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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 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: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Grid Generation
This blog, the third one in the Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series, highlights the importance of following a gridded methodology for placement and routing. You'll see how the automated...
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Here's All You Must Know to Create a TILP
Did you get a chance to look at the outstanding posts about Technology Independent Layout Pcell (TILP) in the Virtuoso Meets Maxwell series, TILP! What’s a TILP? and Export the Die? What Am I...
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SPECTRE 19.1 Release Now Available
The SPECTRE 19.1 production release is now available for download.(read more)
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Virtuosity: An Introduction to ModGen
This blog provides an overview of Virtuoso Module Generator, also referred to as Modgen. Modgen allows you to create highly matched arrays of devices directly on the canvas. Virtuoso provides you with...
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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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Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - Grid Generation
This blog, the third one in the Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series, highlights the importance of following a gridded methodology for placement and routing. You'll see how the automated...
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Spectre Xplored - The New Spectre X Simulator
The new release of the Spectre® X Simulator (Spectre 19.1) enables large-scale verification simulation for complex analog, RF, and mixed-signal blocks and subsystems, while maintaining the golden...
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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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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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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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Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing—Row-based Device Placement
This blog, the third one in the Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing series, highlights the importance of following a gridded methodology for placement and routing. You'll see how the automated...
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Virtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes – Trunk-to-Trunk Mesh...
This blog highlights the importance of trunk-to-trunk mesh routing feature for providing customized device-level routing solutions and how it helps layout designers to be more efficient and...
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Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing—Row-based Device Placement
In this blog, I will focus on the automated placement step that is powered by an engine tailored specifically to meet the unique requirements and challenges of analog device-level layouts at advanced...
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Virtuosity: Support for Stacked Devices in Modgen
This blog provides an overview of the support for stacked devices in Modgen. This feature makes it easy for you to visualize and edit devices in highly-complex designs, which, in turn, helps achieve...
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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Add Some MAGic to Your ElectroMAGnetic Analysis
If you’ve ever seen a great magician at work, you know that their talent lies in making the impossible look easy. That’s what we have done with Electromagnetic (EM) Analysis in the Virtuoso RF...
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