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Knowledge Booster Training Bytes –Layout Environment and Basic Commands Training

17 Apr 2024 • 4 minute read

   

Virtuoso Layout Suite

As the full custom IC layout suite of the industry-leading Cadence Virtuoso Studio, the Virtuoso Layout Suite supports custom analog, digital, RF, and mixed-signal designs at the device, cell, block, and chip levels.

The Virtuoso Layout Suite is the trusted centerpiece for the custom layout creation. It has evolved over more than three decades, solving design challenges as electronic system complexities increased, championing new features, flows, and methodologies to tackle the intricacies introduced with each process technology. It accelerates custom layout with a comprehensive set of user-configurable, easy-to-use pure polygon layout features within a fully hierarchical environment.

The Virtuoso Layout Suite family of products comprises the layout environment of the industry-standard Virtuoso Studio custom design platform.

The Virtuoso Layout Suite XL sets the new standard for custom layout authoring to handle the increased complexity of modern designs. Driven by schematic connectivity and design intents, an LVS-correct layout can be done in real-time.

In this Knowledge Booster blog, let’s talk about and explore how to do layout design tasks using the Virtuoso Studio Design Environment features. The blog:

  • Introduces the training materials and videos that can help you understand and use this feature.
  • Shows how to earn a digital badge by passing an exam for the course.

The Virtuoso Layout Suite features and commands help you customize your working environment to improve the user experience when creating a layout. You can take advantage of the new user interface features to accelerate your custom IC layout implementation.

What’s Next?

As the saying goes, watching this in action might help more than reading about it, so check out our Training Bytes video channel that offers many helpful videos on environment, features, and commands in Virtuoso Studio Layout Suite.

All the related videos are linked together in a channel to let you easily access and watch as many videos as you like.

  • On the Cadence Learning and Support portal (login required), you can take the free Virtuoso Layout Pro: T1 Environment and Basic Commands online course.
  • This course includes videos such as:

Environment Features and Commands in Virtuoso Layout

View the training bytes video on the Cadence Learning and Support portal.

Environment and Basic Commands in Virtuoso Layout Suite

CIW, Library Manager, Classic & Basic Design Windows, and Navigator Changes

  • You can earn a Digital Badge by passing an exam for the course.

Information and FAQs

To find information on how to get an account on the Cadence Learning and Support portal, see the Support page.

To stay up-to-date with the latest news and information about Cadence training and webinars, subscribe to the Cadence Training emails.

If you have questions about courses, schedules, online, public, or live onsite training, reach out to us at Cadence Training.

Related Resources

 Online Courses Online Courses

Virtuoso® Layout Onboarding

Virtuoso Layout Pro: T6 Constraint-Driven Flow and Power Routing

Virtuoso Layout Pro: T7 Module Generator and Floorplanner

Virtuoso Layout Pro: T8 Virtuoso Concurrent Layout Editing

Virtuoso Layout Pro: T9 Virtuoso Design Planner

 Blogs Blogs

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes - Enhance Layout Productivity with Virtuoso CLE

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes — Virtuoso CLE Webinar Recording Available

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes — Virtuoso Layout Pro Webinar Recording Available

 Rapid Adoption Kit Rapid Adoption Kit

Virtuoso Concurrent Layout Editing

 User Guide User Guide

Virtuoso Studio Design Environment User Guide

Contact Us

For any questions, general feedback, or even if you want to suggest a future blog topic, write to custom_ic_blogs@cadence.com.

About Knowledge Booster Training Bytes

Knowledge Booster Training Bytes is an online journal that relays information about Cadence Training videos, online courses, and upcoming webinars that are available in the Learning section of the Cadence Learning and Support portal. This blog category brings you direct links to these videos, courses, and other related material on a regular basis. Subscribe to receive email notifications about our latest Custom IC Design blog posts.

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On behalf of the Cadence Training team


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