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Explore Photonics and Quantum Technologies at CadenceCONNECT 2025

The intersection of photonics and quantum computing marks a pivotal moment in advancing…

Vinod Khera
• 1 min read
Quantum States , featured , cadenceconnect , photonics , Quantum Technology

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
IC 23.1 , featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , Virtuoso

SoC and IP

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

MBhatnagar
• 3 min read
ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die

Corporate News

Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC
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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 20th to 24th 2017

https://youtu.be/EVZ4T8TPim8 Coming from inside a Microsoft Hololens Monday…

• less than a min read
holoens , DesignCon , spie advanced lithography , Mobile World Congress , MWC , rocketsim , target impedance , parallel simulation

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Eye Masks

Have you ever plotted an eye diagram in Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL and…

• 4 min read
Eye Mask , Analog Design Environment , Eye , ADE GXL , ViVa-XL , ADE Explorer , Analog Simulation , ADE XL , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , ADE-GXL , Analog Design Environment , ViVA , ADE-XL , Virtuoso Video Diary

Breakfast Bytes

The Second Embedded Neural Network Symposium

A couple of weeks ago, Cadence held the second embedded neural network symposium…

• 8 min read
deep neural networks , enns , dnn , embedded neural networks , neural networks

Breakfast Bytes

Integrated Bus Routing Solution

For most chips, the automatic routing in Innovus—NanoRoute—works well. But there…

• 3 min read
integrated bus routing solution , grid-based routing , analog , Innovus , high frequency router

Breakfast Bytes

Circuits and Systems for Security and Privacy

One of the perks of writing this blog is that I get offered review copies of interesting…

• 6 min read
security , side channel attacks , encryption , puf , crc press , random number , physically unclonable functions

Breakfast Bytes

Tom Quan on TSMC's Automotive Strategy

Tom Quan recently came to Cadence to talk about TSMC's automotive strategy. Tom and…

• 4 min read
Automotive , tom quan , TSMC , 7ff , 16FFC , ISO 26262 , ADAS , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/HL0GFG9tNP4 Coming from Cadence security camera Monday…

• less than a min read
deep learning , machine learning , convolutional neural networks , moore's law , embedded neural networks , neural networks , machine vision

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Simplify UVM Scoreboarding with Cadence VIP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, principal AE Matt Diehl explains how…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , VIP , DisplayPort , Matt Diehl

Breakfast Bytes

He Who Goes First Loses, EDA Edition

Yesterday I wrote a post He Who Goes First...Loses about how being first isn't always…

• 4 min read
point tools , hunters , EDA , ambit , farmers

Breakfast Bytes

He Who Goes First...Loses

There is a saying, of course, that he who goes first wins. And sometimes, and in…

• 5 min read
apple pay , credit cards , m-pesa , tube , london tube

Breakfast Bytes

Handling Variability in the Modern Design Cycle

Igor Keller gave an internal presentation on Handling Variability in the Modern Design…

• 6 min read
on chip variation , AOCV , STA , OCV , variability , voltage droop , static timing , layout dependent effects , miller capacitance , SOCV , crosstalk , slew , SSTA

Verification

Preview of an Exciting DVCon

In the overall world of EDA, the Design Automation Conference ( DAC ) is the biggest…

• 3 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview February 6th to 10th 2017

https://youtu.be/XOS4sfILahc Coming from Design Con 2017 Monday: He Who…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Routing , TSMC , business strategy , Innovus , privacy

Verification

IEEE Std 1647™ 2016 - e Language - New Standard Publication

Congratulations to the IEEE-1647 e Functional Verification Language Working Group…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , e , e language , specman elite

Breakfast Bytes

The ASML Standard Node

One of the first posts I wrote here at Breakfast Bytes was Where Does 5 Really Mean…

• 3 min read
mmhp , cphp , standard node , EUV

Breakfast Bytes

The Book for Practicing Formal Verification Engineers

At the no-longer-so-recent Jasper User Group JUG last year, the keynote was by Erik…

• 3 min read
formal verification book , Formal verification

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of Ethernet: Not Your Grandfather's Ethernet

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, Scott Jacobson wraps up his three-part series…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , VIP , Automotive Ethernet , Ethernet

Breakfast Bytes

ENIAC, EDSAC and Colossus... and the Difference Engine

There are lots of claims to be the first computer, depending on your definition of…

• 5 min read
edsac , analytical engine , mercury delay line , difference engine , first stored program computer , eniac

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Is It That Easy to Edit in the Virtuoso Schematic Editor?

Creating a neat and organized schematic is extremely important, and often requires…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Schematic Editor , VSE L , Advanced Node , VSE XL , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design
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