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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

ISVLSI 2016: Advanced-Node Custom Layout Symposium Keynote

I had an exciting week in July here in Pittsburgh, PA with the IEEE Computer Society…

• 2 min read
ISVLSI , VLSI , Cadence Academic Network , academia , Virtuoso , advanced node layout

Breakfast Bytes

Provisioning Devices Securely

Asaf Ashkenazi of Cryptography Research (now part of Rambus) talked about provisioning…

• 3 min read
provisioning , security , cryptography research , IoT , wearables , linley mobile , Internet of Things , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Who Put the Silicon in Silicon Valley?

I think the person who has the strongest claim to putting the silicon in Silicon…

• 5 min read
marc andreessen , William Shockley , Silicon Valley , Breakfast Bytes

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Ford: Multidisciplinary Design Optimization of a Turbocharger Compressor

Ford chooses Fidelity Optimization to increase the performance of turbocharger compressors…

• 4 min read
CFD , Automotive , automotive engineering , turbomachinery , Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , Fidelity CFD , CFD Applications , Turbo

Breakfast Bytes

What’s for Breakfast? Preview August 29th to September 2nd (video)

https://youtu.be/X-hVSQfbtFE

• less than a min read
self-heading , Apple , risc-v , Audi , CDNLive , autonomous driving , MIPI , isa , cdnlive boston , Soundwire , aging , FinFET , ADAS , piloted driving , Krste Asanović , instruction set architecture

Verification

Coverage Maximization

Searching for “automatic coverage maximization” results with ~16 million hits. Alas…

• 4 min read
Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , e language , Funcional Verification , team specman , specman elite , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Wearables: Growing at 38% CAGR?

At what has now become the Linley Mobile and Wearables Conference, Linley pointed…

• 3 min read
smartwatch , quaqlcomm , Linley , wearables , smart watch , mobile

SoC and IP

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond

MIPI DevCon 2016 – Mobile and Beyond The word “beyond” may bring up thoughts of…

• 6 min read
MIPI Alliance , ADAS

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Radar Signal Processing Optimized for the Tensilica Fusion…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Pushkar Patwardhan discusses the advantages…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , radar signal processing , Tensilica

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive India Keynote

The keynote at CDNLive Bengaluru was given by Michal Siwiński. Since day 1 of CDNLive…

• 2 min read
CDNLive India , SDE , system design enablement , Breakfast Bytes

SoC and IP

Less is More With MIPI I3C

There is little doubt that Internet of Things has become the next big thing in business…

• 1 min read
peripherals , IoT , MIPI , i2c , sensors , hdr , I3C , sensewire , hub

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON Best of the West: Coventor

SEMICON West runs a sort of award program called Best of the West. Companies submit…

• 3 min read
semicon west , semi , Coventor , semulator3d , best of the west

Breakfast Bytes

Perspec Modeling

The post A Perspective on Perspec earlier this week introduced the idea of Perspec…

• 3 min read
Perspec , perspec system verifier , UML , system verilog

Analog/Custom Design

High-Sigma Showdown: Which Method is Better?

The adoption and usage of advanced node technology (16nm and below) has been extraordinary…

• 3 min read
variation tsmc hsmc sss sampling high sigma

Breakfast Bytes

What's for Breakfast? August 22nd

http://youtu.be/ZkZQAW6Gl7M Monday: At SEMICON West the winner of the "Best of…

• less than a min read
provisioning , security , Intel , CDNLive India , linley group , shockley , wearables , Qualcomm , Fairchild , a16z , cdnlive bengaluru , Coventor , mobile , Silicon Valley

Breakfast Bytes

Palladium and Protium Platforms, the Hardware Twins

The Palladium Z1 is an enterprise-level emulation system. If you don't already know…

• 4 min read
palladium z1 , Protium , Palladium , Emulation , FPGA prototyping

Breakfast Bytes

Omnia Simulation in Tres Partes Divisa Est

"Omnia Gallia in tres partes divisa est" were the opening words to Julius Caesar…

• 3 min read
verilog-xl , Verilog , rocketick , rocketsim , simulation

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Tensilica Fusion G3 DSP Features and Benefits

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Paul Garden provides more details on…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Tensilica , Tensilica Fusion G3

Verification

10 New Protocols to Design and Integrate Your SoC in Record Time

This month we released 10 new Verification IP for leading-edge protocols! Did I say…

• 1 min read
SPI NAND , Verification IP , VIP , MIPI , DisplayPort , USB , DSI , octal spi , Ethernet , Tensilica , design , Type-C , and Verification IP , USB UFS
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