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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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Digital Marketing in EDA...with No Hands on the Wheel

Years (decades) ago, Robert Townsend, the CEO of Avis, faced a problem. Hertz was…

• 5 min read
google , YouTube , digital marketing , Twitter , adwords , onespin , esd alliance

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesday - Introducing the DFI 5.0 Interface Standard

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday, John MacLaren, chairman of the DDR PHY Interface…

• less than a min read
DDR Controller , Whiteboard Wednesdays , DDR PHY

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Legato: Smooth Reliability for Automobiles

In his keynote at ICCAD in 2014, Bosch's VP engineering Peter van Staa said that…

• 4 min read
legato , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , reliability

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 14th to 18th 2018

https://youtu.be/T4Pu_l6upso Coming from Englischergarten Munich (camera Andy…

• less than a min read
bag , CDNLive , efpga , chisel , CDNLive EMEA , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , FPGA

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC's Fab Plans, and More

The TSMC Technology Symposium took place recently. I grouped all the process and…

• 5 min read
gigafab , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

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TSMC Technology Symposium 2018

This week it was the TSMC Technology Symposium in Silicon Valley. Dave Keller, president…

• 9 min read
n5 , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , n7+ , n7 , 5nm , 7nm

Verification

Leading the Charge: Cadence Announces New Verification IP for UFS 3.0, CoaxPress…

Today, Cadence announced three new VIPs, two of which are industry-firsts! Cadence…

• 1 min read
hyperRAM , Functional Verification , coaxpress , UFS , press release

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview May 7th to 11th 2018

https://youtu.be/OJRKUHltc1c Coming from Teske's Germania (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
CDNLive EMEA , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , digital marketing , social engineering , esd alliance

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The San Jose Tech Museum

Last summer, I did a series of posts about technology museums. If you missed them…

• 6 min read
security , san jose , the tech , body worlds

Breakfast Bytes

DDR5 IP Test Chip Operates with Micron Prototype DRAM at 4400 MT/s

The DDR5 standard has not been finalized by JEDEC, and they are very strict about…

• 4 min read
ddr5 , DDR4 , TSMC , DRAM , DDR , 7nm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Tensilica DSPs, Sensors, and Neural Networks

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last in a three-part series, Robert…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , sensor fusion , lidar , radar , camera , ADAS

Verification

How We Developed and Tested a Prototype DDR5 Interface in Silicon Based on a Preliminary…

We’re thrilled to have announced our prototype 7nm DDR5 IP silicon based on a preliminary…

• 2 min read
DDR Controller , Verification IP , ddr5 , DDR4 , TSMC Tech Symposium , TSMC , DDR , DDR PHY

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WoW! TSMC Sticks Whole Wafers Together

Today it is the TSMC Technology Symposium. As always, Cadence is making several announcements…

• 5 min read
wow , 3DIC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Preventing Redundant Simulations

I'm sure we all might have come across this situation - Not being sure if something…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Custom IC Design , Assembler , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Use Colin Thomson's New RAK to Learn How Legacy Designs Can be Made XL…

Are you bringing in a Layout L design, or a design made outside of Virtuoso into…

• 3 min read
Layout XL-compliance , Virtuosity , Layout design , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Layout Editing , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

AMI for DDR5 Made Easy

In a post last week, I covered IBIS and AMI. One big change that is happening is…

• 5 min read
ddr5 , DDR4 , ami builder , DRAM , Sigrity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Reduce Time-to-Market for Your System-level Designs Using PSpice Systems Option

Looking for a technology to simulate analog/digital mix-signal electronics alongside…

• 2 min read
co-simulation , PSPICE , System-Level Design , OrCAD

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 Now Available

The IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 production releases are now available for download…

• 1 min read
IC , ICADV12.3 , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

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Some Real Russian Hacking

Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin were in Moscow for a PHDays (positive hacking…

• 7 min read
security , rsa conference , hbo , rsa
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