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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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IEDM: Coventor Panel on BEOL Challenges

At the recent IEDM in San Francisco, Coventor organized a panel titled BEOL Barricades…

• 6 min read
tokyo electron , cobalt , copper , Samsung , Lam Research , Coventor , GlobalFoundries , beol , umc , rubidium , Breakfast Bytes , liner

Verification

Bugs, Problems, Issues, and Features

There’s no better way to demonstrate the value of a verification tool than to find…

• 3 min read
performance , uvm , pswg , Functional Verification , Perspec , OVM , issue , bug , feature , Accellera , Problem , portable stimulus

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Dolby Atmos and Tensilica

Dolby Laboratories was founded by Ray Dolby. I always thought he was English, but…

• 3 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , audio dsp , atmos , HiFi , Dolby , Tensilica , television , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Active Safety Features

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last in a three-part series on automotive…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , functional safety , Active Safety , automotive electronics , Charles Qi

Breakfast Bytes

Alexa: Is VUI the New GUI?

Just before the holidays I gave in and purchased an Amazon Echo, the small hockey…

• 4 min read
alexa , echo dot , voice , Siri , Amazon , Breakfast Bytes , echo

Breakfast Bytes

Pat Pistilli: the First Cell Library, the First DRC File, the First Computer-Printed…

You probably know that DAC is run by a company called MP Associates. It was started…

• 6 min read
DAC , cell library , drc file , wire-wrap , pat pistil , Bell Labs , label , avery , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 2nd to 6th 2017

https://youtu.be/bGsKR-RG0fY Coming from Mission San Juan Bautista, California…

• less than a min read
DAC , alexa , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Perspec , EDA , vui , cdnlive boston , pat pistilli , Tensilica , Coventor , Amazon , mediatek , Design Automation Conference , beol , IEDM

Verification

Report From the 17th MTV Workshop in Austin

Austin is always a nice place to visit, and last week I spent a few days there to…

• 3 min read
security , Perspec , Safety , formal , workshop , SoC , Test , ISO 26262 , MTV , power , microprocessor , portable stimulus , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

OnDemand links to our Allegro PCB & PSpice 2016 Webinars and looking to 2017...

As we wrap up 2016, I wanted to share the quick access links to all of our OnDemand…

• 2 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Silicon Photonics

You probably already know that much of the traffic inside the data center, and indeed…

• 9 min read
mach zehnder interferometer , waveguide , fiber optic , ring coupler , light , silicon photonics , mode , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What’s Good About Allegro PCB Editor New Concurrent Team Design? New Capabilities…

The 17.2 Allegro PCB Editor has new concurrent team design capabilities. For details…

• 3 min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Allegro 17.2 , Allegro GUI , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Branko's Elephant Chart

There are several areas where semiconductor technology and society come together…

• 5 min read
branko's elephant chart , world bank , global income distribution , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Functional Safety and the ISO 26262 Standard

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Charles…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , functional safety , automotive electronics , Charles Qi , ISO 26262

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Design Level Checks! (Reason 9 of 10)

The Allegro PCB 17.2-2016 release is loaded with enhancements related to the DRILL…

• 2 min read
Allegro 17.2 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing the New Search Functionality in Hierarchy Edit…

Are you still crawling through the set of tabs, panes, or tables in the Hierarchy…

• 2 min read
Search , HED , Virtuoso Video Diary , hierarchy editor

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V: Codasip, BaySand, and More

Recently the RISC-V Fifth Workshop took place at Google in Mountain View. As always…

• 3 min read
UltraSoC , risc-v , codasip , BaySand , Codeplay , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Lip-Bu Tan Receives the Exemplary Leadership Award from GSA

Last week, Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO of Cadence, received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary…

• 5 min read
gas , cadence , fsa , fabless , TSMC , Lip-Bu Tan , morris change exemplary leadership award , Morris Chang , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

Meet the BarCamp Concept!

BarCamp was inspired by an invitation-only participant-driven conference, named Foo…

• 2 min read
virtual platforms , Cadence Academic Network , BarCamp , Formal AMS Verification , System-level Sensitivity Analysis , edaBarCamp , Highly distributed embedded platforms

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IEDM: 7nm from TSMC and IBM/GLOBALFOUNDRIES/Samsung

At IEDM last week, there were papers in eight parallel tracks for three days. At…

• 3 min read
IBM , Samsung , TSMC , 193i , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes
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