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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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MIPI SoundWire

The MIPI Alliance exists to standardize widely used interfaces in mobile, such as…

• 3 min read
USB Type-C , MIPI SoundWire , MIPI , lightning , Soundwire , RealTek

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing WSP Manager

Are you an advanced node layout or CAD engineer trying to find a methodology for…

• 2 min read
Routing , WSP , Rapid Adoption Kit , Advanced Node , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Application-Optimized DDR PHYs

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Kishore Kasamsetty takes a closer look…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , memory subsystems , memory IP , DDR IP , DDR PHY

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Sneak Peek: Discussion Topics for Signal and Power Integrity Expert Panel at CDNLive…

Who? Istvan Novak - senior principal engineer at Oracle Kevin Roselle -…

• 2 min read
Power Integrity , cdnlive boston , Signal Integrity , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Aging and Self-Heating in FinFETs

At CDNLive in India, Cadence's Hany Elhak discussed aging and self-heating, and how…

• 3 min read
failure , CDNLive India , Spectre , self-heating , aging , FinFET

SoC and IP

HoloLens Is at the Tip of the Tensilica Iceberg, With Processors That Scale to Any…

Microsoft provided details of their HoloLens HPU at HotChips this week, revealing…

• less than a min read
IP , controller , Tensilica , augmented reality

Breakfast Bytes

Piloted Driving: Audi's View

I hope it isn't a surprise to anyone reading this blog that the share of a vehicle…

• 3 min read
Automotive , Audi , automotive electronics , imec , itf brussels , itf

Breakfast Bytes

A Raven Has Landed: RISC-V and Chisel

In Game of Thrones, ravens are George RR Martin's way of getting information around…

• 4 min read
risc-v , riscv , chisel , raven , UC Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

ISVLSI 2016: Advanced-Node Custom Layout Symposium Keynote

I had an exciting week in July here in Pittsburgh, PA with the IEEE Computer Society…

• 2 min read
ISVLSI , VLSI , Cadence Academic Network , academia , Virtuoso , advanced node layout

Breakfast Bytes

Provisioning Devices Securely

Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning…

• 3 min read
provisioning , security , cryptography research , IoT , wearables , linley mobile , Internet of Things , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley?

I think the person who has the strongest claim to putting the silicon in Silicon…

• 5 min read
marc andreessen , William Shockley , Silicon Valley , Breakfast Bytes

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Ford: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Turbocharger Compressor

Ford chooses Fidelity Optimization to increase the performance of turbocharger compressors…

• 4 min read
CFD , Automotive , automotive engineering , turbomachinery , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , Turbo

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview August 29th to September 2nd (video)

https://youtu.be/X-hVSQfbtFE

• less than a min read
self-heading , Apple , risc-v , Audi , CDNLive , autonomous driving , MIPI , isa , cdnlive boston , Soundwire , aging , FinFET , ADAS , piloted driving , Krste Asanović , instruction set architecture

Verification

Coverage Maximization

Searching for “automatic coverage maximization” results with ~16 million hits. Alas…

• 4 min read
Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , specman elite , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Wearables: Growing at 38% CAGR?

At what has now become the Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference, Linley pointed…

• 3 min read
smartwatch , quaqlcomm , Linley , wearables , smart watch , mobile

SoC and IP

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond The word “beyond” may bring up thoughts of…

• 6 min read
MIPI Alliance , ADAS

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Radar Signal Processing Optimized for the Tensilica Fusion…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Pushkar Patwardhan discusses the advantages…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , radar signal processing , Tensilica

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive India Keynote

The keynote at CDNLive Bengaluru was given by Michal Siwiński. Since day 1 of CDNLive…

• 2 min read
CDNLive India , SDE , system design enablement , Breakfast Bytes

SoC and IP

Less is More With MIPI I3C

There is little doubt that Internet of Things has become the next big thing in business…

• 1 min read
peripherals , IoT , MIPI , i2c , sensors , hdr , I3C , sensewire , hub
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