Signoff-Driven Implementation = Consistent and Convergent = Predictable and Efficient
By Michael Jacobs
on March 10, 2010
Digital designs are reaching 10's of millions of instances, which makes efficiency of the overall digital implementation and signoff flow critical to ensure predictability in the design schedule. A major stumbling block that can be a real threat to...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, Signoff Analysis, static timing analysis, Early Rail Analysis, dynamic rail analysis, power analysis, SI analysis, signal integrity, noise analysis, timing system, Multi-Core and Parallel rocessing, timing convergence, Timing Constraints, Timing analysis, Extraction, OCV, Statistical, signoff
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Encounter How To: Writing To/Reading From a File With TCL
By Robert Dwyer
on February 24, 2010
A couple weeks ago, there was a good thread in the Digital Implementation Forums about managing buffering on nets between IOs and registers. The post touched on a number of interesting topics, but one of the fundamental building blocks I'd like to...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, TCL, scripting, EDI system, Encounter digital Implementation system, Foundation Flow Design, Closure
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User Review of The Encounter Foundation Flow
By Robert Dwyer
on February 22, 2010
This is a guest post from John McGehee. John is an independent consultant in Silicon Valley, specializing in EDA application development and design. He blogs about these topics at voom.net . Prior to starting his consulting career, John was an AE at Avanti...
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Filed under: scripting, Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1, Foundation Flow, Encounter Digital Implementation System 9.1
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Three Reasons to Move to EDI System 9.1
By Robert Dwyer
on February 1, 2010
We recently announced the 9.1 version of the Encounter Digital Implementation System. Head over to http://downloads.cadence.com , select your platform and choose EDI91. Notice that in our download system, we’re calling it EDI as opposed to the former...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, Encounter Digital Implementation System 9.1, EDI system Encounter Digital Implementation System, Foundation Flow Design Closure
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Encounter Screencast: Editing Wires More Quickly With Bindkeys
By Robert Dwyer
on January 21, 2010
The Encounter Digital Implementation System offers interactive wire editing capabilities via the Wire Editor. This is one part of the tool that becomes much easier to use with the help of a few bindkeys. In particular, I find the "Shift-S" bindkey...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, Encounter digital Implementation system, Wire Editor, Bindkeys
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Sometimes It's The Little Things: Working With Square Brackets in Encounter
By Robert Dwyer
on January 15, 2010
Good news! A long-standing source of irritation for Encounter users has been addressed in our 8.1.USR1 release. You might not have noticed it if you've grown accustomed to backslash-escaping square brackets in object names. For example: selectNet...
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Filed under: Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1, Ease of Use
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Design Signoff Begins In Implementation
By Peter McCrorie
on January 6, 2010
As an ex-design engineer now working in EDA, I am often privileged to see advanced design methodologies from many of my customers. I would like to reflect on the recent trends that I am seeing around signoff analysis for digital ASIC designs. For the...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, Signoff Analysis, cadence, blog, Encounter Timing System, static timing analysis, "SoC-Encounter", Early Rail Analysis, Cadence Encounter Power System, dynamic rail analysis, tapeout, signal integrity, SI, crosstalk, design closure, CeltIC, encounter power system, EPS, ETS, EDI system, Encounter digital Implementation system, timing convergence
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Trying to Figure Out Social Media? Ron Ploof Says "Read This First"
By Robert Dwyer
on January 5, 2010
Left to Right: Ron Ploof, Bob Dwyer Photo Credit: brillianthue "As a New Media evangelist...I've been able to categorize those reactions into three different personality types: The 'Get-Its,' the 'Traditionals,' and my favorite...
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Filed under: New Media, EDA, Ron Ploof, Social Media, Facebook Twitter
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Encounter How-To: Selecting Objects By Pointer With dbGet And dbSelectObj
By Robert Dwyer
on December 16, 2009
I just got back from a trip to California where I met with a couple of customers and presented database access with dbGet in the Encounter Digital Implementation System (EDI for short). I took notes on the questions that came up- in particular those common...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, dbGet, database access, Encounter Digital Implementation
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Find, Fix And Learn With Cadence Online Support
By Robert Dwyer
on November 5, 2009
We recently rolled out a new online support mechanism that replaces Sourcelink called Cadence Online Support . Point your web browser to sourcelink.cadence.com and you'll notice that it redirects to support.cadence.com . Improving the search capabilities...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, Sourcelink, Cadence Online Support
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