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Take Your Via Structures from Ordinary to Exceptional with 16.6 IC Packaging...
Via structures—those reusable patterns of conductor clines and vias designers rely on to maximize their productivity—have a long-standing place in the robust escape routing feature set in the Cadence...
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Test Your Units Before Your Units Test You — Testing Your Testbench
Bugs are a part of life in any complex software development project. This is no different in the testbench development world. Most bugs get discovered eventually. The question is: At which stage of the...
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Front-End Design Summit: The Future of RTL Synthesis and Design for Test
You don't hear much about RTL synthesis or design for test (DFT) these days, probably because many people think these are long-solved problems. But according to speakers at the Cadence Front-End Design...
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Is Printed Circuit Board Design Too Boring?
Printed circuit board (PCB) design has long been considered a less-glamorous aspect of engineering than, say, microprocessor design or application-software design. This, despite the fact that in areas...
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Support for Low Power Mixed Signal Designs in Virtuoso Schematic-XL
Why is There a Need for Low Power Solutions?With an increase in the demand for high-performance, multi-tasking systems-on-chips (SoCs) for communication and computing, the power requirements for these...
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Q&A: MEMS Begin to Enter the Semiconductor Design Mainstream
Micro-electrical mechanical systems (MEMS) have been a niche technology for many years, but a new generation of MEMS ICs is emerging, according to Mike Jamiolkowski, CEO of Cadence partner and MEMS...
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Practical Guide to the UVM for $15 - Virginia, There is a Santa!
Wondering what to get the verification engineer on your list? You know, the one with the zealous love of SystemVerilog and UVM? It's the Practical Guide to Adopting the UVM, Second Edition for only...
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Embedded Vision's Transformative Potential
Embedded vision, a "once-in-a-generation" technology, is a enormous and lucrative opportunity for the semiconductor ecosystem, but compute and system-design issues post challenges in the short...
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Top Ten Cadence Community Blog Posts of 2013
In 2013, Cadence Community bloggers published over 375 posts in categories including Industry Insights, Functional Verification, Fuller View, PCB, IC Packaging, Custom IC, System Design and...
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25 Anniversary: Enabling Electronics' Big Embrace
To give you some context for his historical viewpoint, Fabrizio Sacchi's first design was a 70-transistor preamp for a television remote control. He worked on that at a time when Bettino Craxi became...
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2013: Quickening the Pace of Electronics Innovation?
I look back at electronics innovation in 2013 through the rosy lens of a 2012 event.In October of that year, I was driving across the California desert, and I watched--live--Austrian daredevil Felix...
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SpectreRF Tutorials and Appnotes... Shhhh... We Have a NEW Best Kept Secret!
It's been a while since you've heard from me...it has been a busy year for sure. One of the reasons I've been so quiet is that I was part of a team working diligently on our latest best kept secret:...
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What Comes Next in IC Fault Modeling?
The way in which IC designers model potential faults has a direct impact on the quality of silicon and the cost of test. At advanced nodes, fault models must evolve to more accurately represent real...
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IEEE 1801/UPF Tutorial from Accellera—Watch and Learn
If you weren't able to attend the 2013 DVCon, you missed out on a great IEEE 1801/UPF tutorial delivered by members of the IEEE committee. Accellera had the event recorded and that recording is now...
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Virtuosity: 12 Things I Learned in November by Browsing Cadence Online Support
New content on a wide variety of topics in November.Product Information 1. Cadence Online Support Release HighlightsFind out about all the new improvements which have been made to the Product Pages on...
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Generic dynamic run-time operations with e reflection Part II
Field access and method invocationsIn the previous blog, we explained what are untyped variables and value holders in e, and how to assign and retrieve values to/from them. In this and the next blogs,...
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Top Cadence YouTube Videos of 2013
Recognizing that video has become a key tool for explaining new technology, Cadence stepped up its video production in 2013. As a result, there are nearly 400 videos at the Cadence YouTube channel....
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Over 300 CDNLive 2013 Presentations Now Available – Along with Dates for 2014
The worldwide CDNLive conferences present unique opportunities to learn about challenges faced by design and verification engineers, and the solutions they've developed using Cadence tools. Whether you...
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Have You Tried the New Transmission Line Library (rfTlineLib)?
Happy New Year! Have you tried the new Transmission Line Library (rfTlineLib) yet? In case you missed it, rfTlineLib was introduced in IC 6.1.6 ISR1 plus MMSIM 12.1.1 -or- MMSIM13.1. You may...
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Technology and Electronics Design Innovation: Big Things, Small Packages
In addition to resting and recharging, I usually spend the holidays thinking about what will be the hot technology topics in the coming year. I do this not because of the existing technology itself but...
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