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Tanner EDA - Installation tutorial for Windows Local Node License (Sentinel)
This movie is only for installation of legacy Sentinel versions of Tanner tools. If you are running more recent FlexNet versions or if you received a TXT license file rather than a TLU license file,...
View ArticleLoad Calibre Menu in Virtuoso
Add one of the following lines to the default Cadence startup file (.cdsinit), depending on your installation: • Standard installation (Virtuoso 5.x and earlier) load( strcat(...
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PCB Design Perfection Starts in the CAD Library – Part 4
SOT (Small Outline Transistor) Components The SOT23 is the most popular of this component family. It has 3, 5, 6 and 8 pin variations and 3 popular pin pitches. 0.50 mm Pitch 0.65 mm Pitch 0.95 mm...
View ArticleTip of the Week: The 'tasklist' and 'findstr' DOS commands
This week we'll explore a couple of very useful commands that you can run in the DOS prompt (cmd.exe) - Tasklist This command lists all of the processes that are running in memory, similar to opening...
View ArticleADE(Analog Design Environment) display problems
Hello,I am using Virtuoso IC6.14 and MMSIM 7.1 or 10.1 version for simulation.But I found the result of the simulation was upside down(Please check the picture).I am currently using CentOS 6.4 for the...
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Metric VS: Imperial Measurement Systems
I’m curious as how do PCB designers route metric pitch BGA’s on a mil grid system or gridless (which consumes memory and CPU)? I can’t figure why anyone would use a mil grid system for any PCB CAD...
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PCB Design Perfection Starts in the CAD Library – Part 2
Chip Components Smaller Than 1608 (EIA 0603) Before you read this blog ‘Part 2″, read Part 1 White Paper of this series – “PCB Design Perfection Starts in the CAD Library” for the introduction...
View ArticleCalibre LVS extraction with multiple fingers
Hello, I am using Cadence 6.1.6 with Mentor calibre v2015 3_37.23.I have a problem when I do the LVS test: in my schematic, I instancied a nmos transistor (width = 960nm with 3 fingers of 320nm each)....
View ArticleForum Post: RE: Which virtuoso version is more recent, IC 6.1.7-64b or IC...
Hi Marben, It's not that complicated really. Every time we produce a new software release stream (e.g. IC617, IC618) we release an initial "Base" release. With the IC streams, that will have a...
View ArticleStrange Error when accessing OLB symbol library
We recenlty upgraded from 16.3 to 16.6. since then ive been experiencing the following Errors when i open the company OLB library. ERROR(ORCAP-1558): Unexpected error in database...
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