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Virtuosity: Organizing Waveform Families
When plotting waveforms in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis across sweeps you might want to group plots with the same values together, or display each corner in the same color etc. Of course, you...
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Virtuosity: Using the Expression Builder to Plot across All Corners and Points
The Expression Builder has simplified writing complex expressions and has the ability to plot or evaluate particular points and corners. But we wanted it to do more, recently we added the ability to...
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Virtuosity: CDNLive India—Our Window to KYC!
In line with the recently-implemented mandate in India requiring banks and financial institutions to regularly run “Know Your Customer (KYC)” cycles, CDNLive India has become a reliable event for the...
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Virtuosity: Can I Plot Signals with Different Axis Units in the Same Window?
Have you been frustrated trying to drag signals around in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis only to see this icon telling you that you can't drag the signal there? You can right-click on the axis...
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Virtuosity: SKILLful ViVA – The Champion of Graph Analysis
If you’re a SKILL enthusiast, you’ll be happy to know that the latest IC6.1.7 ISR release offers some very useful and handy SKILL functions to perform certain tasks in ViVA. You may find them useful...
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Virtuosity: Can I Graphically Edit Width Spacing Patterns?
We have enhanced the editing modes available for WSPs. In addition to the text-based editing, you can now graphically edit WSPs in the preview mode.(read more)
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Virtuosity: From Hatchlings to Fledglings to a Flock of Birds Blogging Together
“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith, for to have faith is to have wings.” ― J.M. Barrie, The Little White Bird When a few of us in the Cadence CAS Technical...
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Virtuosity and Virtuoso Video Diary: Onwards and Upwards
Looking back at 2017, I note with satisfaction that it was a phenomenal year of blogging that saw us achieving tons more than we’d dreamed of. Our twin series of blog posts—Virtuosity and the Virtuoso...
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Virtuosity:Expression Builder - Now Plots ALL!
The Expression Builder has simplified writing complex expressions and has the ability to plot or evaluate particular points and corners. But we wanted it to do more, recently we added the ability to...
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Virtuosity: Sharing Custom SKILL Calculator Functions
Have you ever written a fantastic piece of SKILL to carry out a calculation and wanted to tell the world about it? Or maybe you really need a calculator function to perform a calculation but Cadence...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Stranded Wire – A New Sapling in Interactive Routing
In order to drive high current and to minimize routing resistivity, it is desirable to draw wide wires. But, in mature nodes, maximum width or maximum density constraints on some metal layers prevent...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Self-Paced Learning through Training Bytes
Cadence Education Services offers several online training courses and training bytes addressing specific features of Virtuoso products. This blog gives you a brief overview about how to find them and...
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Virtuosity: New Eye Diagram Measurements
The Eye Diagram assistant in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis allows you to create eye diagrams, add masks and also calculate some standard measurements. The measurements have recently been enhanced...
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Virtuosity: Do I Need To Run a Simulation To Plot From a Text File?
You'll be glad to hear the answer is No! In Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis, we have a Calculator function available called getAsciiWave, which will create a plot from your text file without the...
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Virtuosity: Signal Browsing Gets Easier with Advanced Search Options
Imagine what would happen if we were living in the world with no search engines. Wouldn’t we find ourselves lost in the deep information ocean, struggling to find the relevant stuff? The situation...
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Dealing with AOCVs in SRAMs
Systems on Chip, or SoCs as they’re more commonly called, have become increasingly more complex, and incorporate a dizzying array of functionality to keep up with the evolving trends of technology....
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Virtuosity: Organizing Waveform Families
When plotting waveforms in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis across sweeps you might want to group plots with the same values together, or display each corner in the same color etc. Of course, you...
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Virtuosity: CDNLive India—Our Window to KYC!
In line with the recently-implemented mandate in India requiring banks and financial institutions to regularly run “Know Your Customer (KYC)” cycles, CDNLive India has become a reliable event for the...
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Virtuosity: Can I Plot Signals with Different Axis Units in the Same Window?
Have you been frustrated trying to drag signals around in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis only to see this icon telling you that you can't drag the signal there? You can right-click on the axis...
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Virtuosity: Can I Graphically Edit Width Spacing Patterns?
We have enhanced the editing modes available for WSPs. In addition to the text-based editing, you can now graphically edit WSPs in the preview mode.(read more)
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