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Addressing MCU Mixed Signal Design Challenges

Addressing MCU Mixed Signal Design Challenges
by Daniel Payne on 04-09-2014 at 2:23 pm
Categories: Cadence, EDA

The emerging market for IoT and wearable devices are designed with mixed-signal IP that includes: embedded CPU, flash, analogue and radio.EDA and IP companies have recently worked together to allow us to design an MCU with mixed-signal IP blocks more efficiently. This morning I attended a webinar with presenters from ARMand … Read More

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ARM, Cadence and the Internet of Things

ARM, Cadence and the Internet of Things
by Paul McLellan on 03-20-2014 at 6:30 pm
Categories: Arm, Cadence, EDA, IP

There is clearly a lot of hype about the Internet of Things (IoT) right now, but also it is clear that it will be a real market. In fact, it already is with various medical, fitness and home-appliance products already available. At CES in January, wearables was probably the biggest trend. That doesn’t always pan out (3D TV was… Read More

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Cadence is all about Semiconductor IP!

Cadence is all about Semiconductor IP!
by Daniel Nenni on 03-16-2014 at 9:00 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA

Cadence continues on its quest to be a top semiconductor IP supplier which is a good thing since the semiconductor world now revolves around IP. Cadence CEO Lip-Bu Tan mentioned IP 14 times during his keynote and he was followed by the president of Imagination Technologies and the CEO of recently acquired Tensilica. I was not afforded… Read More

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Cadence and ARM BFF

Cadence and ARM BFF
by Paul McLellan on 03-13-2014 at 6:38 pm
Categories: Arm, Cadence, EDA, IP

The biggest market for semiconductors is mobile and an ARM processor is the center of the axle around which it revolves. So everyone in the mobile ecosystem needs to work closely with ARM. At CDNLive earlier this week Cadence and ARM announced that they are deepening their partnership. Most of what they announced makes it a lot easier… Read More

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Effective Verification Coverage through UVM & MDV

Effective Verification Coverage through UVM & MDV
by Pawan Fangaria on 03-10-2014 at 5:00 pm
Categories: Cadence, EDA

In the current semiconductor design landscape, the design size and complexity of SoCs has grown to large extent with stable tools and technologies that can take care of integrating several IPs together. With that mammoth growth in designs, verification flows are evolving continuously to tackle the verification challenges … Read More

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Automating PCB Timing Closure, Saving Up to 67%

Automating PCB Timing Closure, Saving Up to 67%
by Daniel Payne on 03-05-2014 at 10:10 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA

The benefits of using EDA software is that it can automate a manual process, like PCB timing closure, saving you both time and engineering effort. This point was demonstrated today as Cadenceadded new timing-closure automation to their Allegroproduct family, calling it Allegro TimingVision. On Tuesday I spoke with Hemant Shah… Read More

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SoC Functional Verification Planning and Management Goes Big

SoC Functional Verification Planning and Management Goes Big
by Daniel Payne on 02-24-2014 at 10:01 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA

Big SoC designs typically break existing EDA tools and old methodologies, which then give rise to new EDA tools and methodologies out of necessity. Such is the case with the daunting task of verification planning and management where terabytes of data have simply swamped older EDA tools, making them unpleasant and ineffective… Read More

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Designing an SoC with 16nm FinFET

Designing an SoC with 16nm FinFET
by Daniel Payne on 02-11-2014 at 9:35 pm
Categories: Cadence, EDA, Foundries, TSMC

IC designers contemplating the transition to 16nm FinFET technology for their next SoC need to be informed about design flow and IP changes, so TSMC teamed up with Cadence Design Systems today to present a webinar on that topic. I attended the webinar and will summarize my findings.

Shown below is a 3D layout concept of an ideal FinFET… Read More

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SoC Verification Closure Pushes New Paradigms

SoC Verification Closure Pushes New Paradigms
by Pawan Fangaria on 02-06-2014 at 10:00 am
Categories: Cadence, EDA

In the current decade of SoCs, semiconductor design size and complexity has grown by unprecedented scale in terms of gate density, number of IPs, memory blocks, analog and digital content and so on; and yet expected to increase further by many folds. Given that level of design, it’s imperative that SoC verification challenge has… Read More

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Cadence Acquires Forte

Cadence Acquires Forte
by Paul McLellan on 02-05-2014 at 4:46 pm
Categories: Cadence, EDA


Cadence today announced that it is acquiring Forte Design Systems. Forte was the earliest of the high-level synthesis (HLS) companies. There were earlier products. Synopsys had Behavioral Compiler and Cadence had a product whose name I forget (Visual Architect?), but both products were too early and were canceled. Cadence … Read More