CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2012 Abstracts Due November 11th, 2011
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Robert Dwyer
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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
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Robert Dwyer
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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
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Robert Dwyer
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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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Tab Completion with Encounter's dbGet Command: Smarter Than You Might Think
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Robert Dwyer
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May 19, 2011
If there's one thing that makes navigating a UNIX command line or tool console more efficient, it's tab completion. We've been improving Encounter's support for tab completion over the past few releases, and in 10.1 Encounter's dbGet
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Encounter Quick Tip: How to Repair Command Line Navigation When Launching via bsub
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Robert Dwyer
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April 12, 2011
When two users report the same issue in the same week I'm glad I can share the problem and solution via this blog. I know a lot of you work in an environment where you request computing resources via "bsub." In many cases it's frowned
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Encounter Puzzler #3 Solution: Renaming a Net Logically
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Robert Dwyer
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March 9, 2011
Once again, the Encounter Digital Implementation designer community has stepped up to the challenge. Last week's puzzler -- renaming a net logically in Encounter -- was solved in short order. Let's add J2mh and Sims to the list of Encounter Wizards
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Encounter Puzzler #3: Renaming a Net Logically
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Robert Dwyer
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February 28, 2011
The other day a designer E-mailed me: How can we rename a net in Encounter? I followed up to clarify whether the designer wanted to change the net associated with routed wire segments, or wanted to rename a signal net. He clarified that he wanted to change
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Guest User Blog: dbShape For All Your Logical Operation Needs
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Robert Dwyer
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February 16, 2011
This is a guest post from Jason Gentry at Avago. I hope you enjoy this useful piece he's contributed on using the Encounter Digital Implementation System's dbShape command that debuted in 10.1. I figured it was time for another guest blog, especially
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Advanced Maneuvers in Feedthrough Insertion: Maximizing Routability while Minimizing Port Creation
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Robert Dwyer
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January 10, 2011
Previously I wrote about the basics of feedthrough insertion in Encounter . Today I'd like to push into a tiny but powerful example of how Encounter's feedthrough insertion solution can derive solutions that enable rapid top-level design closure
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Planning for Hierarchical Design Success: Do You Have a Robust Feedthrough Insertion Solution?
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Robert Dwyer
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December 27, 2010
Feedthrough insertion is a subtly crucial task that naturally arises in hierarchical digital design. There are several types of approaches we can use to allow signals to traverse across a chip, but the most common and effective I've seen is where
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