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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal

How to Create a Spice model of a discrete component in Cadence

Frequently we need to add an external off-chip component to integrate in a simulation in Cadence. …

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Analog, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal

Tie Cells in IC Circuits: WHY? schematic and explanations

The Tie Cells are small circuits used to connect (or tie) gates or input logic gates to vdd power or ground. …

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Cadence, Mixed Signal

How to Create a new Cell in Cadence with a Loockup Table Model in Verilog-A

Creating a Verilog model cellview in Cadence for a device using a lookup table is a quick and straightforward method to characterize any physical component.

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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal

VerilogA Code to Stop a Transient Simulation in Cadence

This auxiliary block in Cadence is a Nice to Have in your Library!

This block stops or finishes a Cadence transient simulation when an output signal reaches a desired value.
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FPGA, Mixed Signal, VHDL

Clock Generator in a FPGA: Full code

How to program an FPGA to output a square clock signal with a variable frequency and with two non-overlapping clock signals. …

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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal, Verilog

Solar Cell Verilog Model for Cadence

A model of the solar cell is built in Verilog-ams. This is needed in order to perform the simulation of the MPPT in a Solar Energy Harvester. …

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FPGA, Mixed Signal, VHDL

The fastest FPGA PWM Signal with Zybo and Vivado (VHDL)

How to generate a high-frequency PWM signal with an FPGA (Zybo) writing a custom IP in Vivado. …

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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal

How to Setup the gedit text editor as default in Cadence for Code Highligh

As a default Cadence has a non-user friendly text editor, but to code, we need to use another one like gedit. gedit is a small and lightweight text editor that allow you to highlight the text. …

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Cadence, Circuit Design, Mixed Signal

Ideal Comparator in Cadence (VHDL-AMS) for Mixed Signal

How to write an ideal comparator in Cadence with vhdlams HDL language? The comparator checks if the actual input voltage pin is above the reference voltage or not.

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