Five-Minute Tutorial: Change The Background Color Of EDI
By Kari Summers
on February 8, 2012
Today's tutorial could probably be called a One-Minute Tutorial, since it's so quick. This is something that came across our internal expert alias, and I figured it's something that most people may not know about. Did you know that you can...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Multiple View-Only Windows In EDI
By Kari Summers
on January 25, 2012
Have you ever had a situation where you want to compare two (or more) different areas of a design, so you end up zooming in to one area, then to the other area, then back and forth as you look at various objects and layers, trying to recall the differences...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Avoid SI Problems With Better Pin Placement In Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI)
By Kari Summers
on January 18, 2012
I know we're over halfway through January already (where does the time go?), but Happy New Year everyone! I hope 2012 is a good one for your business and your chip designs, and let's hope the Mayans just ran out of ink when they were finishing...
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CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2012 Abstracts Due November 11th, 2011
By Robert Dwyer
on November 2, 2011
The Call for Papers for CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2012 is open now through Friday November 11th, 2012. CDNLive! is the Cadence users group conference. It provides an opportunity to present and listen to presentations from folks who use Cadence software...
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Encounter Quick Tip: Dimming the Display with F12
By Robert Dwyer
on September 30, 2011
I remember when I first started working with the Cooper & Chyan Technology (CCT) router back in the day. It had this great feature where you could darken the display for everything in the design other than what you had selected. This was particularly...
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Encounter Quick Tip: Finding Available Cell Masters with dbGet
By Robert Dwyer
on September 28, 2011
When you first start using dbGet, many of your queries branch off the "top" keyword and then traverse to "insts" or "nets". These searches return a list of all the instances or nets in the design. But sometimes it's necessary...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: The Encounter Digital Implementation Cell Viewer
By Kari Summers
on August 10, 2011
How many times have you wanted to look at a certain standard cell in the Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) system, so you go hunting around the design to find one, or use the Design Browser to find one? Then you turn off the nets and special nets...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Finding EDI Videos
By Kari Summers
on July 14, 2011
I've seen a few requests in the forums asking about EDI videos. Today I will show you how to find them on the Cadence Support website. First, go to support.cadence.com. One of the menus across the top is called "Resources". Hover your mouse...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Save Time With The Right Mouse Button
By Kari Summers
on June 27, 2011
How many times have you done this: you want to flip or rotate a cell in your design, so you select it and hit the Q key. The Attribute Editor form pops up, you choose the orientation you want in the Orientation drop-down box, then hit OK or Apply. I know...
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Filed under: Digital Implementation, encounter, EDI, five minute tutorial, 5 minute tutorial, RMB, flip cell, rotate cell, right mouse button
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Find A Pin's Transition Time
By Kari Summers
on June 16, 2011
How many times while working in Encounter Digital Implementation system have you wanted to find the transition time on a certain pin? How did you go about finding it? Here are some ways I know that I've used: If I knew the pin was failing the max_transition...
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