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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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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

Breakfast Bytes

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

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? Tabbed Routing - The Next Generation High Speed…

Improve Route Channel Utilization with Tabbed Routing Tabbed routing is a new…

• 2 min read
Routing , high-speed , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2

Breakfast Bytes

Optimizing Power with Palladium

At TSMC's OIP Ecosystem Symposium, Cadence's Frank Schirrmeister presented on Software…

• 4 min read
palladium z1 , Dynamic Power Analysis , TSMC , TSMC OIP , Incisive , power , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What Is Automotive Tool Confidence Level 1?

ISO 26262 is the functional safety standard for automotive, as you probably already…

• 4 min read
tcl1 , tool confidence level , ISO 26262 , Breakfast Bytes , tcl

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 14th to 18th

https://youtu.be/OQ1c30nbD0s Monday: Red Hat's Jon Masters talks about ARM…

• less than a min read
Automotive , ARM Techcon , Jasper User Group , risc-v , NXP , jasper gold , JUG , formal , risc-v foundation , google , red hat , Jasper , open source , mobile , ISO 26262 , ARM , linux , Formal verification , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Moore and Medical at ARM TechCon

The second keynote on the first day of ARM TechCon was a double act with Greg Yeric…

• 7 min read
security , greg yeric , ARM Techcon , IoT , 28nm , 3nm , 5nm7nm , Mike Muller , medical , moore's law , privacy , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , 2nm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Industry Trends and Requirements for Autonomous Driving

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three part series focusing…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , functional safety , automotive electronics

Breakfast Bytes

Who Wrote the Book on Formal Verification?

Who wrote the book on formal verification? Depending on whether you want to take…

• 5 min read
Intel , Jasper User Group , JUG , formal , CDC , Jasper , property checking , Equivalence Checking , jug 2016 , clock domain crossing , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , Formal verification , verification

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: I Am Not Promoting Layout Hierarchy Manipulation!

Are you contemplating manipulating your layout hierarchy by adding or removing a…

• 5 min read
Flatten , Transparent instances , Virtuoso Video Diary , Connectivity-driven , Make Cell , XL-compliance , Layout hierarchy manipulation , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

The Amazing Raspberry Pi Story

Eben Upton gave a spellbinding keynote at ARM TechCon on the history of Raspberry…

• 9 min read
BBC , Raspberry Pi , Cambridge , acorn , british broadcasting corporation , ARM , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive Security: A Hacker's Eye View

Charlie Miller gave a keynote at ARM TechCon on automotive security. He is regarded…

• 8 min read
security , Automotive , onstar , uber , jeep , chris valasek , charlie miller , tesla , wired magazine , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Analog Devices Promotes Portable Stimulus at DVClub

If you’re not familiar with the series of DVClub events held in North American, Europe…

• 3 min read
Analog Devices. ADI , pswg , cadence , debug , System Design and Verification , Dave Brownell , software , Accellera , System Design & Verification , portable stimulus , System Design and Verification , verification

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview November 7th to 11th

https://youtu.be/n4jz8shM1hM Monday: The amazing story of Raspberry Pi as…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , greg yeric , ARM Techcon , Jasper User Group , Low Power , trustzone , Raspberry Pi , jasper gold , palladium z1 , eben upton , JUG , IoT , tcl1 , Palladium , Jasper , Mike Muller , medical , Internet of Things , Power Analysis , ISO 26262 , ARM , Formal verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Address the Challenges of Serial Link Design and Analysis

What is a serial link? It's an interface where data is serialized for high-speed…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , PCB , SI , IBIS-AMI , Signal Integrity , Sigrity , High Speed design , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive Is a Pot of Gold Guarded by a Dragon

One of the big themes of pretty much any conference on semiconductors these days…

• 6 min read
Automotive , functional safety , tool confidence level , DVcon , DVCon Europe , ISO 26262 , optima , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Optimized FFTs on the Tensilica ConnX BBE32EP DSP

Fast Fourier transform (FFT) is a key kernel in almost all DSP applications, and…

• less than a min read
DSP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , baseband , ConnX , radar , Tensilica , signal processing , FFT

Verification

Genie in a Mouse Click: Indago Protocol Debug App

Do you remember what life was like before the internet and smart phones? If you wanted…

• 4 min read
Productivity Tool , Verification IP , and Verification IP' , VIP , Indago Protocol Debug App , design , 'Tensilica

Breakfast Bytes

Wave Computing: a Dataflow Processor for Deep Learning

On the first day of the Linley Processor conference someone told me that he was really…

• 4 min read
deep learning , tpu , wave computing , DPU , tensor flow , dataflow computing , Breakfast Bytes , dataflow processor
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