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CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , AI-Driven Design , cadencelive , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML
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Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR27 and IC6.1.8 ISR27 Now Available

The ICADVM20.1 ISR27 and IC6.1.8 ISR27 production releases are now available for…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , cadence , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Layout EXL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , ICADVM20.1 , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Sigrity and Systems Analysis 2022.1 HF2 Release Now Available

The Sigrity and Systems Analysis (SIGRITY/SYSANLS) 2022.1 HF2 release is now available…

• 8 min read
Sigrity and Systems Analysis , Celsius Thermal Solver , Sigrity XcitePI , Sigrity PowerSI , Sigrity Broadband SPICE , Sigrity XtractIM , Sigrity PowerDC , EM , Clarity 3D Solver , T2B , Clarity 3D Workbench , JAE

Breakfast Bytes

What Does Cadence Do?

I was recently on a Zoom call about search engine optimization where we discussed…

• 5 min read
EDA , semiconductor IP

Digital Design

What's Behind the 5% Die-Area Shrink and 12% Power Saving by MediaTek?

Leveraging Cadence Cerberus AI-Enabled Chip Optimization Solution MediaTek Achieves…

• 3 min read
Intelligent chip explorer , featured , Cadence Cerebrus , Digital Implementation , AI

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Current Open Positions on the Fidelity CFD Team

Questions I get asked a lot include "Are you nuts?" and "What exactly do you do all…

• 2 min read
CFD , jobs , Computational Fluid Dynamics , product management

Cloud

Four Reasons “Cloud-First” Engineering Makes Companies More Competitive

We’re finally at the point where companies can adopt a “cloud-first” approach for…

• 2 min read
cloud , oncloud

Breakfast Bytes

CadenceLIVE: Using Helium at NVIDIA

We announced Helium in September last year, and I wrote about the product in my post…

• 2 min read
cadencelive 2022 , NVIDIA , cadencelive , helium

Computational Fluid Dynamics

High-Order Meshing on 5 Different Geometries Using Fidelity Pointwise

For the given 5 geometry configurations, with Fidelity Pointwise high-order meshing…

• 3 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , Pointwise , High order Meshing , Cadence Fidelity , engineering , simulation software , Mesh Generation

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Clarity Encrypted Connectors!

Cadence Clarity 3D Solver supports encrypted component models! Using this functionality…

• 1 min read
featured , encryption , in-design analysis , connectors , Electromagnetic analysis

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 21st August 2022

https://youtu.be/YWpcaIEkw7M Made at Lake Tahoe (camera Carey) Monday: 75 Years…

• less than a min read
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: User Interface Enhancements for Allegro Layout …

If you have seen any images or demonstrations of the 17.4-2019 release, the GUI may…

• 1 min read
digital badge , 17.4 , BoardSurfers , 17.4-2019 , Training Insights , Allegro PCB Editor , online training , Allegro

Spotlight Taiwan

2022 CadenceLIVE Taiwan 9月1日實體回歸 隆重登場

半導體產業是電子資訊產業的火車頭，與全球經濟高度連動，面臨全球景氣可能趨緩，半導體產業也將面臨成長的挑戰。EDA為研判半導體景氣的風向球，如何逆風引領全球經濟重啟…

• less than a min read
system analysis , cadencelive taiwan , taiwanese blog

Life at Cadence

Collaborating to Enable Data Centers, Automotive, Consumer, and AI/ML Technologi…

It takes the proverbial village to build complex chips and systems these days. Imagination…

• 10 min read
Automotive , GPU , data center , Edge Computing , hyperscale , ISO 26262 , graphics , consumer

Breakfast Bytes

Whatever Happened to 450mm Wafers?

When I started at VLSI Technology in the early 1980s, our fab used 5" wafers (150mm…

• 5 min read
405mm wafers , 18" wafers , g450c

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Experience the CFD Velocity Contours With Virtual Reality

Virtual reality in CFD, especially for post-processing the simulation results, can…

• 5 min read
PCB , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , inspectar , virtual reality , engineering , simulation software , augmented reality

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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre X EMIR Voltus-XFiの紹介

Spectre® 21.1 ISR8とVirtuoso® IC6.1.8 ISR26（またはICADVM 20.1 ISR26）の組み合わせから、新しいプロダクトVoltusTM…

• less than a min read
Spectre X EMIR , Voltus-Fi-XL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , japanese blog , Spectre X distributed simulation , Spectre X Simulator

Breakfast Bytes

UCIe PHY and Controller—To Die For

UCIe is the Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express, a type of die-to-die (d2d) serial…

• 3 min read
ucie , system in package , SiP , chiplet , ucie controller , ucie phy

Academic Network

Cadence Contributes to China Postgraduate IC Innovation Competition

Students are full of wisdom, energy and courage to pursue their dreams. China Postgraduate…

• 3 min read
university , students , featured , Cadence Academic Network , academia , Academic Network , university program

Breakfast Bytes

PK: A Museum for the Biggest Telecommunication Hub in the World

In 1920, the little building below was the biggest telecommunication hub in the world…

• 5 min read
telegraph , museum , telecommunications
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