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Virtuoso Video Diary: Extending Trunks for Selected Nets While Routing
You must have come across and experienced the capabilities of Pin to Trunk routing and its robust features. The Pin to Trunk routing connects an individual pin to a trunk. This routing style is usually...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the New IE-Card Based Setup in ADE Explorer
Interface Element (IE) Setup can be one of the most challenging parts in AMS Designer. If you use the traditional Connect Rule/Connect Modue Based Setup, it requires you to juggle between multiple...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing the New Search Functionality in Hierarchy...
Are you still crawling through the set of tabs, panes, or tables in the Hierarchy Editor (HED) to find the information you are looking for? That must be frustrating, isn’t it? You could try the new...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the Hierarchical Color Locking Check
As you incrementally build your design and decompose the layout geometry into masks or colors, you may want to change the color already applied to a shape or a set of shapes. At the same time, you may...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Is It That Easy to Edit in the Cadence Virtuoso...
Creating a neat and organized schematic is extremely important, and often requires a great deal of forward planning and effort. Placing, aligning, and distributing objects can be time-consuming, if...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Demystifying the Abstract
You heard it right! It’s Virtuoso Abstract Generator, the popular library modeling tool that lets you create abstracts from detailed layout information in various formats. Abstracts, when used for...
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New Virtuoso ADE Suite Wins Product of the Year
Cadence today announced that its next-generation Virtuoso® Analog Design Environment (ADE) product suite has won a Product of the Year award from Electronic Products magazine. This year marks...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Eye Masks
Have you ever plotted an eye diagram in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL and wished that you could overlay an industry standard eye mask to see if your diagram is compliant? Well, now you can!...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved...
Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM 15.1 and IC6.1.7 /ICADV12.2 releases? These forms have been significantly improved and simplified. The Direct Plot Form...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Why Should you Switch to the Expression Builder for...
Here’s how you can create expressions using the Expression Builder in 4 easy steps, and just to remind you, you won’t need to use the calculator:How many times have you opened the calculator and been...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Real-Time Tuning—A Lot More Than Just an Assistant!
Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of design variables or parameters could give you the desired simulation results? Or, have you come across situations that...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Controlling the Information Displayed on Outputs Setup...
In Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler, it’s not unusual to see a large number of records in the Outputs Setup and Results tabs. At times, the number of records is so high that it is...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Run Point Selection -WYSIWYG
With Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler, it is easy to create setups of corners, variables and parameters that are quite complex to work with. Sometimes you just want to run a few...
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Virtuosity: The Reboot
It’s been quite a while since I wrote about “Things I Learned by Browsing Cadence Online Support”. That absolutely does not mean that I haven’t learned anything recently by browsing Cadence Online...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: How Can I Plot or Evaluate with the New Expression...
Indeed, the new Expression Builder has made expression creation much easier, but are you still wishing for some more enhancements and handy features available right under it? Would it make working with...
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Virtuosity: What's New in analogLib
It's been a while since analogLib was updated, so we decided to pay some attention to some long standing and popular requests in the recent ISRs!S-Parameter File ParameterizationIn IC6.1.7 ISR6, the...
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Virtuosity: Is it Possible to Create a Bus on Several Metal Layers...
Routing Multiple Nets on Different Metal Layers to Gain ProductivityHave you ever found yourself in a situation where all the wire segments in a bus are on different metal layers? Did you ever think...
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Virtuoso Video Diary - Filtering Your Way Through Corners
Have you ever looked at the Corners Setup form and wished you had some way of finding that one corner out of the hundreds? What if you could filter for enabled corners, certain values, model files etc,...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: What is Virtuoso System Design Platform?
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”― Arthur C. Clarke, Profiles of the Future: An Inquiry Into the Limits of the PossibleVirtuoso System Design Platform (VSDP)...
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Virtuosity: I've Learned to Customize RTT Simulations...Bingo!
The Real-Time Tuning (RTT) assistant is one of the most powerful features of ADE Explorer that helps you fine-tune your design without the need to run simulations repeatedly. It is equipped with simple...
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