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CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela Samuel
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , AI-Driven Design , cadencelive , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML
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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Rewind and Replay the Top 10 Cadence Virtuosity and Virtuoso Video Diary…

With new content being posted nearly every week under Custom IC Design Blogs, there…

• 3 min read
Analog Design Environment , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Space-based Router , MODGEN , Auto Place and Route , System Design Platform , APR , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , simulation , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , MTS

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell：Virtuoso射频解决方案——流程一体化的技术改革

我刚刚从马萨诸塞州的波士顿，这个极具革命盛名的地方回到家，在那我参加了2019国际微波大会（IMS 2019）。今年峰会很精彩，不仅因为波士顿风景迷人，更因为这里是…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , VRF , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , virtuoso system design platform , Virtuoso , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Which Passwords Should You Change?

I was talking to someone who consults to Cadence on various aspects of security.…

• 9 min read
security , tfa , password , two-factor authentication

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 17th May 2020

https://youtu.be/We9eDDOn-Cg Made in "Instanbul" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Why…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

极致PCB设计全流程 I 技巧三：规则管理器应用技巧

本期技巧篇内容与大家分享规则管理器（Allegro® Constraint Manager，简称CM）中输入数据的几个细节操作以及“信号不允许表层布线”的规则设置…

• less than a min read
设计经验 , Chinese blog , 软件技巧 , training , webinar , PCB设计 , 中文 , 直播网课 , online training , Allegro , 专家培训

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

极致PCB设计全流程 I 基础三：有效进行规则设置

规则驱动设计理念：通过正确抽象、完整设置的规则，为PCB设计质量保驾护航。 设计过程中，保证设计者的行为正确是至关重要的，如果规则出现问题，那么过程执行得再好都无济于事…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , 经验分享 , training , webinar , PCB设计 , 中文 , 直播网课 , online training , Allegro , 专家培训

Life at Cadence

My Life at Cadence Video Series: Sneharsi Nag

Cadence recently interviewed five of our amazing women engineers for a new video…

• less than a min read
Insights on Culture , inclusion , Culture , STEM , cadence , my life at cadence , women , engineering

Digital Design

SSV 20.1 Base Release Now Available

The SSV 20.1 production release is now available for download.

• 3 min read
Vector Profiler , Signoff ECO , Tempus , Tempus PI , integrated signoff , Power Integrity , Voltus , Voltus-XP

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Three Steps to Using Embedded Components

If you think embedding components in a PCB just reduces product size, well that's…

• 4 min read
embedded components , Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica HiFi DSPs with Dolby Atmos for Soundbars

Do you know what a soundbar is? Years ago, if you wanted to build a good home theater…

• 4 min read
HiFi , Tensilica

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Reuse to Recharacterize - Improve Productivity…

A write up on how Liberate MX effectively enables you to characterize only the failed…

• 3 min read
memory characterization , incremental run , timing validation , Liberate MX , Digital Implementation , interpolation error , library validation , Rapid Adoption Kits , RAKs

Verification

Catching up with Higher Ethernet Speed: VIP Supports 802.3ck

Draft 1.0 of 802.3ck, also known as 100G per lane, was finally published by IEEE…

• 2 min read
802.3ck , Ethernet VIP , baseR , VIP , 100Gbps , 100G backplane , CGPL

Verification

Sizing Up eUSB2 Verification

USB is one of the most widely used interfaces in the PC market for more than 20 years…

• 2 min read
VIP , USB-IF , eUSB , USB 2.0 , eUSB2

Verification

Why Is the Evolving HBM3 Such a Revolutionary Technology and How Can You Be Ready…

Since 2013, we have seen the HBM specifications being released by JEDEC and companies…

• 3 min read
Verification IP , Memory , VIP , JEDEC , HBM , storage , Design IP and Verification IP , verification

Breakfast Bytes

3G and 4G: The Internet Arrives

In posts over the last couple of weeks, I covered 1G and 2G mobile: 1G Mobile:…

• 7 min read
3g , 5G , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

John Park's Webinar on Chiplets

Recently Cadence's John Park presented a webinar on Design Methodologies for Next…

• 6 min read
SiP , featured , advanced packaging , 3DIC , OrbitIO , intelligent system design

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 production releases are now available for…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , IC Release Blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

New PCIe SI Challenges Conquered Using Clarity 3D Field Solver for PCB

Figure 1: High-performance PCIe-based graphics card There is a trend in the data…

• 10 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , bit-error-rate , PCIe , Signal Integrity , serial link , SerDes , Channel simulation , Sigrity , Clarity 3D Solver , PCI-SIG , clarity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: The Choice Between Static and Dynamic Shapes

That title might be a touch misleading. We’re not here to talk about why to convert…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor
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