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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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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

Breakfast Bytes

Emulation: the Key to Virtual Platforms

Between about 2000 and 2010, there were a number of startup companies that attempted…

• 5 min read
virtual platforms , RTL , Palladium , Emulation

Breakfast Bytes

Weekly News—October 23rd 2015

ARM Acquires Carbon ARM announced that it had acquired Carbon Design Systems.…

• 3 min read
Western Digital , SanDisk , IoT , KLA-Tencor , Lam Research , ARM , semiconductors

Life at Cadence

Cadence Is the #21 World’s Best Workplace!

We are honored to be named #21 on FORTUNE’s list of the Best Global Companies to…

• 1 min read
World's Best , Culture , Community , innovation , cadence , Fortune , GPTW , Fortune 100 best companies to work for , great place to work

Breakfast Bytes

Lawyers, Guns, and Money: An Evening with EDAC on Patents

Next Thursday, October 29, 2015, the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDAC…

• 5 min read
VLSI , US Patent and Trademark Office , USPTOSV , EDAC , patents , patent litigation , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Things I Learned in June and July 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Su…

Cadence Online Support Release Highlights July 2015 Some nice enhancements to…

• 7 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE XL , Spectre , PVS , Custom IC Design , ICRP , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

How Is Google So Good at Recognizing Cats?

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are a key technique for image recognition. As…

• 3 min read
performance , Low Power , Tensilica , convolutional neural nets , neural networks , CNN , power , neural nets , image recognition , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Things I Learned in August and September 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online…

Cadence Online Support Features Setting the Release Preferences for your search…

• 5 min read
AMS , ADE , spectreRF , Liberate , PVS , Custom IC Design , XLME

Digital Design

Performance, Power, Area. It's All You Need to Know—or Is It?

Whether it's in a technical paper, a pundit's article, or a live discussion with…

• 2 min read
High-Level Synthesis , PPA , Stratus , SystemC , HLS

SoC and IP

Lowering Energy Consumption in Always-on IoT Designs

As a lead design engineer on the Tensilica R&D team, Dr. Avinash Lingamneni certainly…

• 5 min read
Low Power , always on , IoT , wearable , Tensilica , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

I've Got My Personal Portable Communications Equipment. But Where's My Hoverboard…

You have probably seen the Back to the Future trilogy. In Back to the Future II Marty…

• 3 min read
electronics , moore's law , hoverboard , Marty McFly , Back to the Future

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Cadence IP Solution for USB Type-C

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda talks about the components…

• less than a min read
DSP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , DisplayPort , USB , Tensilica , Xtensa , Type-C , multi-protocol

Verification

MIPI CSI-2—What's Cooking with the Most Popular Mobile Camera Interface?

The MIPI CSI-2 (Camera Serial Interface) specification is celebrating its tenth birthday…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , MIPI Alliance , IoT , VIP , MIPI , CSI
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