Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Rapid Adoption Kits
By Stacy Whiteman
on May 22, 2012
This post isn't directly about tips and tricks for getting the most out of Virtuoso, but it is about a new source of information and hands-on guidance to help you put those tips and tricks into action. They're called Rapid Adoption Kits, or--to...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, workshop, Constraint-driven, Connectivity-driven, Virtuoso Layout Suite XL, analog, Virtuoso IC6.1.5, Viva, Rapid Adoption Kit, RAKs
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Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Change is Here to Stay
By Stacy Whiteman
on April 5, 2012
Speaking of variation -- and isn't everyone these days -- something strikes me in reading about all the powerful and elegant features of corners management and statistical analysis. After all the simulations are run and the results are presented,...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, IC 6.1.4, Virtuoso Analog Design Environment, IC 6.1, analog, ADE, ADE-XL, Analog simulation, ADE-GXL, IC 6.1.5, Virtuoso IC6.1.5, custom/analog, Analog Design Environment, Analog Design Environment, IC615, Variability Aware Design, variability, change, variation
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SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 5
By Jim Newton
on February 10, 2012
In the previous SKILL for the Skilled postings, we looked at a pretty good algorithm for solving the Sudoku puzzle. This algorithm is able to find at least one solution of the puzzle if one exists, and is able to detect that no solution exists if that...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, SKILL, Team SKILL, programming, LISP, SKILL++, object orientation, Sudoku
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Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Measurements Across Corners
By Stacy Whiteman
on February 9, 2012
In Virtuoso IC 6.1.5 ISR6, we released a new feature in ADE XL, which had been requested by many customers--the ability to define a measurement expression which operates on the results of another measurement expression across corners. For example, I can...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, Virtuoso Analog Design Environment, IC 6.1, ADE-XL, IC 6.1.5, Virtuoso IC6.1.5, custom/analog, Corners analysis, Analog Design Environment, IC615, corners
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Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: We've Got You Cornered
By Stacy Whiteman
on January 26, 2012
One of the big buzzwords around the EDA world these days is "variation." Don't you just love buzzwords? Take a perfectly normal, slightly ambiguous word, capitalize it, add a another slightly ambiguous hyphenated suffix, and suddenly you've...
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Improved IDF Tool Automatically Fixes Design Rule Violations in Virtuoso
By Hiroshi Ishikawa
on December 13, 2011
Although many automatic layout generation tools are available to automate design creation, the layout modification/correction step (fixing design rule violations) is not automated very well. Consequently, design modification including error correction...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, analog, IC 6.1.5, error correction, IC layout, IC615, design rule violations, layout correction, interactive design fixing, layout optimization, IDF
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Cadence is the OpenText Connectivity Partner of the Year
By Steven Lewis
on November 28, 2011
Cadence is pleased to be honored by the OpenText Global Partners Program as their 2011 Connectivity Partner of the Year. The award is a reflection of the close working relationship that we have had with OpenText over the past several years, providing...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, analog, OpenText, Exceed on Demand, ExceedOn Demand, connectivity partner, remote access, Open Text
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SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 4
By Jim Newton
on November 14, 2011
In several previous postings we introduced the problem of solving the sudoku puzzle. In Part 1 , we saw the rules of sudoku and a brief introduction to the SKILL++ Object System. In Part 2 , we started solving the problem top-down by implementing the...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, SKILL, Team SKILL, programming, LISP, SKILL++, object orientation, Sudoku
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A Moment to Mourn -- John McCarthy, Father of Lisp
By Jim Newton
on October 31, 2011
Here lies a Lisper Uninterned from this mortal package Yet not gc'd While we retain pointers to his memory [Author unknown] Last week (October 23rd, 2011 or 24th depending on which source you read) we lost Dr. John McCarthy, one of the great contributors...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, SKILL, LISP, John McCarthy, McCarthy, software development
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SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 3
By Jim Newton
on October 17, 2011
In the previous posting Introduction to Classes -- Part 2 we saw the high level function for initializing, solving, and displaying the sudoku puzzle. (defun SkuSolve (partial_solution) (let ((sudoku (SkuInitialize (SkuNew) partial_solution))) (printf...
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Filed under: Custom IC Design, Virtuoso, SKILL, Team SKILL, programming, LISP, SKILL++, IC 6.1.5, object orientation, classes, Sudoku
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