Cadence TechTalk: Passive Component Synthesis and Optimization for IC Designs

Cadence TechTalk: Passive Component Synthesis and Optimization for IC Designs
by Admin on 04-24-2023 at 3:20 pm

Date: Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Time: 10:00am – 11:00am (PDT)

Join us at this webinar to learn more about the Cadence® EMX® Designer, our newly introduced passive component synthesis and optimization solution. In split seconds, the EMX Designer generates very flexible DRC-clean parametric cells of passive devices, such … Read More


Clarity 3D Transient Solver Speeds Up EMI/EMC Certification

Clarity 3D Transient Solver Speeds Up EMI/EMC Certification
by Tom Simon on 10-25-2020 at 8:00 am

Clarity 3D Transient Solver

Cadence made waves a while back with its innovative Clarity 3D Solver, a FEM solver for near field EM analysis. Now they are shaking things up with their new far field Clarity 3D Transient Solver. System level EMI and EMC analysis has often exceeded the limits of simulation tools, leading to expensive and time-consuming prototype… Read More


Free Webinar: Silvaco 3D Solver Based Extraction for Device and Circuit Designers

Free Webinar: Silvaco 3D Solver Based Extraction for Device and Circuit Designers
by Tom Simon on 03-20-2018 at 12:00 pm

Designers spend a lot of time looking at their layouts in 2D. This is done naturally because viewing in 2D is faster and simpler than in 3D. It helps that humans are good at extrapolating from 2D to 3D. Analysis software, such as extraction software also spend a lot of time looking at layouts in 2D. While this is fine for approximate results,… Read More


Calibre xACT Shakes Up 16nm and Below Extraction Game

Calibre xACT Shakes Up 16nm and Below Extraction Game
by Tom Simon on 05-09-2015 at 8:00 am

Mentor Graphics made a big announcement regarding SOC extraction at their User2User conference in San Jose during April. Before I get to the meat of the announcement, I’d like to reflect back on the early days of Calibre-DRC at Mentor. I was in Sales at Mentor around 1999, and Calibre-DRC was the new kid on the block. We had to go convince… Read More


A New Hierarchical 3D Field Solver

A New Hierarchical 3D Field Solver
by Daniel Payne on 05-19-2011 at 2:04 pm

Introduction
3D field solvers produce the most accurate netlists of RC values of your IC layout that can then be used in SPICE circuit simulators however most of these solvers produce a flat netlist which tends to simulate rather slowly. Thankfully several years ago the first hierarchical SPICE tools were offered by Nassda (HSIMRead More