Moore no More
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Christopher Clee
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April 10, 2009
"The number of watchmen required to watch the watchmen watching the watchmen tends to double every 18 months". This gem is Alan Moore's law, posted years ago by some wag in response to an Intel article on geek.com . This has, of course,
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Assura Foundry Support
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Christopher Clee
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March 23, 2009
I've been blogging a lot about Assura recently, so I thought I would continue by talking about rule decks. Inside Cadence, we maintain a database that shows which foundries support which process for which products. This means that we can quickly give
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Assura On Steroids
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Christopher Clee
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March 17, 2009
In a recent post , I hinted at a significant performance improvement in Assura . Our R&D team focused on performance improvements in the 3.2 release, which was shipped last August. Based on our suite of performance benchmarks, we achieved an overall
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ERC in Assura II
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Christopher Clee
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March 10, 2009
In my last post I talked about the layout, schematic and netlist ERC capabilities of Assura. "But", I hear you ask, "is it programmable?" One of the characteristics that makes Assura such a natural fit within the Virtuoso custom design
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ERC in Assura
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Christopher Clee
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March 5, 2009
A few customers have recently asked whether we can provide schematic-based ERC checks. This is no doubt spurred by a recent product announcement by one of our competitors. No - I'm not going to say who, and I'm not going to provide a link to their
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Big Bang
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Christopher Clee
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March 2, 2009
When something big and expensive fails, we usually hear about it in the headlines. Recent examples include the launch failure of the Orbiting Carbon Observatory and the setback at CERN , apparently caused by a dry solder joint, that resulted in a 12-month
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All For One
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Christopher Clee
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February 23, 2009
Finally, sanity. Concerned about the level of electronic waste created by discarded phone chargers, the European Commission has told mobile phone manufacturers that they must adopt a standard . This will hopefully have the additional advantage of reducing
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Coffee, Anyone?
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Christopher Clee
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January 13, 2009
How little the world changes. Back in the days of 68000-based workstations, we would open up a design and retreat to the break room for a coffee while it loaded. Now, in the gigabyte / multicore era, we open up a design and retreat to the break room for
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Do foundries care about yield?
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Christopher Clee
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August 5, 2008
I was talking recently with a fabless semiconductor company whose designers were confused about their foundry's strategy for design-for-yield. They asked me whether they should follow the foundry's guidelines on yield, or formulate their own yield
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Allow myself...
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Christopher Clee
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July 11, 2008
In the words of Austin Powers, "Allow myself to..." - well you get the idea. I'm Chris, and I am a Senior Product Marketing Manager for a number of Cadence physical verification, yield analysis and mask design products. I have about 20 years
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