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Cadence makes some of the most incomprehensible pieces of niche software I've ever had the pleasure of encountering, so I got a bit of a grim chuckle to see a b
by a2tech 6y ago
Cadence makes some of the most incomprehensible pieces of niche software I've ever had the pleasure of encountering, so I got a bit of a grim chuckle to see a blog post from them about software complexity.
- kayson 6y agoI use Virtuoso every day and it is an abomination. The amount of time I spend having to deal with their shenanigans is mind blowing.
- a2tech 6y agoThat’s EXACTLY the animal I had in mind
- analognoise 6y agoTwo actual asic engineers, in one thread? That's practically a convention.
- qz2 6y agoThat’s quite funny. I used it nigh on 20+ years ago on sun boxes with Motif UI. Does it still suck balls after all this time?
- tonyarkles 6y agoI last used it in 2008, but at the time it was still Motif I’m pretty sure. I’m not an IC designer though; I was one of the few people around the company who was happy writing SKILL code to do integration with our product :D. Edit for people who haven’t used this stuff: SKILL is the scripting language baked into Cadence tools. It’s lispy, but also allows you to move function names out of the parens. So you can (frob) or frob()