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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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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

Breakfast Bytes

How Did 3 Engineers Tape Out an ARM IoT Product in 3 Months?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is the hottest buzzword (buzzphrase?) in electronics…

• 4 min read
IoT , Internet of Things , ARM , reference platform

Life at Cadence

Cadence Is One of FORTUNE's Top 50 Best Workplaces for Diversity!

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World's Best , inclusion , Culture , cadence , GPTW , diversity , Fortune 100 best companies to work for , great place to work , best workplace for diversity

Life at Cadence

The Secrets to Building an Inclusive Culture

Many people ask me how Cadence has more than quadrupled its market cap over the last…

• 3 min read
World's Best , Insights on Culture , inclusion , Culture , cadence , Fortune , GPTW , diversity , great place to work , best workplace for diversity

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence Tool Suite Qualified for 22FDX Reference Flow

Let's pull a paragraph out of the joint Cadence/GF press release from earlier today…

• 4 min read
forward body bias , ARM Techcon , Global Foundries , expert bar , Tempus , 22fdx , 28nm , 20nm , arm cortex , rbb , reverse body bias , gf , Voltus , Innovus , FinFET , arm cortex-a17 , GlobalFoundries , ARM , quantus qrx , fbb , Techcon , FD-SOI

Breakfast Bytes

Where Does 5 Really Mean 30? Process Node Naming

In my first real blog here, about the Cadence/imec 5nm announcement, I asked what…

• 3 min read
Intel , process node , Samsung , TSMC , 5nm , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , 10nm , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

How Did Cadence Get to Be Good in Analog?

We recently held the annual Mixed Signal Technology Summit. I blogged about it and…

• 4 min read
cadence , diva , composer , analog , Virtuoso , analog mixed signal , OpenAccess

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Automotive Functional Safety and Reliability Requirements

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, Charles Qi talks about automotive functional…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , functional safety , software , reliability

Breakfast Bytes

This Year's Phil Kaufman Award Recipient: Wally Rhines

This year's Phil Kaufman award recipient is Wally Rhines. I already knew the big…

• 4 min read
DSP , ti320 , Wally Rhines , walden rhines , Mentor Graphics , Kaufman Award , Texas Instruments , Breakfast Bytes , phil kaufman award , Mentor

Breakfast Bytes

The Phil Kaufman Award Dinner Is Later this Month. Who Was Phil Kaufman?

Every year one person in EDA is honored with the Phil Kaufman Award. As it says on…

• 4 min read
SCS , cadence , silicon compilers , sci , Quickturn , Phil Kaufman , Breakfast Bytes , phil kaufman award

Breakfast Bytes

Ten Years Ago Self-Driving Cars Couldn't Go Ten Miles

Recently Tesla activated Autopilot for their vehicles, which are equipped with the…

• 3 min read
delphi , darpa grand challenge , Stanford , autonomous vehicle , cmu , google , tesla , self-driving car , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Mixed-Signal Symposium: Mixed Means More Digital

Earlier this week was the Cadence Mixed-Signal Technology Summit. Since I was the…

• 5 min read
Berkeley , analog , Mixed-Signal Technology Summit , mixed signal , analog mixed signal , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Cadence PCB Design and SI/PI Analysis Products? The 16.6 release…

I’m taking a brief detour from the usual product technical details this week to mention…

• 2 min read
PCB , IC Packaging and SiP Design , Cadence Design Systems , SiP , Allegro 16.6 , Design Entry CIS , DEHDL , FPGA System Planner , High Speed , Allegro Design Workbench , PSPICE , SPB , PCB Editor , High-Density Interconnect , Constraint Manager , Design Entry HDL , Layout , OrCAD , PCB design , AMS simulation , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , ConceptHDL , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Is it Hot? Ask Joules

Ever since Pat Gelsinger, then CTO of Intel, shocked everyone with his power graphs…

• 5 min read
Low Power , RTL , Joules , power , Breakfast Bytes , joules rtl power solution

Breakfast Bytes

The Consolidator Makes a Rare Public Appearance: Hock Tan's Top Ten List

On Saturday I attended the Chinese American Semiconductor Professional Association…

• 5 min read
forecast , Avago , consolidator , broadcom , hock tan , caspa , consolidation , lsi logic

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—MIPI Protocol Trends

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

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , MIPI , MIPI protocols

Breakfast Bytes

IEEE Computer Society: Automotive Cybersecurity

On the third Thursday of each month the IEEE Computer Society of Silicon Valley has…

• 5 min read
security , Automotive , IEEE , Breakfast Bytes
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