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Five-Minute Tutorial: Understanding the Encounter Power System (EPS) Reports...
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...
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Adding Custom Shapes and Text is New and Improved in EDI System 11
You may have noticed that in the Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 11 the commands addCustomBox, addCustomLine and addCustomText are no longer in the documentation. These previous commands...
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Writing More Compact Encounter Scripts with dbGet Expressions
Querying the Encounter database with dbGet is typically pretty concise to begin with. But you might not be aware of its support for expression-based matching, which enables even more compact scripting....
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EDI System’s get_metric Command Makes Metrics Reporting Quick and Easy
In this blog post I want to highlight the command get_metric that was introduced in Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System 10.1 and enhanced further in version 11. Have you ever tried writing a...
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Improve Your Productivity With Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) for Encounter...
As you know, Cadence Online Support is your 24/7 site for getting help and resolving issues related to Cadence software. If you are signed up for e-mail notifications, you've noticed new solutions,...
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Capturing and Processing Encounter Console Output with "redirect"
In my last post I wrote about writing more compact db access scripts with dbGet's expression-based matching. We found all of the high fanout nets in the design which weren't clock nets:dbGet [dbGet...
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10 Encounter Tips and Tricks You May Not Be Aware Of
In looking over the shoulders of Encounter users over the years I've found there's a bunch of little tips and tricks I use to make interacting with the tool a little easier that aren't necessarily...
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How To: Bring Up Encounter "man" Pages from a UNIX Prompt
Okay, this one is too cool not to share. The other day a customer and I were trying to understand a tool behavior better so we did what we all do in desperate times: We read the documentation. As...
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In Case You Missed It – The Most Popular EDI System Knowledge Content...
I mentioned in my first blog one of my roles in customer support is to identify and author knowledge content for Cadence Online Support (http://support.cadence.com). In this blog post I want to...
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Simple Steps to Debug DRC Violations Undetected in EDI System
You've placed and routed your design in the Encounter Digital Implementation (EDI) System. It passed Verify Geometry and Verify Connectivity without a violation. Great!But when you run DRC signoff with...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Why You Should Be Running Early DRC
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...
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Transitioning Your LEF-Based EDI System Design Flow to OpenAccess
The trend of combining analog and digital circuits on a single chip has been growing for several years. More recently I'm seeing more and more designers improve their productivity by transitioning...
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The Case for the Tiny Testcase
I often joke with customers that, although I realize they have to work on large designs, I do my best work on designs with just 2 or 3 instances. That's because I'm often trying to replicate an issue...
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SPICE Correlation Made Easy by Encounter Timing System (ETS)
Hello, and welcome to my first blog! As an application engineer in customer support, I have received quite a few queries on how to do SPICE correlation of timing numbers. This blog is intended to help...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Creating An EM Model File
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...
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Quick Reference - 8 Ways to Optimize Power Using Encounter Digital...
Everyone knows that the increasing speed and complexity of today's designs implies a significant increase in power consumption, which demands better optimization of your design for power. I am sure lot...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Create Encounter Power System (EPS) Power-Grid Views...
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,...
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CDNLive High-Performance Track: Do You Have What it Takes to Get Your...
Implementing SoCs with embedded processors at advanced nodes has become increasingly difficult. This is due to the complexity of the design functionality as well as the low power and increased...
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Five-Minute Tutorial: Set Flip-Chip Bumps as Voltage Sources in EPS/EDI Rail...
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...
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Answers to Top 10 Questions on Performing ECOs in EDI System
Applying ECOs to a design can be complex, stressful and error prone so it's important to apply the right tools and flow to implement the changes successfully. EDI System provides multiple ECO flows to...
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