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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
• 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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SoC and IP

50 Gbps Ethernet is on the Way

Here is my report from the most recent IEEE 802.3 standards meeting, which was held…

• 2 min read
Ethernet standards , Automotive Ethernet , IEEE 802.3 , Ethernet , Marris , 50G Ethernet

Verification

Cheating Tetris

Remember Tetris? We’ve all played it at some point in our lives. You know, the game…

• 2 min read
Verification Computing Platform , Palladium , Tetris , Emulation

Breakfast Bytes

The Design that Made ARM

I sat down with Simon Segars, the CEO of ARM last Friday. As I said yesterday, it…

• 4 min read
Simon Segars , ARM7TDMI , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Happy 25th Birthday, ARM

This week is ARM's 25th anniversary. It is actually on Friday, the 27th, but since…

• 7 min read
ARM processor , Simon Segars , VSLI , ARM

Verification

A Coverage Time-Saving Tip

How often has this happened to you? You are re-using a part of a previous design…

• 2 min read
IMC , coverage , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Incisive , metric-driven verification , MDV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Breakfast Bytes

Marie Pistilli Passed Away

Marie Pistilli, who was injured in a car-crash in October (as I included in my first…

• less than a min read

Breakfast Bytes

The CDMA Story and Qualcomm

When second generation cell-phone technology, GSM, was developed the biggest issue…

• 4 min read
wireless , GSM , cdma , Qualcomm

Breakfast Bytes

Technology Transfer: The Stanford/Berkeley Model

At SEMICON West this year, I attended an interesting presentation by Steven Forrest…

• 4 min read
marc andreessen , two cultures , Stanford , technology transfer , Berkeley , steven forrest , a16z , mosaic , andreeson , a16z podcast , cp snow

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Designer Manufacturing Option? It's NEW in the 16.6…

Wow! There is an extremely powerful option available for PCB designers in the 16…

• 2 min read
PCB Layout and routing , manufacturing option , Allegro 16.6 , 16.6 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

How to Do Body Bias with GLOBALFOUNDRIES 22FDX and Innovus Implementation System

Last week Cadence put out a press release that the Cadence implementation flow had…

• 5 min read
ARM Techcon , 22fdx , body bias , implementation , GlobalFoundries , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Basic Principles of Deep Learning

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the basic principles…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , deep learning , Tensilica , data analysis , data extraction , pattern recognition

Breakfast Bytes

The Paradox of Open Source

Open source software is software where the source code is fairly freely available…

• 6 min read
closed source , free software , hadoop , android , MontaVista , embedded software , open source , software , free software foundation , linux

Breakfast Bytes

Palladium Z1, an Enterprise Server Farm in a Rack

If you put together your dream emulation system, it would have: Infinite throughput…

• 4 min read
virtualization , Enterprise , palladium z1 , Palladium , Emulation , simulation

Breakfast Bytes

I Danced with a Nun in a Disco…and the micro:bit

How's that for a click-bait title? But it's true. Back in 1969, the British government…

• 3 min read
BBC , microsoft , Acorn Computer , micro:bit , Open University , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Ethernet: Coming Soon to a Car Near You

Ethernet was invented at the legendary Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) by…

• 5 min read
Automotive , can bus , MOST , ethernet phy , Ethernet , canbus , flexray

Breakfast Bytes

ARM's Mike Muller Announces a New Core, a New Instruction Set, and Security Laye…

Mike Muller, ARM's CTO, delivered a little history and a lot of security. Oh, and…

• 4 min read
security , ARM v8 , ARM Techcon , arm cortex-a35 , armv8-M , IoT , Muller , Internet of Things , ARM , Techcon

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - High-Speed QSPI Interface Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Lou Ternullo explains the challenges…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , QSPI interface , high-speed QSPI

Verification

Is There Market Appetite for PCIe 4.0? A View from Tokyo and Taipei

Coming back from the PCI-SIG Developer Conference Asia-Pacific Tour 2015 in Japan…

• 3 min read
PCIe Gen4 , VIP , PCIe , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the DEHDL Variant Editor? The Secret's in the 16.6 Release!

The 16.6–2015 (also known as 16.6 QIR#9) Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) release contains…

• 9 min read
Cadence Design Systems , 16.6 , SPB , Design Entry HDL , Grzenia
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