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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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TSMC: Technology Update

Twice a year TSMC has a big meeting in San Jose. These are the times that there is…

• 7 min read
OIP , 3D packagin , HPC28 , CoWoS , IoT , 28nm , 20nm , 40ULP , fabless , TSMC , ULP , process roadmap , 55ULP , 16ff , 16nm , InFO , 16FFC , n7 , FinFET , n10 , 7nm , 10nm , foundry

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Enhanced Backdrill Capability (Reason 4 of…

Adventures in Backdrilling For the past 15 years or so, routing high-speed interfaces…

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

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System Design Enablement with Cadence and TSMC

System-on-chip (SoC) designers are always optimizing what has become known as PPA…

• 3 min read
Low Power , bvp.system-ppa , virtual platform , TSMC , Tensilica , power , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Back in the Saddle Again

Nearly five years ago, I signed off with my last blog post in the Cadence Community…

• 3 min read
pswg , Perspec , System Design and Verification , System simulation and analysis , Accellera , portable stimulus , System Design and Verification , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Mellanox: Using Palladium ICA Mode

At CDNLive Israel, Yaron Netanel of Mellanox talked about his experience with Palladium…

• 3 min read
Yaron Netanel , CDNLive , debug , mellanox , Palladium , in-circuit acceleration , ICA , cdnlive israel , Breakfast Bytes

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What’s for Breakfast? Preview September 26th to 30th (video)

https://youtu.be/1le_bd4o01Q Monday: System Design Enablement with Cadence and…

• less than a min read
OIP , Memory , MemCon , LPDDR , liinley , SDE , TSMC , antiportfolio , DDR , system design enablement , bessemer ventures , power , microprocessor

Breakfast Bytes

How to Connect Sensors with I3C

A couple of sessions at MIPI DevCon last week were on I3C. This is a new generation…

• 6 min read
MIPI , i2c , sensors , mobile , I3C

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: SKILL IDE Performance Analysis Tools

As a SKILL code developer, do you spend a major chunk of your time in fine-tuning…

• 2 min read
Team SKILL , programming , Virtuoso Video Diary , software development , SKILL IDE , Custom IC Design , SKILL++ , Virtuoso Layout Suite , SKILL

Breakfast Bytes

שלום from CDNLive Israel

Shalom. Today is CDNLive Israel in Tel Aviv. At least getting here from San Francisco…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , Lip-Bu Tan , cdnlive israel , perlmutter

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of the PCIe Standard

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lana Chan explores the history of PCI…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PCIe , PCI Express

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MIPI: Not Just Mobile Any More

On September 14 and 15, MIPI held its first developer conference. For more background…

• 3 min read
5G , Automotive , 4G , CSI-2 , Standards , MIPI , mipi devcon , ADAS , I3C , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Padstack Editor – More Than Just a New GUI…

Customer inputs are key to product improvements I can read your minds as you…

• 5 min read
backdrill , Allegro 17.2 , keepouts , masks , padstack , PCB design , Why Move Up to 17.2 , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Signal and Power Integrity Masterclass

At CDNLive Boston, I moderated a panel session on signal and power integrity with…

• 9 min read
DDR4 , CDNLive , dc-dc converters , IBM , Cisco , Oracle , cdnlive boston , advanced bus analysis , Qualcomm , compliance methodology

Academic Network

Cadence at the VLSI Design/CAD 2016 Symposium

Great Academic Networking in Taiwan With the support of the Cadence Academic Network…

• less than a min read
VLSI , Cadence Academic Network

Academic Network

ESSCIRC and ESSDERC in Lausanne

Since the year 2000, the European Solid-State Device Research Conference (ESSDERC…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , esscirc , essderc

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Masten Space Systems: Reuseable Space Craft Innovation With Cadence CFD Software

Until very recently, rockets that launched satellites into orbit were completely…

• 5 min read

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Are These Codecs Any Good? Netflix Tests Them

A codec compresses data for transmission. The first codec I had any close encounter…

• 5 min read
GSM , audio codec , H.265 , codec , netflix , mobile , h.264 , video codec , Breakfast Bytes

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What’s for Breakfast? Preview September 19th to 23rd (video)

https://youtu.be/KKiIDaN-3CE Monday: At CDNLive Boston I moderated a panel session…

• less than a min read
cdnlive tel aviv , Paul McLellan , CDNLive , debug , mellanox , VIP , MIPI , Power Integrity , i2c , cdnlive boston , mipi devcon , Indago , Signal Integrity , cdnlive israel , I3C , what's for breakfast? , protocol verification , Breakfast Bytes , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Emulation Productivity: Beyond the Specs

At CDNLive in Boston, Andrew Ross of AMD presented a wealth of practical information…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , palladium z1 , Protium , Palladium , cdnlive boston , Emulation , FPGA prototyping , Breakfast Bytes
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