Encounter How To: Writing To/Reading From a File With TCL
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Robert Dwyer
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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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User Review of The Encounter Foundation Flow
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Three Reasons to Move to EDI System 9.1
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Encounter Screencast: Editing Wires More Quickly With Bindkeys
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Sometimes It's The Little Things: Working With Square Brackets in Encounter
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Trying to Figure Out Social Media? Ron Ploof Says "Read This First"
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Encounter How-To: Selecting Objects By Pointer With dbGet And dbSelectObj
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Find, Fix And Learn With Cadence Online Support
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Encounter How-To: Write Text to The Log File With "Puts"
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Robert Dwyer
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October 30, 2009
Here's a simple but useful tip that shows how to write to the log file using the Encounter command "Puts"... In TCL, the "puts" command is use to write information to the console -or- to a file. For example: encounter 63> puts
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How To: Purge Interactive Constraints in MMMC Mode
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October 23, 2009
These tips are applicable to the Encounter Digital Implementation System . Back in the good old days, I remember asking designers at the beginning of a silicon virtual prototyping evaluation " Where is your timing constraints file? " Note the
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