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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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SoC and IP

16Gbps Multi-link, Multi-protocol SerDes at the 21st IEEE European Test Symposiu…

The 21 st European Test Symposium (IEEE EST) took place in Amsterdam (Netherlands…

• 1 min read
16gbps , PCIe Gen4 , SerDes , Multi-link , multi-protocol

Academic Network

DAC 2016—Student Activities and Scholarships

The Cadence Academic Network is the proud sponsor of all student activities and scholarships…

• 2 min read
DAC , Cadence Academic Network , dac53 , Design Automation Conference , 53dac

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Tips and Tricks on Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL …

Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information…

• 6 min read
custom/analog , Analog Simulation , analog , ADE , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

DAC: the Curtain Rises on the Cadence Theater

As in previous years, a highlight of the Cadence booth at DAC is the theater, where…

• 4 min read
DAC , Cadence Academic Network , Cadence Theater , dac53 , Design Automation Conference , 53dac

SoC and IP

What Memory Best Fits Your Application?

With highly effective DDR4 and LPDDR4 class memories, it’s not always easy to know…

• 1 min read
DDR4 , LPDDR4 , 4266 , 3200

Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes: Post #150

This is the 150th blog post here at Breakfast Bytes since I arrived at Cadence in…

• 3 min read
IP , EDA , Semiconductor , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

3D Xpoint: Is It a Game-Changer?

You have probably at least heard of 3D Xpoint. This is a memory technology jointly…

• 4 min read
Intel , Memory , Micron , flash , memory hierarchy , 3dx , DRAM , Breakfast Bytes , 3d xpoint

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Latest in ADW? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements…

With the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6-2015 release, you’ll have several new…

• 2 min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Allegro Design Workbench , Library and design data management , Grzenia , Librarians , library , ADW

Breakfast Bytes

Andrew Kahng on Industry-Academia Cooperation

At CDNLive Silicon Valley, Professor Andrew Kahng of UCSD gave a presentation titled…

• 4 min read
ucsd , Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , academia , kahng , CDNLive Silicon Valley

SoC and IP

Continued Strength of the Design&Reuse IP-SoC India

Design&Reuse events are always exciting for their draw of an IP-centric audience…

• 1 min read
PCIe Gen4 , 10G-KR , SerDes

Verification

Simulation Acceleration—Maximizing Simulator Performance

"Simulation Acceleration” or “Accelerated Verification” are terms commonly used to…

• 4 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , specman elite , verification

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Creating an Acceleration-Ready Simulation Environment with…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofer Steinberg explains how accelerated…

• less than a min read
accelerated VIP , Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , VIP , Palladium XP , simulation , SystemVerilog UVM , verification

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive: Routing at 10nm

At CDNLive Silicon Valley, Geeta Garg and Chad Hale of ARM, and Ming Yue of Cadence…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , Routing , implementation , 10nm

Breakfast Bytes

What Is RocketSim? Why Did Cadence Acquire Rocketick?

I talked to Uri Tal last week, who has just joined Cadence as a result of the Rocketick…

• 3 min read
dac2016 , gate-level simulation , DAC , Functional Verification , NVIDIA , RTL simulation , Incisive , dft simulation , rocketick , rocketsim , intel capital , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Linley IoT Conference: Security and...Well, Just Security

Mike Demler gave the keynote at the Linley IoT conference a couple of weeks ago.…

• 5 min read
security , IoT , industrial , Linley , wearables , Internet of Things , power , consumer , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

It's HOT in Austin in June

Every DAC, Heart of Technology (HOT) organizes an event. This year it will be held…

• 2 min read
dac2016 , DAC , CASEA , HOT , Heart of Technology , Jim Hogan , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Party Like It's 1999—How the Denali Party Started

As everyone in EDA knows, Denali threw a party at every DAC for what seems like forever…

• 3 min read
dac2016 , DAC , Denali Party , disco inferno , Denali , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Modular VIP Architecture

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Liron Stoler describes how the Cadence…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , VIP , system-level verification , block-level verification , modular architecture

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive EMEA: Memories Are Made of This

At CDNLive in Munich, Amjad Qureshi talked about High-Speed DDR and LPDDR Memory…

• 4 min read
LPDDR , CDNLive EMEA , memory IP , DDR , memory interface IP
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