BoardSurfers: Installing on Windows is as Easy as Updating Apps on your Smart...
Did you know that you can download and install all available Cadence® Allegro® and OrCAD® product releases and updates on Windows in an easy way using Cadence Download Manager? Yes, no... [[ Click on...
View ArticleIC Packagers: Materially Good Changes in 17.4
You should be getting used to the new 17.4 release at this point. I am willing to bet there are still exciting new improvements that you haven’t found yet. Today, allow me to show off the new... [[...
View ArticleExperience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version
OrCAD is out with its latest trial version, OrCAD Trial 2019 . Download and use the full power of the latest release of OrCAD® Capture CIS , PSpice , PCB Editor , OrCAD® Sigrity ERC , and... [[ Click...
View ArticleThe Photonics Summit 2019: Hybrid Lasers
Recently, Cadence held the second Photonics Summit and Workshop over two days. I attended the summit. The workshop was hands-on designing an RF photonics front-haul implementation. In fact, that was......
View ArticleCadence to Acquire AWR
Yesterday Cadence announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AWR from National Instruments (NI). Cadence will pay approximately $160M and about 110 AWR employees will join us. The... [[ Click...
View ArticleIC Packagers: The Third Dimension of 17.4 IC Packaging
If you’ve run the 17.4 release , you have probably seen two 3D rendering tools – 3D Viewer and 3D Canvas – present in the View menu: Why are there two? That’s a good question, and the answer lies in......
View ArticleSearch Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019
It won't be an exaggeration to say that the one common objective everyone has, is to get things done fast, without having to ask someone for help or getting into trouble. Nearly all possible... [[...
View Article"If You Can Get Your Ship into Orbit, You're Halfway to Anywhere"
I planned on using the 50th anniversary of Apollo 12 as a hook for this blog, but as it happened I was sick that week, so never wrote it, and my post missed its "launch window". Apollo 12... [[ Click...
View ArticleVirtuosity: 针对高阶工艺节点的器件级布线工具 — Finish Trunk
Virtuoso® Layout Suite 新添加了许多“以客户为本”的增强功能。为了帮助用户在处理日益复杂的高级工艺节点的设计时，更好地运用这些功能，我们将推出Virtuoso 器件级布线系列博客，详细介绍各种新功能，以及如何实现从手动和辅助布线到自动布线。 请持续关注接下来的相关博客. 您是否用过Finish Trunk 命令并且了解其功能？ 在一个步骤里，Finish... [[ Click...
View ArticleOpenROAD: Open-Source EDA from RTL to GDSII
OpenROAD is a DARPA program to attempt to build a no-human-in-the-loop EDA flow, using only open-source software. The goal is to go from RTL to GDSII fully automatically. In a leading-edge process......
View ArticlePhotonics Summit: Lumerical-Cadence Flow
James Pond, the CTO of Lumerical, wrapped up the Photonics Summit recently. He started by giving an overview of the Lumerical-Cadence flow but the real focus of his short presentation was creating......
View ArticleLibrary Characterization Tidbits: Creating Statistical Libraries for Standard...
Hello everyone! I am Aravind R, Principal Support AE at Cadence, and I have been supporting various users at our customer sites to generate and validate various formats of standard cell and IO... [[...
View ArticleSystem in Package, Why Now?
At HOT CHIPS this summer, one of the things I noticed was just how many of the designs being presented were in some form of 3D packaging with multiple die. I wrote about many of them in my post HOT......
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 8th December 2019
https://youtu.be/3gP0Z02MVps Made at Salinas River State Park (camera Carey Guo) Monday: The Photonics Summit 2019: Hybrid Lasers Tuesday: Cadence to Acquire AWR Wednesday: "If You Can Get Your... [[...
View ArticleCashing the PSS Promises
A little bit of everything in the blog today: PSS is All Over As someone that was involved with UVM and PSS, both becoming Accellera standards, it is exciting to see both growing independently and......
View ArticleXcelium is 50% Faster on AWS's New Arm Server Chip
At Re:invent, Amazon AWS announced Graviton 2, their second-generation Arm server chip. In the AWS news blog , written by Jeff Barr, AWS Chief Evangelist, he provides details. Today I would like to......
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part IV
'Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and potential of Virtuoso® RF Solution and Virtuoso MultiTech. So, how does Virtuoso meets Maxwell? Now, the... [[ Click on...
View ArticleCadence at CES 2020: Tensilica Everywhere
Once again, Cadence will be at CES in Las Vegas. It takes place January 7 to 10, 2020, the start of a new decade. I wonder what electronic marvels we will see before 2030 rolls around. We will be in......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Copy and Paste Refresh in 17.4
The most common operations in any tool are probably adding, moving, deleting… plus copying and pasting. The fact that we all are familiar with Control-C and Control-V being shortcuts to these...
View ArticleVirtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR8 and ICADVM18.1 ISR8 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR8 and ICADVM18.1 ISR8 production releases are now available for download at Cadence Downloads . IC6.1.8 ISR8 ICADVM18.1 ISR8 For information on supported platforms, compatibility with......
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