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The Art of Analog Design Part 6: Response to Frank’s Question to Part 4
In the comments to blog #4, Frank Wiedmann asked about the correlation between the results of mismatch from Monte Carlo analysis and DC mismatch analysis. It is a fair question and here is a short blog...
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Virtuosity: Read Mode Done Right
Because of the ease with which you can set up complex sweep, corner and Monte Carlo simulations, the Virtuoso ADE tools are frequently used to perform verification and regression simulation runs. Those...
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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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Art of Analog Design Part 7: Mismatch Tuning
In days of future past, we looked at DC mismatch analysis and compared it to Monte Carlo analysis for analyzing the effect of device mismatch on the offset voltage of a differential amplifier. We found...
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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: 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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Art of Analog Design Part 7: Mismatch Tuning
In days of future past, we looked at DC mismatch analysis and compared it to Monte Carlo analysis for analyzing the effect of device mismatch on the offset voltage of a differential amplifier. We found...
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Virtuosity: All New XStream In - The Translation Expressway
A layout design has to go through several iterations and multiple data exchanges across tools for different types of processing during the designing process. At each stage, a large-sized, hierarchical...
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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: 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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Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 Now Available
The IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 production releases are now available for download. To find out more, click here…(read more)
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Virtuosity: What if I Want to Disable the Filtered Corners?
You'll now be an expert at using the Corner Filters in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and Virtuoso ADE Explorer, I'm sure. But so far, you could only enable the corners you found during filtering. Now, we can...
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Virtuoso Video Diary: Reusing Variables through CSV Export and Import
Do you have some specific variables in a test and wonder if you could have a way to reuse them globally for all tests or locally in a particular test? You will be glad to know that Virtuoso ADE...
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