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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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Verification

Is Host-Code Execution History?

Before getting into the details of today's topic I'm happy to report a brand new…

• 5 min read
Cisco , System Design and Verification , MIPS , Palladium , Sun , Verilog , OVP , ARM , Virtutech , QEMU

Digital Design

Getting Started with dbGet

If you've been checking out the other blogs here in the Digital Implementation community…

• 2 min read
database access , SoC-Encounter , dbGet , dbSet

Verification

Top 5 Stumbling Blocks In FPV Adoption

My first post served as a context for this blog. It also telegraphed my intention…

• 5 min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification

Verification

More on today's Verification IP portfolio expansion news

Today's announcement on our expanding Verification IP (VIP) portfolio inspired me…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , Verification IP modeling , multi-language

Digital Design

An Interview with Global Timing Debug Architect Thad McCracken

So who is Thad McCracken and why should you be interesting in reading this blog entry…

• 8 min read
SoC-Encounter , Ostrich , Global Timing Debug

Verification

Getting more value from the OVM using Metric-Driven Verification - Part II

In my last post , I talked about how OVM is a methodology for building automated…

• 1 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OVM , ARM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Verification

Early Embedded Systems Conference Coverage

Today, a friend sent me a link to an article on embedded.com that talks about my…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification , Embedded Systems Boston Conference

Verification

Is there a 1 Billion gate chip on your roadmap?

Yes, I'm asking about chips that will have 1 billion -- that's billion with a "B…

• 1 min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , System Verification

Digital Design

createPGPin to the rescue: getting the power pins you want in your block LEF

Hi Everyone! Welcome to my first blog post! My plan for this space is to share with…

• 2 min read
SoC-Encounter , lefOut followpins , LEF , createPGPin

RF Engineering

Going broadside with electromagnetic modeling of advanced processes

It has caught my attention that designs using fabrication processes such as 65nm…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso RF Designer , Electromagnetic analysis , Electromagnetic (EM) , RF design , Circuit Design , wireless integrated circuit verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good about the new "Class" Scope for Match Groups in Constraint Manager?

In the SPB16.01 release, for the Constraint Manager in DEHDL, the is a new scope…

• 1 min read
Constraint Manager , Class Scope , PCB design

Verification

System-level design and verification - at the center!

This year, Cadence increases its focus on system-level design and verification events…

• 1 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , embedded software , Emulation , ESL handoff , System simulation and analysis , Coverage Driven Verification for Embedded Software , embedded SW engineer , CDNLive! Silicon Valley 2008 , ISX , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL , architect

Verification

Power Aware Design Now at System Level

Several years ago, I have purchased a cell phone with a 2 years contract from one…

• 2 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Low power verification and analysis , system validation/verification engineer , Verification Acceleration , System simulation and analysis , embedded SW engineer , Simulation acceleration , C-to-Silicon Compiler , Hardware/software co-verification , debugging , ESL , architect

Digital Design

Demo: Calling Global Timing Debug for a Single Path

Global Timing Debug has been a very popular capability within SoC-Encounter. Once…

• 1 min read
SoC-Encounter , STA , screencast , Digital Implementation , Global Timing Debug

Analog/Custom Design

Custom IC design, layouts, and productivity

There is a definite challenge in maintaining productivity when it comes to realizing…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! MVP discusses modeling 6 Gbps Serial Links with IBIS-AMI modeling

Congratulations to Donald Telian and his colleagues at Hitachi and IBM on winning…

• less than a min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB Signal and power integrity , IBIS-AMI , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , CDNLive!

Verification

An informal introduction

Formal verification can mean different things depending upon who you speak to. If…

• 1 min read
Formal Analysis , Model-checking

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in PCB Librarian?

You may recall a post I made a couple months ago about What's Good About Differential…

• 1 min read
DEHDL , Library and design data management , Design Entry HDL , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! - 10 Gbit package design paper available to conference attendees

For those of you that attended CDNLive! but may have missed the presentation on multi…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , 3D-IC , TSV , Allegro 16.2 , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SI analysis and modeling
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