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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

Corporate News

Building a Future Beyond Boundaries with Honda and Cadence

We at Cadence are proud to be a long-term partner of Honda R&D (HGRX), and our collaboration…

Corporate
• 6 min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , AI

Corporate News

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
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Academic Network

The Worldwide MEMS Design Contest Officially Starts

Cadence, X-FAB, Coventor and Reutlingen University have Selected 10 Design Teams…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , X-FAB , MEMS Design Contest , Reutlingen University , CDNLive EMEA , Mixed-Signal , Coventor

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive Silicon Valley Preview

Yes, it's that time of year again. Just like a cat has nine lives, Cadence has nine…

• 2 min read
microsoft , CDNLive , Santa Clara Convention Center , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Breakfast Bytes

Dracula, Vampire, Assura, PVS: A Brief History

Cadence was created from the merger of SDA and ECAD, as you probably know. SDA had…

• 9 min read
Extraction , Dracula , DRC , vampire , design rule check , Assura

Breakfast Bytes

Andy Bechtolsheim Keynote on the Future of Networking

At the recent Linley Cloud Hardware Conference, the keynote was given by Andy Bechtolsheim…

• 7 min read
andy bechtolsheim , arista networks , andreas bechtolsheim , linley cloud hardware conference , Linley

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Announces New 12FFC Process

Today at the TSMC Technology Symposium, Cliff Hou, TSMC's VP of R&D, is set to announce…

• 4 min read
Design IP , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , 12nm , InFO , 7nm

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 20th to 24th 2017

https://youtu.be/Qm8epP4YobA Coming from TSMC Technology Symposium, Santa Clara…

• less than a min read
Léman Micro Devices , CDNLive , SDE , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , InFO , mobile , blood pressure , system design enablement , 7nm , Smartphone

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Real-Time Tuning—A Lot More Than Just an Assistant!

Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of…

• 3 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Analog Simulation , analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Display Stream Compression: Higher Display Resolutions in…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display…

• less than a min read
mobile devices , Whiteboard Wednesdays , MIPI , MIPI protocols

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?

Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for…

• 4 min read

Digital Design

Have DRC Tools Run Out of Steam? – Part 1

In the EDA history of design rule check (DRC), there have been two distinct eras…

• 3 min read
Physical verification , DRC , design rule check

Breakfast Bytes

ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era

BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about here has been…

• 4 min read
california energy commission , energy policy , ESDA , IoT , Internet of Things , san jose city hall , cec , esd alliance

Verification

Static Members in e

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining…

• 9 min read
Specman , Incisive , e language , static , xcelium , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Reliability in Monterey: a Preview of IRPS

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability…

• 4 min read
international reliability and physics symposium , Intel , IBM , Monterey , irps , NASA , reliability

Breakfast Bytes

GF Silicon Photonics: Fiber Attach Is the Secret Sauce

A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing.…

• 5 min read
fiber attach , linley group , linley cloud hardware conference , silicon photonics , GlobalFoundries

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise…

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM…

• 4 min read
Spectre RF , noise simulation , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary

Breakfast Bytes

MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 2

This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams…

• 9 min read
softbank , veon , at&t , gsma , Mobile World Congress , ARM

SoC and IP

Memory Trends for Automotive Markets

Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with…

• 4 min read
Design IP , IP , Memory , LPDDR4 , LPDDR , DIP , memory IP , Design IP and Verification IP , memories

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Eliminate the Memory Bottleneck with Universal Flash Sto…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofir Michaeli discusses Universal Flash…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , UFS

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/ZhpHKzcdVK8 Coming from San Jose City Hall Monday: ESD…

• less than a min read
energy policy , linley group , IoT , DRC , Mobile World Congress , TSMC , linley cloud hardware conference , TSMC Technology Symposium , MWC , Internet of Things , design rule checking , optical networking , esd alliance , networking
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