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Virtuosity: Cdsenv Editor – Simplifying Virtuoso Customization
Customization is the need of the day. From picking an ice cream flavor to outfitting a premium car, we all want a product customized according to our needs and expectations.Virtuoso users are no...
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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 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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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: TILP! What’s a TILP?
I have been breathing IC layout design for the last 38 years! Proliferating new Cadence products in the industry has been an enriching experience. Here I come to talk about yet another powerful...
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Virtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes – Using Generate Trunks
The Trunk Generation feature is the founding piece that offers incremental productivity improvement with automation over Pin to Trunk, while still providing all the customizable options in the Pin to...
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Learn Your Moves – We’re Doing an Edit-in-Concert
This blog showcases the Edit-in-Concert technology available in the Cadence Virtuoso RF Solution, which lets designers view and edit die packages and their corresponding die layouts synchronously.(read...
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Virtuosity: Introducing Automated Device Placement and Routing in Virtuoso
This blog provides an overview of the fully automated device-level placement and routing solution, which is available at advanced nodes. (read more)
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Export the Die? What Am I Exporting? To Where?
Here I come back with another episode of TILP of the Virtuoso Meets Maxwell series! In my earlier post "TILP! What's A TILP?", I introduced the concept of Technology Independent Layout Pcell (TILP)....
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Virtuosity: bindStrict or Not in Virtuoso in the Times of Chandrayaan 2
Really, can Virtuoso bind strict? And what does that mean? Read along to find out...(read more)
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Tales from DAC: The New Spectre Simulator Is Here!
If you’re doing circuit simulation anywhere in the world, you’re probably already familiar with the Cadence Spectre® simulator. The Spectre simulator is an accurate and high-performance SPICE circuit...
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Tales from DAC: MediaTek's Experience with Spectre X Simulator
MediaTek recently gave the new Spectre X Simulator a try, and they talked about their experiences with it at DAC 2019 in a presentation given by YY Chen in the Cadence Theater.Spoiler alert: they loved...
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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre Local Options
As an analog/mixed-signal designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre® APS for analyzing your designs. Years back, we introduced the Multi-Technology Simulation (MTS) solution that...
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Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR5 and ICADVM18.1 ISR5 Now Available
The IC6.1.8 ISR5 and ICADVM18.1 ISR5 production releases are now available for download. (read more)
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Edit-in-Concert – A New Duet
This blog highlights a video that demonstrates how to use the Edit-in-Concert mode to edit die packages and layouts. Edit-in-Concert, also referred to as Co-design, is a design editing mode in the...
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Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Identifying Device...
This blog highlights the importance of identifying device groups and topologies in the fully automated device-level placement and routing flow in Virtuoso.(read more)
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Stimuli with Variable Sweeps Videos and Rapid Adoption Kit
You're probably thinking, "wasn't there a recent blog on the new Stimuli Assignment form in ADE." Well yes, that's right, but we wanted to offer more functionality so from IC6.1.8 ISR4, we now have the...
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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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