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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option? It's NEW in the 16.6…

Wow! There is an extremely powerful option available for PCB designers in the 16…

• 2 min read
PCB Layout and routing , manufacturing option , Allegro 16.6 , 16.6 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

How to Do Body Bias with GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX and Innovus Implementation System

Last week Cadence put out a press release that the Cadence implementation flow had…

• 5 min read
ARM Techcon , 22fdx , body bias , implementation , GlobalFoundries , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Basic Principles of Deep Learning

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the basic principles…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , deep learning , Tensilica , data analysis , data extraction , pattern recognition

Breakfast Bytes

The Paradox of Open Source

Open source software is software where the source code is fairly freely available…

• 6 min read
closed source , free software , hadoop , android , MontaVista , embedded software , open source , software , free software foundation , linux

Breakfast Bytes

Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack

If you put together your dream emulation system, it would have: Infinite throughput…

• 4 min read
virtualization , Enterprise , palladium z1 , Palladium , Emulation , simulation

Breakfast Bytes

I Danced with a Nun in a Disco…and the micro:bit

How's that for a click-bait title? But it's true. Back in 1969, the British government…

• 3 min read
BBC , microsoft , Acorn Computer , micro:bit , Open University , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Ethernet: Coming Soon to a Car Near You

Ethernet was invented at the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) by…

• 5 min read
Automotive , can bus , MOST , ethernet phy , Ethernet , canbus , flexray

Breakfast Bytes

ARM's Mike Muller Announces a New Core, a New Instruction Set, and Security Laye…

Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, delivered a little history and a lot of security. Oh, and…

• 4 min read
security , ARM v8 , ARM Techcon , arm cortex-a35 , armv8-M , IoT , Muller , Internet of Things , ARM , Techcon

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - High-Speed QSPI Interface Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lou Ternullo explains the challenges…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , QSPI interface , high-speed QSPI

Verification

Is There Market Appetite for PCIe 4.0? A View from Tokyo and Taipei

Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan…

• 3 min read
PCIe Gen4 , VIP , PCIe , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the DEHDL Variant Editor? The Secret's in the 16.6 Release!

The 16.6–2015 (also known as 16.6 QIR#9) Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains…

• 9 min read
Cadence Design Systems , 16.6 , SPB , Design Entry HDL , Grzenia

Breakfast Bytes

How Did 3 Engineers Tape Out an ARM IoT Product in 3 Months?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hottest buzzword (buzzphrase?) in electronics…

• 4 min read
IoT , Internet of Things , ARM , reference platform

Life at Cadence

Cadence Is One of FORTUNE's Top 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity!

• less than a min read
World's Best , inclusion , Culture , cadence , GPTW , diversity , Fortune 100 best companies to work for , great place to work , best workplace for diversity

Life at Cadence

The Secrets to Building an Inclusive Culture

Many people ask me how Cadence has more than quadrupled its market cap over the last…

• 3 min read
World's Best , Insights on Culture , inclusion , Culture , cadence , Fortune , GPTW , diversity , great place to work , best workplace for diversity

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence Tool Suite Qualified for 22FDX Reference Flow

Let's pull a paragraph out of the joint Cadence/GF press release from earlier today…

• 4 min read
forward body bias , ARM Techcon , Global Foundries , expert bar , Tempus , 22fdx , 28nm , 20nm , arm cortex , rbb , reverse body bias , gf , Voltus , Innovus , FinFET , arm cortex-a17 , GlobalFoundries , ARM , quantus qrx , fbb , Techcon , FD-SOI

Breakfast Bytes

Where Does 5 Really Mean 30? Process Node Naming

In my first real blog here, about the Cadence/imec 5nm announcement, I asked what…

• 3 min read
Intel , process node , Samsung , TSMC , 5nm , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , 10nm , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

How Did Cadence Get to Be Good in Analog?

We recently held the annual Mixed Signal Technology Summit. I blogged about it and…

• 4 min read
cadence , diva , composer , analog , Virtuoso , analog mixed signal , OpenAccess

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Automotive Functional Safety and Reliability Requirements

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Charles Qi talks about automotive functional…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , functional safety , software , reliability

Breakfast Bytes

This Year's Phil Kaufman Award Recipient: Wally Rhines

This year's Phil Kaufman award recipient is Wally Rhines. I already knew the big…

• 4 min read
DSP , ti320 , Wally Rhines , walden rhines , Mentor Graphics , Kaufman Award , Texas Instruments , Breakfast Bytes , phil kaufman award , Mentor
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