Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1 San Jose Live Blog
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Robert Dwyer
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April 7, 2009
I'll be live blogging from the Cadence Campus in San Jose today. We're doing a seminar that focuses on the 8.1 release of the Encounter Digital Implementation System , and we'll be focusing on the following areas: Design Closure Mixed Signal
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Demo: Automatic Floorplan Synthesis in Encounter
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Robert Dwyer
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February 26, 2009
As an Applications Engineer, the first demonstrations you deliver of a new technology are always the most interesting. The questions you receieve are all over the map and your skills in thinking on your feet are put to the test. Personally, I really enjoy
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Programmatically Troubleshooting Timing Violations With "report_timing -collection"
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Robert Dwyer
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February 9, 2009
Has something like the following ever happened to you? You've placed and optimized a design, and you see what appears to be timing violations that could be fixed with cell changes on the worst path in the design. Like the path below that has a lot
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Demo and Interview: The Encounter Foundation Flow
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Robert Dwyer
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January 29, 2009
One of the new features I mentioned in my previous entry on 3 Reasons You'll Want to Download Encounter 8.1 is the Foundation Flow. Have a look at this screencast for a demonstration of how to take an existing design loaded in the system and quickly
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Coming This Friday January 9th: Encounter Digital Implementation Office Hours
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Robert Dwyer
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January 5, 2009
Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a restful, enjoyable and healthy holiday season. I trust that you're all going through a mountain of E-mails this morning and trying to get back into the swing of working. If it helps, give yourself permission
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Become an Encounter Digital Implementation System Specialist and Win Cool Prizes
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Robert Dwyer
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December 11, 2008
Last week, we announced the Encounter Digital Implementation System along with a cool associated campaign to raise awareness of the technological challenges addressed by this new system. Check out this video for more details: If the video fails to embed
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3 Reasons Why You Will Want to Download Encounter 8.1
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Robert Dwyer
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December 3, 2008
Today is a big day in Digital Implementation land here at Cadence. Looking around http://cadence.com you'll likely see a lot of information about the new Encounter Digital Implementation System. I wanted to highlight 3 features (out of the many new
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Demo: Using the Pin Editor in SoC-Encounter
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Robert Dwyer
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December 2, 2008
SoC-Encounter has automatic partition pin assignment capabilites. The tool also allows us to provide guidance on where partition pins should/should not be allowed to go. However, it is sometimes useful for certain pins to be placed at certain coordinates
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Coming This Friday November 14th: SoC-Encounter Office Hours
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Robert Dwyer
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November 11, 2008
I've really been enjoying the discussions in our Digital Implementation Forums . Thanks to those who have contributed questions and answers, and to you "lurkers" out there as well. I appreciate you all- this community is nothing without
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Demo: Partitioning a Design in SoC-Encounter
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Robert Dwyer
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November 6, 2008
One of the longest standing capabilities in SoC-Encounter is its ability to partition a design- the process by which a design is broken up for hierarchical implementation. I remember seeing "Big Chip? Go Hierarchical!" in marketing material
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