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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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Portable Stimulus Standard

There is an Accellera working group that is developing a portable stimulus standard…

• 7 min read
54dac , DVcon , Accellera , pss , Breakfast Bytes , portable stimulus standard

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IEDM in December—7nm Announcements

Soon it is the International Electron Devices Meeting. It takes place in San Francisco…

• 4 min read
extreme ultra violet , iedm 2016 , IBM , Samsung , TSMC , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , IEDM

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 28th to December 2nd

https://youtu.be/CUGTiPJQjuI Monday: My preview of IEDM which includes 7nm…

• less than a min read
risc-v , IBM , 7 nanometer , Perspec , Protium , Samsung , TSMC , gf , risc-v workshop , iOS , FPGA prototyping , femto-satellite , GlobalFoundries , pss , internet of space , IEDM , portable stimulus standard

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Happy Thanksgiving. Do You Have Toenailitis?

It’s Thanksgiving! Happy Thanksgiving if you are reading this on the day. Cadence…

• 3 min read
bayes' theorem , physicians' knowledge of statistics , statistical literacy , false positive , false negative , turkey , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: ADE Explorer Setup - Save Now and Reuse Later!

Have you ever come across a situation where you have a test setup in ADE Explorer…

• 3 min read
Explorer , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso Video Diary , mixed signal

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Learning Advanced Flex and Rigid-Flex Design Support in Allegro 17.2-2016

Allegro PCB Editor now offers Rigid-Flex applications where it’s common to have different…

• 2 min read
Cadence Design Systems , PCB Editor , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Future of EDA: The Q & A

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. The panelists…

• 4 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

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Future of EDA: Industry...Well, Cadence...Weighs In

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. If you didn…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

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The Future of EDA: The View from Academia

There was a recent panel discussion at Cadence on the future of EDA. Of course the…

• 6 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Stanford , future of eda , Berkeley , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

A Personal History of Functional Verification

In my most recent blog post , I summarized some of the key points from an October…

• 4 min read
ASIC , uvm , pswg , formal. Verisity , Functional Verification , System Design and Verification , OVM , System Development Suite , constrained-random , Simulation acceleration , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Virtual Platforms , Hardware/software co-verification , simulation , FPGA , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Via Structures - The Next Generation High Speed…

Via transitions are very common for signals. And in high speed frequencies, these…

• 2 min read
diff pairs , Signal Intregrity , High Speed , PCB design , differential pairs , SI analysis and modeling , Differential Pair Support , Why Move Up to 17.2

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RISC-V 5th Workshop Preview

The 5th RISC-V workshop is coming up on November 29 and 30 on the Google Quad campus…

• 3 min read
risc-v , risc-v foundation , google , risc-v workshop , Breakfast Bytes

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 21st to 25th

https://youtu.be/dHvlzjjH9SA Monday: The Academic Panel: the Academics Go First…

• less than a min read
Alberto , thanksgiving , Cadence Academic Network , academia , Stanford , cal , industry , UC Berkeley

Breakfast Bytes

JasperGold: Thoroughbred Performance

At the largest gathering of formal verification (FV) engineers in the world, also…

• 6 min read
JUG , formal , Visualize , Jasper , jaspergold apps , JasperGold , Breakfast Bytes , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why SerDes Signaling Is Trending Towards PAM Encoded Signals

What’s the difference between NRZ, PAM-3 and PAM-4? Here are three graphs that clearly…

• 2 min read
Serial link analysis , PAM-4 , Sigrity , PAM-3

Breakfast Bytes

Jürgen Went From Mobile to Automotive—What Did He Find?

After ARM on the first day, the keynote on the second day of DVCon was by NXP. For…

• 8 min read
Automotive , NXP , DVcon , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , verification

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - MIPI Alliance Interfaces

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Moshik Rubin takes a closer look at the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , MIPI , MIPI protocols , DSI , CSI2

Breakfast Bytes

What Is the ARM ARM?

The first ARM is the ARM we all know, Advanced RISC Machines (the A originally stood…

• 5 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , Jasper , ARM , JasperGold , arm arm , Breakfast Bytes , Formal verification

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Red Hat's Mr. ARM Talks Open Source

Jon Masters is in an odd position—he is the chief ARM architect at Red Hat. Since…

• 8 min read
open source hardware , arm servers , red hat , open source software , open source , jon masters , linux , Breakfast Bytes
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