the Virtuoso ® Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series . In my first post , I spoke about the need for the Automated Device-Level Placement and... [[ Click on...
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View ArticleFord: Automotive OEM to Software Manufacturer?
Soon after Marc Andreesen founded the venture capital firm Andreesen-Horowitz (a16z) ten years ago, he wrote a piece, Why Software Is Eating the World , that the WSJ published in 2011. I happened to......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Rule Your Package Designs
When it comes to package design, spacing often reigns supreme. The location readout in the bottom status bar of the tool will always tell you where your cursor is in the design; this can show either......
View ArticleNow Access COS Directly from the Tool interface
As designs become complex and performance targets increase, time shrinks. Designers need to minimize time setting up design flows or trying to find workaround for many issues that might occur during......
View ArticleCDNLive China 2019
A couple of weeks ago it was CDNLive China in Shanghai. (To read about how I got into town from Shanghai Pudong Airport, see my post Maglev Trains .) Once again, I was giving away copies of A Year...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: PCB Design Technique for Designing a Small RF Section in a...
Are you designing a 5G or radar application that requires RF components? Are cost, size-reduction, and performance improvement major concerns for you? Most probably they are. Here we talk about an......
View ArticleSpectre Xplored - The New Spectre X Simulator
The new release of the Spectre® X Simulator (Spectre 19.1) enables large-scale verification simulation for complex analog, RF, and mixed-signal blocks and subsystems, while maintaining the... [[ Click...
View ArticleThe Cadence Academic Network
Just a few weeks ago, I attended a workshop that many Cadence employees were encouraged to take. My group was a nice cross-section of about twenty people across organizations at Cadence, and it was......
View ArticleCDNLive India 2019: And The Best Paper Award Goes To...
What a whirlwind of two months it has been! And it has been totally worth it, with CDNLive India featuring a huge number of customers, fantastic user-authored presentations and insightful keynotes....
View ArticleVirtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing—Row-based Device Placement
Welcome back to my blog series— Virtuoso ® Automated Device Placement and Routing . In my earlier blogs in this series, I had touched upon the two foundational blocks of this solution, automated... [[...
View ArticleLabor Day Off-Topic: Have You Been to Suomi?
If you've been in the semiconductor, electronics, or mobile business for some time, chances are that you have been to Suomi. At one point it was the leader in mobile phone handsets. You just... [[...
View ArticleInterns Making an Impact
Being an intern at Cadence was a rewarding and impactful experience that kickstarted my career. I got a firsthand view of life in Silicon Valley working with a tech company. Being an intern at a... [[...
View ArticleGirls Who Code Reflect on Their Summer at Cadence!
This summer, 21 tenth- and eleventh-grade girls came to Cadence’s San Jose campus as part of our partnership with Girls Who Code. The Summer Immersion Program lasted seven weeks and provided the... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 1st September 2019
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View ArticleVirtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes – Trunk-to-Trunk Mesh...
After generating trunks, the next step is to connect the trunks together. This blog in the Virtuoso Device-level routing blog series covers how the connections to the trunks can be made to prevent...
View ArticleHOT CHIPS: The Tesla Full Self-Driving Computer
On April 22, Tesla held its Autonomy Day . They announced their "Self-Driving Computer" or SDC. (You can read my post from back then in my post Tesla Drives into Chip Design .) I have said... [[ Click...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Manufacturing Cross-Hatched Shapes
If you use cross-hatched shapes in your package design, you are doubtless aware of some considerations. Namely, if your shape outline is anything but a rectangular outline at a multiple of the hatch......
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You have prepared your design for placement; the design environment and technology processes are set, the padstacks and package symbols are ready, the board outline is there, the layer stackup is... [[...
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One of the earliest science experiments I can remember doing was crushing red cabbage in a mortar and pestle with some sort of alcohol. The resulting purple liquid would turn red in acid and blue in......
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