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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

See Demonstration Video of PCIe 4.0 PHY IP in TSMC 16FF+

Did you miss DesignCon this year? If so, you also missed the demonstration of our…

• less than a min read
DesignCon , PCIe Gen4 , pcie4 , SerDes

Breakfast Bytes

Barcelona MWC: Cadence, Vision, Audio, USB Type-C

Cadence has been at Mobile World Congress all week. Actually they are still there…

• 4 min read
lumia , USB Type-C , mwc16 , Mobile World Congress , HiFi , convolutional neural network , MWC , Tensilica , CNN

Academic Network

Students from University of Calgary Visit Cadence Headquarters

The Cadence Academic Network is also a career network. We love to help students from…

• 2 min read
university , Cadence Academic Network , Calgary , engineering , university program

Breakfast Bytes

Barcelona MWC: ARM, Virtual Reality, Formula 1

Sometimes a little slip of the tongue gives away a deeper truth. One of those happened…

• 6 min read
Simon Segars , barcelona , gsma , Mobile World Congress , vr , lewis hamilton , MWC , formula one , Qualcomm , formula 1 , ARM , Breakfast Bytes , sk telecom

Academic Network

Do You Want to Be Up-to-date About the Cadence Academic Network?

If yes, then join our community of more than 1000 colleges and subscribe to Cadence…

• 1 min read
university , Cadence Academic Network , academia

Breakfast Bytes

Barcelona MWC: Zuckerberg Interview

The last event of the day at Mobile World Congress was an interview with Mark Zuckerberg…

• 5 min read
Oculus , mwc16 , barcelona , Facebook , MWC , virtual reality , drones , zuckerberg

Breakfast Bytes

Barcelona MWC: 5G and Disruption

I am in Barcelona at Mobile World Congress. They won't give me a press pass since…

• 6 min read
5G , mwc16 , barcelona , at&t , Mobile World Congress , Ericsson , MWC , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Power Delivery Trends from CES 2016

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda recaps his experience at the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , USB Type-C , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , CES 2016 , USB , Type-C , power

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Capture-PSpice Flow? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New…

In the Capture-PSpice 16.6-2015 release, the following enhancements have been added…

• 3 min read
AMS , AMS simulator , OrCAD Capture , Capture CIS , PSPICE , SPB , OrCAD , AMS simulation , Grzenia

Breakfast Bytes

Learning is the New Programming: Neural Nets

Whenever I hear of "deep learning," it makes me think of Deep Thought, the computer…

• 4 min read
deep learning , embedded vision , learning , Tensilica , vision , neural networks , CNN , neural nets , embedded neural nets

Verification

UVM-ML OA: Now Within Incisive Platform As Well!

Open-source software has many advantages. In short: you can see it (the code), you…

• 3 min read
Specman , UVM-ML OA , Incisive , multi-language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Overlay Shapes on Top of Sets of Reference Objects with the Latest Cadence…

Many of you are familiar with the bond finger soldermask opening creation tool—used…

• 3 min read
bounding shapes , SiP , IC package design , APD , beta tools , package design , shapes

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive Test, How to Use Just Two Pins

Automotive chips often suffer from a limited chip interface in which most of the…

• 4 min read
Automotive , two pin test , JTAG , tap , manchester encoding , tap controller , low pin count test

Breakfast Bytes

Internet of Things: How Will They Be Built?

The Internet of Things (IoT) is not really a market, it is a catchall term for devices…

• 3 min read
security , IoT , MIPI , CSI , encryption , wearables , fitness tracker , Internet of Things , drones , FitBit , power

Breakfast Bytes

How ARM Servers Can Take Over the World

One of the big themes of the Linley Data Center Conference last week was the possibility…

• 4 min read
ARMv8 , Intel , AMD , arm servers , red hat , broadcom , Qualcomm , AppliedMicro , ARM , linux

Breakfast Bytes

Care for Some Gates With Your Server?

One of the big themes from the Linley Data Center Conference earlier this month was…

• 4 min read
Intel , GPU , data center , Altera , HBM , cloud , High Bandwidth Memory , Stratix , datacenter , FPGA , cloud computing

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Ethernet and Automotive Electronics

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Sachin Dhingra follows up on last week…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Automotive Ethernet , automotive electronics

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence at embedded world—ADAS, the Stepping Stone to Self-Driving Cars

Cadence will be at embedded world in Nüremberg from February 23 to 26. We will be…

• 3 min read
functional safety , vision processing , nüremburg , ECU , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , ISO 26262 , Embedded World , video processing , audioprocessing , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Functional Verification Closure—Are We Done Yet?

In my job as product marketing director for vManager and MDV, I get to hear this…

• 4 min read
methodology , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , vPlan , Incisive , Plan and metrics management , vManager
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