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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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Virtuosity: 14 Things I Learned in May 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Support
Cadence Documentation1. Cadence Documentation SurveyCadence is committed to providing high-quality documentation. To help us shape the future of Cadence documentation delivery, we welcome you to...
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Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Help Us to Help You
There is a team at Cadence working on developing the next generation of Cadence documentation and Help interface. After rolling your eyes at this statement, I'd really like you to take 10 minutes to...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in August and September 2015 by Browsing Cadence...
Cadence Online Support FeaturesSetting the Release Preferences for your search results: The documents in the search results page often support multiple releases. You now have the option to set...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in June and July 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online...
Cadence Online SupportRelease Highlights July 2015Some nice enhancements to the COS experience. Ability to set preferred release for searching, better interface for navigating search results in product...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in October, November, and December 2015 by...
I won't even attempt to number the items this time, and I'll have to skip the individual bits of troubleshooting information (note to self: don't wait three months between blog posts). There has been a...
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Welcome to TeamADE
Welcome to the new home of all things related to the Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment. Our intention is to use this space to give you helpful tips on using the tools and to introduce you to newly...
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Welcome to the New Sound of Analog Design
The new Virtuoso® ADE product suite enables designers to fully explore, analyze, and verify their design against design goals so that they can maintain design intent throughout the design cycle. As the...
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Analog Design Resonance: Getting Started with Virtuoso ADE Explorer and...
By now, you have probably heard about the new family of Virtuoso ADE tools, publicly introduced at CDNLive Silicon Valley. If not, go take a look!The new tools work with a new database and viewname...
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Virtuosity: Things I Learned in January, February, and March 2016 by Browsing...
At CDNLive Silicon Valley this month, Cadence announced a new family of ADE tools: Virtuoso ADE Explorer, Assembler, Verifier and VVO (Virtuoso Variation Option). So I'd like to start with a special...
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