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Next Steps for the Cadence and SkyWater MPW Service

At Cadence, we are dedicated to nurturing future innovators. Our commitment to education…

Corporate
• 6 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network , SKY130

Corporate News

New Ultra-Fast Debug Solution for Palladium Emulation with Verisium Debug

Verification engineers continually report that up to 70% of the total engineering…

Corporate
• 2 min read
news story , featured , verisium , AI

Corporate News

Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum

The semiconductor industry thrives on collaboration, and few pairings exemplify this…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , OIP Partner of the Year , AI-Driven Design , TSMC

Cadence Japan

境界を越えて、未来を組み上げろ―ホンダ×ケイデンス

「AIは、物理世界にどう根付いていくのか？」をテーマに、本田技術研究所社 先進技術研究所（HGRX）との対談を通じて、AIと半導体の未来、フィジカルAIの可能性…

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , japanese blog
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's good about CheckSysConf? Plenty!

While I suspect that many of our customers have used or heard about the CheckSysConf…

• 3 min read
CheckSysConf , PCB design

Digital Design

Who Designed the iPhone?

When people ask you what you do for a living, is your response as clumsy as mine…

• 1 min read
Digital Implementation , iPhone

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Second Generation PCI Express spreading roots

According to Jag Bolaria of the Linley Group, the 5 Gbps version of PCI Express…

• less than a min read
PCB Signal and power integrity , SPB , SerDes , PCB design

Digital Design

Statistical Timing Analysis - Has its time arrived?

At 45nm chip designs, manufacturing and process control becomes increasingly difficult…

• 2 min read
Static timing analysis , STA , Digital Implementation , SSTA , corner analysis

Verification

Trip to SoCal "techtorials" on CDV

Just finished packing for a quick trip to Southern California to help kickoff a round…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV

Verification

Is anybody out there a Software Verification Engineer?

In my 2004 book, Co-Verification of Hardware and Software for ARM SoC Design , I…

• 3 min read
co-verification engineer , System Design and Verification , EDA

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Did you know? Enriched schematic content available in PDF files from DEHDL (ConceptHDL…

For years, Concept-SCALD, and ConceptHDL (DEHDL) customers have been using various…

• 1 min read

RF Engineering

Measuring Transistor ft

So let’s consider a practical example of creating test benches and performing measurements…

• 5 min read
Measuring Transistor ft , RF design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Shocking Technologies Becomes a Cadence Connections Member

In an announcement concurrent with Semicon West 2008, Shocking Technologies has …

• less than a min read
PCB Layout and routing , electrostatic discharge (ESD) dangers , Shocking Technologies , SPB , PCB design

Verification

C-to-Silicon Compiler Launch

On July 14th, Cadence introduced C-to-Silicon Compiler, a next-generation high-level…

• 1 min read
high-level synthesis adoption , C-to-Silicon Compiler

RF Engineering

Inductors On Demand, at least one RF design task can be really automated!

Inductors, transformers and transmission lines are critical components in any high…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso PCD , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design , Virtuoso Passive Component Designer , wireless integrated circuit verification

Digital Design

Customer Experiences With Low-Power Design

Hello and welcome to the new Cadence community site, and my first blog post. You…

• 4 min read
Low-Power , Logic Design , Digital Implementation , The Power Forward Initiative

Verification

Emulation Drivers - A growing set of selection criteria

Some say that the growth of the emulation market in last few years was driven by…

• 2 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Emulation , Hardware/software co-verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA?

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA? Quite a bit actually! In…

• 1 min read
ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , PCB design , Differential Pair Support

Verification

The barriers to efficient System Level Design and Verification

The EDA industry been doing system level design and verification for years; we just…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification

Verification

Verification Hierarchy of Needs

Verification consultant Brian Bailey recently started blogging for Chip Design Magazine…

• 2 min read
Verification planning and management , System Design and Verification , Run and Debug

Analog/Custom Design

Hello from the custom design corner of Cadence

Greetings! My name is Steve Lewis and I'm a product marketing director working in…

• less than a min read
Custom IC Design

Verification

The value of chaos (really!)

Ordinarily chaos is bad thing. Yet like it or not, t he world your SoC lives in is…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification

Digital Design

The Case for Robust Database Access

The most frequently viewed forum post in the old cdnusers.org "Digital IC->Floorplanning…

• 3 min read
First Encounter , Hierarchical Module Ports , robust data access , Digital Implementation , CTS
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