What’s Good About PSpice.com? You’ve Got to See This New Resource Site!
PSpice.com is a new user-community web portal that lets designers, partners, and students access materials related to PSpice® analog and mixed-signal simulation and analysis in one central location....
View ArticleCadence Online Support – Empowering Learning! New Learnings - February, March...
Cadence Online Support Features “ Most Popular ”: This section displays content items based on your “search” and technology platform selections. Use My Support - What's New to explore the new features...
View ArticleCadence Online Support—Empowering Learning! New Learnings from June 2016
Cadence Online Support Features " You might also be interested in ” Section “You might also be interested in” section in Cadence Online Support (COS) section is present immediately under the document...
View ArticleCDNLive India
CDNLive India is coming up on August 9th and 10th in Bengaluru. I will be there and so Breakfast Bytes will be covering some of what goes on there. It is not my first trip to India or even to Bengaluru...
View Articleimec: Promising Technologies to Extend Semiconductor Scaling
For all that we’ve heard about the impending demise of Moore’s Law, there is a pipeline full of new materials, device architectures, and techniques that offers promise to further extend semiconductor...
View ArticleAdding Weighted Noise Via Calculator Custom Function
Applying a weighting factor to a Noise Summary run requires lots of steps and the results cannot be evaluated without using the form. Wouldn't it be much easier if you could have a calculator function...
View ArticlePathfinding Beyond 5nm
One of the most interesting sessions that I attended at SEMICON West the week before last was titled Pathfinding Beyond 5nm . This was moderated by David Hemker, the CTO of Lam Research. An Steegen,...
View ArticleCadence Online Support—Empowering Learning! New Learnings—Sigrity 2016
Cadence Online Support Features Setting up ‘My Alerts” The My Alerts section displays a count of the new content items added. This is generated taking into account your notification, search and...
View ArticleWhiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the New Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP
In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Paul Garden provides an introduction to the new Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP for automotive, mobile, industrial, and general embedded DSP applications. He’ll...
View ArticleGimme a G...Gimme a 3...Whatcha Got?...DSP
Today at the Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference in Santa Clara, Cadence is announcing the latest Tensilica DSP. The Tensilica ® Fusion G3 is a multi-purpose low-power DSP targeted at mobile and...
View ArticleIEDM, New This Year
It might seem a bit premature to be talking about IEDM since it isn't until December. But the deadline for submissions has been extended this year to August 10 (so still just a couple of weeks away)....
View ArticleWhy Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Advanced Flex and Rigid-Flex Design Support...
Why Rigid-Flex? For nearly all applications, customers continue to demand smaller, lighter, and more cost-effective products. Competitive pressures also force designers to bring these new products to...
View ArticleAdding Weighted Noise Via Calculator Custom Function
Applying a weighting factor to a Noise Summary run requires lots of steps and the results cannot be evaluated without using the form. Wouldn't it be much easier if you could have a calculator function...
View ArticleVirtuoso Video Diary: Getting Started with the New ADE Product Suite
Hey, did you hear the buzz around the new Virtuoso ADE product suite, which was introduced in IC6.1.7? The products in this suite—Virtuoso ADE Explorer, Virtuoso ADE Assembler, and Virtuoso ADE...
View ArticleWhat's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Two-Layer PCB Support? Check Out 16.6!
By default, the top and bottom stackup layers do not support the placement of embedded components. When an attempt is made to change ‘Embedded Status’ to either ‘Body up’ or ‘Body down’, the system...
View ArticleWhat's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Smart Layer Behavior for Add Connect?...
When using the Add Connect command in the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor , the active layer field will now automatically synchronize to that of a single visible layer. Previously, any visibility adjustment to...
View ArticleWhat's Good About ADW’s Model Management? 16.6 Has a Few New Enhancements!
New Model Management capabilities are now available in the SPB 16.6 Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) release. The new model management capability involves creating an environment that manages new model...
View ArticleNokia's Rise and Fall...and Maybe Rise Again
If you live in the US, then it is hard to believe how dominant Nokia was in mobile. For a time, one in every three mobile phones sold was a Nokia. But they were never a major force in the US for...
View ArticleCDNLive Boston Preview
The full agenda for CDNLive Boston is now available. This is really "East Coast" CDNLive since it is the only CDNLive in the US outside of Silicon Valley. I've not been before, but I understand that...
View ArticleDAC 2016: 5 Ways to Boost Your Productivity Designing Custom with Advanced Nodes
It’s a huge conundrum: as process nodes shrink, design times grow longer, while project schedules remain the same or get reduced. Growing the design team isn’t always an option. “There are not enough...
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