Innovus Implementation System: What Is Stylus UI?
Hi Everyone, Many of you would have heard about the Cadence Stylus Common UI and are wondering what it is and what the advantages might be to use it versus legacy UI. The webinar answers the... [[...
View ArticleThe Dynamic Duo
In the DC Comics world, the "Dynamic Duo" are Batman and Robin. In the Cadence product world, they are the Palladium and Protium platforms. Or Palladium Z1 and Protium X1 to give their last... [[ Click...
View ArticleIC Packagers: A New Option in Bond Finger Solder Mask Openings
If you design wire bond packages, you’re familiar with the need for the bond fingers and rings on the package substrate layers to be exposed through the solder mask layer. If they aren’t, it...
View ArticleBoardSurfers: Training Insights: Loading SKILL Programs Automatically
Imagine you are on a vacation with your family, and suddenly, your phone starts buzzing. You pick it up and what are you looking at is a bunch of pending, unanswered e-mails. You start recollecting......
View ArticleRemotely Using Cadence Tools and Licenses (part 2)
After we have shown how to get remote access to Cadence licenses and tools , the next step would be to take advantage of educational material provided by Cadence. These resources are intended to... [[...
View ArticleLearn SVA If You Know PSL and Learn PSL If You Know SVA
Training Bytes, Cadence’s self-paced learning videos, are the solution for you to get immediate answers to your specific questions. No waiting, no cost, no travel! With Training Bytes, you can focus......
View ArticleOnline Support? There's an App for That!
You are probably working from home. So is pretty much everyone at Cadence, too. This might make getting support a little trickier than normal. No application engineer is going to be dropping by your......
View ArticleQuantus' Substrate Noise Analysis Functionality: RF Spurs Impacting Your...
Is there anything called pindrop silence? Oh yes, I experienced the sound of silence when I visited an acoustic anechoic chamber. I could hear my own heartbeat, vibration of my cells, and the fluids......
View ArticleDesigning Chips for Hyperscale Data Centers: IP
Last week I wrote two posts about the progression from the first commercial computers to today's hyperscale cloud data centers. Those posts were: Getting to Hyperscale Data Centers: Mainframes to... [[...
View ArticleGenus Synthesis Solution – Introduction to Stylus Common UI
The Cadence® Genus Synthesis Solution, Innovus Implementation System, and Tempus Timing Signoff Solution have a lot of shared functionality, but in the past, the separate legacy user interfaces... [[...
View ArticleDesigning Chips for Hyperscale Data Centers: Tools
Yesterday's post, Designing Chips for Hyperscale Data Centers: IP , covered the high-performance IP that is most useful in designing hyperscale cloud data centers. Today, it is the turn of the... [[...
View ArticleExploring Genus-Joules Integration is just a click away!!
Joules RTL Power Solution provides a cockpit for RTL designers to explore and optimize the power efficiency of their designs. But this capability is now not just limited to RTL designers!! Yes, you......
View ArticleJoules – Power Exploration Capabilities
Several tools can generate power reports based on libraries & stimulus. The issue is what's NEXT? Is there any scope to improve power consumption of my design? What is the best-case power?... [[...
View ArticleSunday Brunch Video for 12th April 2020
www.youtube.com/watch Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: From Castles and Moats to Zero-Trust Networking Tuesday: The Dynamic Duo Wednesday: Online Support? There's an App for That!... [[...
View ArticleJohn Park Webinar: Is It the Age of the Chiplet?
I first started paying attention to 3D packaging many years ago. Every year there was a conference at the Hyatt in Burlingame on the topic. Everyone was convinced that 3D packaging was coming really......
View ArticleVirtuoso Meets Maxwell: Keeping Things Simple in the Virtuoso RF Solution
'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? The Virtuoso... [[ Click on the...
View ArticleThe Furthest Man Has Been from Earth
What is the furthest that man has been from Earth? And who? If I tell you that today is the 50th anniversary of that event, then you will immediately realize that it must be the three astronauts who......
View ArticleIC Packagers: Time-Saving Alternatives to Show Element
In the Allegro back-end layout products like Allegro® Package Designer Plus, it would be reasonable to assume that the most often used command is none other than show element (shortcut key F4 ).... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - TensorFlow to RTL with High-Level Synthesis
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dave Apte explains the flow from a TensorFlow description of a machine-learning network to a high quality RTL implementation by leveraging Cadence’s... [[...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Low Power SoC Design with High-Level Synthesis
In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dave Apte discusses how to create the lowest power design possible by using architectural exploration and Cadence’s Stratus HLS solution.... [[ Click on the...
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