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CDNLive!

CDNLive! is a global series of technical conferences where Cadence® technology users and other industry experts network and exchange ideas. At CDNLive! events, you have a unique opportunity to strengthen business relationships and discover holistic solutions to your design challenges. You'll be among the industry's brightest to share best practices, learn about the latest electronics and semiconductor design trends, and see new solutions and technology roadmaps from Cadence.

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CDNLIVE! EMEA 2008 - Call for papers now open!

28-30 April 2008
Hilton Munich Park
Munich, Germany

CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 Most Valuable Paper
“Translation of an Existing VMM-Based SystemVerilog Testbench to URM”
Kelly Larson, Verification Manager, Analog Devices Inc.
This paper describes the process of converting an existing testbench based on VMM class libraries to one based on URM class libraries.
CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 People’s Choice Papers
Digital Implementation
"The Art and Science of Pin Placement for Hierarchical Floorplanning"
Jack Benzel, ASIC Engineer, Avago Technologies
This paper first covers motivations for and the basic concepts of pin placement, as well as more advanced topics covering the breadth of the Cadence® Encounter® digital IC design platform’s capabilities and limitations.
Custom Design
“CDB to OA – The Migration Report”
Gernot Heiling, Senior Design Support Engineer, austriamicrosystems
This presentation provides an overview of the migration procedure including data validation, translation to the OpenAccess standard, and final verification of the translated data. It also provides detailed information about the challenges and pitfalls faced during migration and the in-depth cooperation with Cadence to finally end up with a qualified HIT-Kit for the Cadence® Virtuoso® custom design platform version 6.1 and OpenAccess.
"Simplifying Vertical Reuse with Specman Elite"
Mark Strickland, Technical Lead, Cisco Systems, Inc.
"Predicting Physical Design Results Using Advanced Synthesis Features"
Shahzad Chowdry, Member Technical Staff, Symmid Semiconductor Technology
“Using Spectre RF Noise-Aware PLL Methodology to Predict PLL Behavior Accurately”
Helene Thibieroz,Staff Application Engineer, Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
“Cadence Allegro Editor (v 15.7) - Allegro Top 30 - Did You Know”
Vincent Di Lello, Senior PCB Designer, Kaleidescape Canada
“Signal Integrity and PCB Layout Considerations for DDR2-800 Mb/s and DDR3 Memory Systems”
Chris Brennan, PCP Designer
Christan Tudor, Signal Integrity Engineer
Eric Schroeter, PCB/Mechanical Designer
Heike Wunschumann, PCB Layout Designer
Syed Bokhari, Lead SI & EMC Specialist
Fidus Systems, Inc.
“Using Thermal Analysis as a Tool to Aid Analog Floorplanning”
David Schwan, Senior CAD and Layout Manager, Sirenza Microdevices Inc.
CDNLive! EMEA 2007 Best Paper Features
Methods to Improve Verification Quality on the Module Level - by Markus Gross, Siemens AG
How to use SPB 15.7 to Simplify your DDR Constraints - by Mike Veal, IBM Storage
CDB to OA -- The Migration Report - by Gernot Heiling, austriamicrosystems
CDNLive! - ON LOCATION at Silicon Valley


Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007
A very successful CDNLive! Silicon Valley recently concluded in San Jose, California. Part of a series of global conferences, this event brought together over 800 Cadence technology users from 16 countries and 183 companies to share ideas, tackle complex issues, and meet Cadence experts. In this podcast we hear the challenges designers are facing as they move to advanced process nodes and the solutions Cadence announced at CDNLive! under the WYDIWYG (What You Design Is What You Get) moniker.


Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Bob Naber about 65/45nm DFM

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Vinod Kariat about Analysis and Signoff for Digital Implementation

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Ankur Gupta about Low Power

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 Designer Expo Video Blog

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Vassilios Gerousis about Advanced node (65/45nm) model-based flow

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Paul Musto and Josh Moore about PCB design (constraint-driven flow)

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 Panel: Organizing Chaos in the 65/45nm Era

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 Technology Night Video Blog

Video - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2007 interview with Mike Stellfox about Advanced Verification
CDNLive! - ON LOCATION Around the World

Video PodCast - CDNLive! EMEA 2007 conference highlights

Video PodCast - CDNLive! EMEA 2007 interview with Mike Fister, President and CEO of Cadence Design Systems

Photos - CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2006 Conference Highlights
CADENCE NEWS
GUC to Leverage CPF-Based Low Power Solutions to Accelerate Development of Consumer Products
New Aspect-Oriented Generation Engine and Advanced Transaction-Based Acceleration; Supports Open Verification Methodology for SystemVerilog C
Performance and Productivity Features of Latest Virtuoso Platform Now Supported by UMC's 65nm FDKs
CPF-based Integrated Flow Enables G2 Microsystems to Deliver Ultra Low-Power Wi-Fi SoC
Multi-Year Partnership to Provide Holistic Design Solutions to Drive Innovation and Shorten Product Time to Market for NXP
Anchor Bay Adopts Cadence Incisive Xtreme III System for Verification of HDTV and Digital Video Products
NEC Electronics America Uses Cadence Encounter for High-performance, Low-power ARM11 Processor
What You Design Should Be What You Get, Says EDA Leader Cadence
Cadence Accelerates Time-to-Volume for Advanced ICs with Model-Based, Variation-Aware Design Technologies; Provides 'WYDIWYG' Capability
The "New Kit from Cadence Cuts Risk and Time for Adopting Functional Verification Methodology
Cadence Extends DAM Solution with Acquisition of Design-side Litho and Variability Leader Clear Shape Technologies
Cadence and Mentor Graphics Deliver Interoperability with Open SystemVerilog Verification Methodology
Siemens IT Solutions and Services Adopts Cadence's Assertion-Based VIP to Speed Developement
Cadence Strengthens DFM Core Technology and Solutions Through Acquisition of Invarium
Jazz Semiconductor Teams with Cadence on Support for Cadence Rf and AMS Design Kits
Toumaz Technology Achieves First Silicon Success with Cadence Virtuoso Multi-Mode Simulation
Attendance up 35 Percent at Cadence CDNLive! User Conference Held in Munich, Germany
Cadence Accelerates 45-nm Design with TSMC Reference Flow 8.0
Cadence Improves Logic Designer Productivity through Enhanced Design-with-Verification Flow
Cadence Speeds RF PCB Design Cycle with New Allegro PCB Technology
Cadence Introduces Industry's First Complete Custom IC Simulation and Verification Solution
Cadence Revolutionizes Productivity for Next-Generation PCB Design with New Allegro Platform
Cadence Speeds Adoption of Wireless and Consumer Low-Power Designs with Low-Power Methodology Kit
WEB EXCLUSIVE CONTENT
It's Time To Lift The Burden From Logic Designers
These are not easy times for logic designers. As geometries shrink and chips grow ever larger and more complex, more and more design decisions are being pushed up to the RTL stage. When these decisions are made incorrectly, the result is long iterative loops between back-end processes and RTL, leading to unpredictable tape-out dates.
STARC Adopts Cell Characterization For SSTA Flow
The Japanese Semiconductor Technology Academic Research Center (STARC) has adopted Altos Design Automation’s cell characterization technology as the basis for its statistical static-timing analysis (SSTA) design flow. The STARC adoption of the Altos technology comes on the heels of the Silicon Integration Initiative’s (Si2’s) adoption of the same technology as the basis for its Open Modeling Coalition (OMC) SSTA flow. Si2 has proposed the latter for broad EDA industry adoption.
FROM ELECTRONIC DESIGN MAGAZINE
Productivity Gains Eliminate Verification Bottlenecks
It's now the rule rather than the exception: Logic designers must accept responsibility for verification. But time is short, so it behooves EDA vendors to enhance verification productivity. In the latest improvements to its Logic Design Team (LDT) portfolio of verification tools, Cadence addresses three key bottlenecks that hamper productivity (...
Focus On Power-Efficient Design To Help Stop Global Warming
This year's One Powerful Issue takes on special significance given the widespread worries about global warming. With last month's unsettling report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, energy efficiency is now sizzling on everybody's front burner. Instead of cleaning up wasted energy via ever more elaborate cooling schemes, engineers are now thinking about power efficiency as one of the first tenets of good design. Power efficiency was one of the central themes...
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