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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

The Four Ts: Trade, Tax, Talent and Technology Funding

If you work in the semiconductor industry, and you probably do if you are reading…

• 6 min read
semicon , semi , technology funding , trade , talent , Breakfast Bytes , tax

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON: China, China, China

I have been at SEMICON West recently. Just a little introduction in case you don…

• 5 min read
China , semicon , semiconductor equipment , semicon west , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: More Info Button – A Shortcut to Detailed API Help Through SKILL Fin…

The best part about programming in SKILL™ is that you don't have to build everything…

• 3 min read
SKILL API Finder , Team SKILL , Cadence SKILL , programming , SKILL for the Skilled , API Documentation , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , software development , More Info Button , cdsFinder , SKILL++ , SKILL APIs , Custom IC , SKILL

Academic Network

Workshops in EMEA

One of the main targets of the Cadence Academic Network is to present latest Cadence…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , academic workshop , academia , MEMS Design Contest , Reutlingen University , CDNLive EMEA , Bar Ilan University , Cadence Design Contest

Breakfast Bytes

CDNDrive: Automotive Functional Safety

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things…

• 3 min read
Automotive , functional safety , iso 9001 , asil b , ISO 26262 , fusa , Breakfast Bytes

Computational Fluid Dynamics

The Aerogust Project: Aeroelastic Gust and Turbulence Modeling

A key element in the design of an aircraft is to make sure it can cope with the stresses…

• 2 min read
CFD , Aerospace , turbulence , Computational Fluid Dynamics , Aerospace Engineering , NUMECA , Aerodynamics

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 17th to 21st 2017

https://youtu.be/vzXHenSMfoM Coming from the Cadence campus (camera Sean) …

• less than a min read
Automotive , China , Cadence Academic Network , semicon , semicon west

Verification

Mediatek Deploys Perspec for SoC Verification of Low Power Management (part 2 of…

Here we go through the application of Cadence Perspec™ System Verifier by Mediatek…

• 1 min read
uvm , Perspec , coherent , perspec system verifier , coherency library , coherency , Accellera , mediatek , ARM , pss , portable stimulus

Breakfast Bytes

CDNDrive: Cadence Automotive IP Solutions

At CDNLive in Munich, Cadence's Robert Schweiger gave a walkthrough all of the things…

• 6 min read
Automotive , DSP , Vision P5 , LPDDR4 , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , ADAS , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Mediatek Deploys Perspec for SoC Verification of Low Power Management

Mediatek has been using the Cadence Perspec™ System Verifier for their SoC level…

• 2 min read
uvm , Perspec , coherent , perspec system verifier , coherency library , coherency , Accellera , mediatek , ARM , pss , portable stimulus

SoC and IP

What Will It Take to Bring DNN to Embedded?

If you missed Michelle Mao’s presentation at the recent Autosens conference in Detroit…

• less than a min read
architecture , Vision C5 , Tensilica , vision , dnn , CNN , neural nets , embedded

Breakfast Bytes

CactusNet: Moving Neural Nets from the Cloud to Embed Them in Cars

At the recent Autosens conference in Detroit, Cadence's Michelle (Xuehong) Mao presented…

• 4 min read
autosens , Vision C5 , Tensilica , cactusnet , dnn , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Standard Approach to Lane Margining as Defined by PCIe…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, IP Architect Gopi Krishnamurthy explains…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PCIe Gen4 , PCIe , PCI Express

Academic Network

Academic Network at DAC 2017

Design Automatisation Conference (DAC) is the largest EDA conference in the world…

• 3 min read
dac54 , Cadence Academic Network , academia , CEDA , ACM , SIGDA , IEEE , Design Automation Conference

Breakfast Bytes

CactusNet: One Network to Rule Them All

There is a widening split in the approaches being taken by academic attempts to built…

• 5 min read
Automotive , Low Power , cactusnet , dnn , neural networks , CNN , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Triple Witching Hour for Automotive

In New York, there is an occasion four times a year known as the "triple witching…

• 8 min read
electric traction , Automotive , uber , shared ownership , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 10th to 14th 2017

https://youtu.be/hEhCQwICR4g Coming from the Computer History Museum, Mountain…

• less than a min read
Automotive , functional safety , deep learning , cactus net , Automotive Ethernet , Tensilica , convolutional neural nets , cactusnet , CNN

RF Engineering

Link to: 7 Habits of Highly Successful S-Parameters: How to Simulate Those Pesky…

Hi All, If you were unable to attend IMS 2017 in June 2017, the IMS MicroApp …

• less than a min read
nport , analog/RF , APS , S-parameter , Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Broadband SPICE , nport settings , RF spectre spectreRF , spectreRF , s parameter simulation

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: How Can I Organize My Assistants and Toolbars?

Many things in Virtuoso can be customized, showing/hiding and configuring the layout…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE GXL , PAD , custom/analog , ADE Explorer , Explorer , Routing , ADE XL , ADE , VLS GXL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ADE-GXL , Analog Design Environment , Schematic Editor , ADE-XL , RF design , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Schematic , parasitics , ADE Assembler
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