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Virtuosity: New Flexible Subwindows
Plots in Cadence Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis can be plotted in a window or subwindow. Subwindows allow you to see plots from different analyses side by side. Until IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1, the...
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Spectre Tech Tips: Device Aging? Yes, even Silicon wears out
While most of us would like our electronic gadgets to last forever, the reality is that these gadgets have a lifetime. Most of the time, the lifetime of devices is limited by either mechanical (switch,...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 production releases are now available for download. (read more)
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Creating and Previewing Stimuli
If you've ever tried to add stimuli to your design using the Stimuli form, you'll agree it needed a revamp. Most people tend to use a vsource or isource component or a file to set up stimuli. But...
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Spectre Tech Tips: Measuring Noise in Digital Circuits
As a designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre APS for analyzing your designs. Sometimes, you use Spectre to measure noise in digital circuits. Are you confused which method to...
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Virtuosity: Filtering Plots!
If you're a regular reader of the Virtuosity series, you'll have seen a few blogs recently on filtering in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer. Well, we've extended this capability and the...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: What's New in Reliability Setup
Read this blog to know about the enhancements made to the reliability options form and to the overall reliability setup(read more)
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Virtuosity: The Top 3 Post-Layout Enhancements in Analog Design Environment
Have you ever wanted to sweep DSPF files across corners, plot terminal current and voltage and ensure that the simulator name maps correctly to the schematic name in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso...
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Virtuosity: Did My Checks Pass or Did They Not Run?
If you've ever tried to run the Checks/Asserts flow in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer, you might have found it difficult to distinguish between “all checks passed” and “no checks were...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: The Next Big Thing — ADE Verifier Teams Up with Cadence...
Need to perform functional verification of a mixed-signal design? Using the connection between Verifier and vManager, analog and digital engineers get to work together with two different tools using...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Comparing Multiple Tests and Sharing Settings
Have you been in the situation where you want to change a particular simulation setting in several of your tests in Virtuoso ADE Assembler? This can be a tedious process as you have to figure out which...
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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre APS Save Overview - Part 1
As an analog/mixed-signal designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre® APS for analyzing your designs. Saving node voltages, element, and subcircuit port currents and power is an...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes
Part I: Using the Finish Trunk Command to Automate Device-Level Routing in a User Assisted FlowThis is the first part of a mult-part blog series that will highlight features in Virtuoso that address...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 production releases are now available for download. (read more)
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Can I Put Sticky Notes on Nets When Resolving EM...
Do you know the Virtuoso Electrically Aware Design flow provides a sticky notes-kind of feature called point-to-point info balloons. These info balloons provide critical information that you would find...
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Virtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes - Using Finish Trunk
The first blog of the series talks about features that are not new but capabilities that are ground-breaking and can support your device-level routing requirements for advanced nodes with the use of...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR4 and ICADVM18.1 ISR4 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR4 and ICADVM18.1 ISR4 production releases are now available for download. (read more)
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Virtuoso RF Solution - Revolution Begins with a...
I am traveling home from the heart of the revolutionary Boston, Massachusetts, where I attended IMS 2019. It was indeed a fantastic show with a fitting location that has the history of inception of MIT...
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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre APS Save Overview - Part 2
As an analog/mixed-signal designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre APS for analyzing your designs. Saving node voltages, element, and subcircuit port currents and power is an...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: What's New in Reliability Setup
Read this blog to know about the enhancements made to the reliability options form and to the overall reliability setup(read more)
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