Five-Minute Tutorial: Set Flip-Chip Bumps as Voltage Sources in EPS/EDI Rail Analysis
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Kari Summers
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March 26, 2013
When running power and rail analysis for a flip chip, we used to have to spend some time creating the voltage sources. It wasn't too terrible; usually we would output the bumps into a Cadence Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) .io file, then use
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Create Encounter Power System (EPS) Power-Grid Views For Standard Cells
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Kari Summers
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February 22, 2013
In today's tutorial, I'm giving you a sample EPS (Encounter Power System) script that you can use to generate power-grid views for your standard cells. Power-grid views are used during rail analysis, with IR-Drop and EM (electromigration/current
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Creating An EM Model File
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Kari Summers
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January 14, 2013
One of the least-fun parts of running power and rail analysis has always been coming up with the electromigration (EM) model file. In the past, this involved cracking open the process design rule manual, finding the appropriate equations, and creating
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Why You Should Be Running Early DRC
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Kari Summers
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October 11, 2012
Everyone knows you have to run signoff DRC before you tape out a design. Sometimes, DRC is left to exactly that moment - right before the tapeout. If major problems are found in the design at that point, the tapeout either has to be delayed, or there
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Understanding the Encounter Power System (EPS) Reports Directory
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Kari Summers
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May 1, 2012
No matter how you run your power analysis - with Encounter Power System (EPS) or from within Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System - you're probably familiar with the result directory. It will look something like VDD_125C_avg_1 and have lots
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Selective Blockage In EDI 11
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Kari Summers
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March 12, 2012
Today I'd like to highlight one of the new features in Encounter Digital Implementation System (EDI) 11: selective blockage. Everyone has used placement blockages before; most of us have used soft blockages also. (As a quick review, a soft blockage
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Where To Find More Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System Tutorials
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Kari Summers
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March 5, 2012
We've had some people joining the forum lately that are either brand-new to Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) system, or are coming back to it after several years away. I thought it would be a good time to highlight some great tutorials for getting
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Default Naming Conventions in Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI)
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Kari Summers
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February 27, 2012
This is a topic that frequently comes up on both internal and external forums. And the answer is right in the Encounter Digital Implementation System (EDI) User Guide, but unless you already know that, you may not think to look for it there. At some point
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Change The Background Color Of EDI
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Kari Summers
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February 8, 2012
Today's tutorial could probably be called a One-Minute Tutorial, since it's so quick. This is something that came across our internal expert alias, and I figured it's something that most people may not know about. Did you know that you can
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Multiple View-Only Windows In EDI
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Kari Summers
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January 25, 2012
Have you ever had a situation where you want to compare two (or more) different areas of a design, so you end up zooming in to one area, then to the other area, then back and forth as you look at various objects and layers, trying to recall the differences
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