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Explore Photonics and Quantum Technologies at CadenceCONNECT 2025

The intersection of photonics and quantum computing marks a pivotal moment in advancing…

Vinod Khera
• 1 min read
Quantum States , featured , cadenceconnect , photonics , Quantum Technology

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
IC 23.1 , featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , Virtuoso

SoC and IP

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

MBhatnagar
• 3 min read
ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die

Corporate News

Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About HDI Via Structures - Check out the SPB16.2 Release and See!

New functionality has been added to the SPB16.2 Allegro PCB Editor suite of tools…

• 12 min read
SPB 16.2 , LMB , via , PCB design , microvia

Digital Design

Coming This Friday November 14th: SoC-Encounter Office Hours

I've really been enjoying the discussions in our Digital Implementation Forums…

• 1 min read
SoC-Encounter , Digital Implementation forums , chat

Digital Design

How to Change a Net Name

This is a question that comes up once every few months or so: "How do I change the…

• less than a min read
Digital Implementation

Digital Design

Demo: Partitioning a Design in SoC-Encounter

One of the longest standing capabilities in SoC-Encounter is its ability to partition…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , partitioning , hierarchical design , screencast , Digital Implementation

Verification

Heads-up: Formal + Productivity Flow Technical Webinar Coming Up On Nov 12th

Heads-up: there is a free technical webinar next Wednesday 11/12 that goes deeper…

• 2 min read
FPV , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , coverage driven verification (CDV)

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The SPB16.2 Release? WOW - Download It now!

The SPB16.2 release is now available (actually, it was available on 10/31/08 from…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Portable Design Names Cadence Incisive Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis its September…

In his article in Portable Design, John Donovan wrote: Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis…

• less than a min read
Portable Design , System Design and Verification , Palladium

Verification

Welcome Sharath Siddappa From Rambus, You Are The 5000th OVM World Registrant!

Welcome Sharath Siddappa, the 5000th OVM World registrant! In only 10 months, the…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , eRM , OVMWorld

Verification

OVM - The "O" Means Opportunity

A few months back I blogged that OVM was " Open for Business ". A nice play on words…

• 1 min read
Simantis , eclipse , KPIT , Functional Verification , IBM , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , Doulos

Verification

Report From the Advanced Verification Techtorial in San Jose Tuesday 10/28

I'm excited to report that Tuesday's techtorial, covering a range of topics underneath…

• 1 min read
Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Verification

The Power of Cadence System Power Flow vs. Viewing from the Top

I feel that I must respond to the following blog published by Frank Schirrmeister…

• 6 min read
Incyte Chip , System Design and Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Palladium , power engineer , C-to-Silicon , Power Analysis , Frank Schirrmeister

Verification

ESC Boston: Day 2

This morning before heading to ESC it dawned on me that the park across the street…

• 4 min read
System Design and Verification , ESC , ISX , Coverage Driven Verification

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: ViVA-XL - Fast Waveform Viewing

It’s happened to each of us at some point in time. Your long simulation is finally…

• less than a min read
ViVa-XL , MMSIM , Simulators , Custom IC Design , Fast Waveform Viewing

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Directive Locking?

Do you wish you could lock specific aspects of a DEHDL design content? Do you need…

• 5 min read
CPM Directive Control , DEHDL , Directive Lockhing , PCB design , SPB16.01

Verification

Virtualization Taxonomy

I arrived safe and sound at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston today. It's…

• 2 min read
VM ware , virtualization , taxonomy , real-time systems , Embedded Systems Conference , System Design and Verification , ESC

Verification

OVM Momentum and Interoperability

The question of how to integrate legacy VMM VIP into OVM verification environments…

• 1 min read
OVM Professionals Network , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , VIP , Verification IP modeling

Verification

Verification Techtorial in San Jose next Tuesday 10/28

Apologies for the shameless promotion, but I can't resist touting an event I'm producing…

• less than a min read
Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Verification

Formal Moment Of Zen

Most of my experience in functional verification prior to my dabbling in FPV was…

• 3 min read
OVL , FPV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , SCV , SVA , FIFO , PSL , Simulation acceleration , SystemC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Need some stability in your Package Power?

It is not too late to sign up for the Package Power Integrity webinar that will be…

• less than a min read
PDN , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB16.2 , SSN
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