Training Byes are short technical videos, but they are designed to help you in multiple ways to understand and learn the concepts and methodologies along with demos, which will ultimately help you productively design for better power, performance, and area (PPA). This blog post will discuss the importance and benefits of Training Bytes available on the Cadence Support Portal (support.cadence.com).
Importance of Training Bytes
Cadence Training Byes are short videos with an average of three- to five-minute duration, created for the user as per the basic and advanced requirements while designing the chips for beginners and professionals. Whether you’re a student aspiring to enter the semiconductor industry or a professional looking to deepen your understanding, these Training Bytes are crafted to guide you through multiple learning videos.
The training videos are created on multiple scenarios, such as how-tos, methodologies, tooltips, tasks, and troubleshooting, and provide solutions to the various problems you face while designing the chips.
Training Byte Videos
While designing the chips using the Cadence products, you might get multiple errors and warnings that will quit your runs, so the videos/articles on the support site will provide an instant solution to understand the error and resolve it further.
- How to Rerun the Innovus Implementation System to fix all timing violations in Tempus Timing Solution?
- Demo: How to Trace Macros While Floorplanning the Design
- How to Resolve Error: DFT-404
- How to Resolve Error CDFG-210 in Genus Synthesis Solution?
- How to Run Basic Clock Tree Synthesis in Innovus Implementation System?
- Demo: Creating Placement Blockages, Halos and Routing Blockages in Innovus
Knowledge-based Training Bytes explain the definitions, technical concepts, new technology (like 3D-ICs), and techniques to improve the PPA, etc., which boost your knowledge and leverage all the features of the software to design the integrated chips.
- 3D-IC Introduction
- Comparing 2.5D-IC and 3D-IC
- Demo: Routing the Interposer Design Using the Integrity 3D-IC Layout
- Demo: Floorplanning, the Die on Interposer, Using the Integrity 3D-IC Platform
- Running Extraction, Timing Analysis, and Generating a Timing Report
- How to Identify Pins or Hierarchical Pins Located on Clock Network in Genus Synthesis Solution?
- Cadence AI ML Innovation
- How to Export a Floorplan TCL Script
Videos demonstrating how to do the tasks using the products and guiding the steps through GUI/commands to implement stages practically throughout the complete flow (such as in the RTL2GDSII Flow). By demonstrating the new features/steps of a product, they help you to know the tool better to design the chips with better PPA.
- Fixing DRV, Hold, and Setup in One Tempus ECO Session in Tempus Stylus
- How to Import Design in Innovus Implementation System?
- Demo: Initializing a Floorplan Interactively with Innovus Implementation System
- Understanding Congestion Map in Genus GUI
- Timing Debug in Genus Stylus CUI GUI
- What Is Floorplanning?
- Why 3D-IC Is Required?
Training Bytes Benefits
- Watch whenever you want and as many as you want on the Cadence Learning and Support portal
- Training Bytes are free—you need a Cadence Support account* to get started
- Numerous ways to search, including platform, products, tags, title, word search, and themed channels
- Our popular Training Webinars are also available as Training Bytes for you to revisit and share—letting you dive deeply into tools and features.
How to Access Training Bytes
To explore these training bytes more, log on to support.cadence.com and choose the learning section to select the training videos, as shown below.
*If you don’t have a Cadence Support account, go to Registration Help(opens in a new tab) or Cadence User Registration(opens in a new tab) and complete the requested information.
Want to Explore More?
The Cadence online courses also have an associated exam to certify your knowledge of the course, awarding you a digital badge for each course that you can display on various social media platforms, like LinkedIn profile, Facebook, etc.
Look at this blog to learn about the online courses: “Training Insights - Wondering How to Upgrade Your Skills? We Asked ChatGPT”
Happy learning!