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Virtuosity: 19 Things I Learned in April 2014 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Plenty to keep you busy this month. Lots of RAKs, videos, and new Quick Start Guides and FAQs.Application Notes1. Using Annotation Browser with Virtuoso IPVSLearn how to invoke the Annotation Browser...
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Virtuosity: 21 Things I Learned in May and June 2014 by Browsing Cadence...
Application Notes1. Setting PVS to QRC av_extracted Flow with tsmc28 (& tsmc40) LVSShows you how to put in place the PVS(LVS)-QRC(av_extracted) view using TSMC files.Videos2. Mismatch Contribution...
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EDA Plus Academia: A Perfect Game, Set and Match
Excuse the tennis analogy, but just coming out of Wimbledon! However, EDA and academia have had a long-standing tennis match, if you will, in which there is a "give and take" between the EDA world...
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Virtuosity: 20 Things I Learned in July and August 2014 by Browsing Cadence...
Apologies for skipping a month, but things got a bit hectic, so enjoy a double-dose of browsing today.Application Notes1. Cadence Online Support Release HighlightsNew features for searching and...
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Mismatch Contribution Analysis in Virtuoso Analog Design Environment GXL
When Monte Carlo analysis shows device mismatch variation has become problematic, Virtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) GXL Mismatch Contribution Analysis can provide useful diagnostics as a next...
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What's New(-ish) in ADE XL in IC 616 ISR 3?
Development Model for ADE and ViVAVirtuoso Analog Design Environment (ADE) and ViVA follow a development model that allows new content to be added in every third ISR. These content ISRs receive...
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Virtuosity: 15 Things I Learned in March 2014 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Highlights for this month include lots of useful Physical Verification System (PVS) appnotes and several blog articles on advanced analyses and flows in Analog Design Environment (ADE) GXL.Application...
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Keeping Your Circuit in Tune: Sensitivity Analysis and Circuit Optimization
Anyone who has ever played a musical instrument knows how hard it can be to keep the instrument in tune when subjected to variations in weather conditions. Heck, in 2009, Yo-Yo Ma and friends (sorry,...
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What’s New in Virtuoso ADE XL in IC616 ISR6?
In a previous post, I explained the release model used for Virtuoso ADE and ViVA and listed some of the new features that were available in Virtuoso ADE XL in 616 ISR3. Here are more new features that...
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High Yield Analysis and Optimization - How to Design the Circuit to Six Sigma
Why high yield analysis?One failed memory cell out of millions cells will cause the whole memory circuit to fail without ECC (error checking and correction) techniques. That is why memory designers...
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Virtuosity: 19 Things I Learned in April 2014 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Plenty to keep you busy this month. Lots of RAKs, videos, and new Quick Start Guides and FAQs.Application Notes1. Using Annotation Browser with Virtuoso IPVSLearn how to invoke the Annotation Browser...
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Virtuosity: 21 Things I Learned in May and June 2014 by Browsing Cadence...
Application Notes1. Setting PVS to QRC av_extracted Flow with tsmc28 (& tsmc40) LVSShows you how to put in place the PVS(LVS)-QRC(av_extracted) view using TSMC files.Videos2. Mismatch Contribution...
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EDA Plus Academia: A Perfect Game, Set and Match
Excuse the tennis analogy, but just coming out of Wimbledon! However, EDA and academia have had a long-standing tennis match, if you will, in which there is a "give and take" between the EDA world...
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Virtuosity: 20 Things I Learned in July and August 2014 by Browsing Cadence...
Apologies for skipping a month, but things got a bit hectic, so enjoy a double-dose of browsing today.Application Notes1. Cadence Online Support Release HighlightsNew features for searching and...
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Virtuosity: A Very Large Number of Things I Learned in September and October...
There has been a flurry of activity on COS over that past couple of months. I can't even come close to listing everything, but here are some of the highlights. Be sure to check out the "Training Bytes"...
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Virtuosity: 26 Things I Learned in November and December 2014 by Browsing...
Happy New Year to all from the award-winning Virtuosity blog team (Alice, Praveena, Rajesh and myself)! Okay, so it was an internal Cadence Standing Ovation Team Award, but it works for me.There are...
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Virtuosity: 13 Things I Learned in January 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online...
'Tis the end of an era, folks. It should not be a surprise, but IC 5.1.41 reached End of Support as of 12/31/2014.1. Where do I find the support lifecycle dates (e.g., End of Support) for Cadence...
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Virtuosity: 12 Things I Learned In February by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Application Notes1. Voltus-Fi Power Analysis Support and Power Grid View Generation—Voltus-Fi to Voltus FlowThe Voltus-Fi to Voltus flow provides the complete Cadence power integrity solution for...
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Virtuosity: 19 Things I Learned in March 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
1. Cadence Online Support has a sleek new design along with support for iPAD and Android tablet (7" and above). Find out what's new. (Note: Some users are experiencing display issues in Chrome...
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Virtuosity: 19 Things I Learned in April 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Application Notes1. Spectre PSPICE Netlist SupportSpectre technologyenables the user to include PCB components in PSPICE format into a Spectre integrated circuit simulation. The solution is based on...
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