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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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Verification

Initial Release of the UVM Now Available!

As Richard Goering just reported , the Accellera VIP Technical Subcommittee (TSC…

• 2 min read
uvm , Verification methodology , OVM , VIP , Accellera VIP TSC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DDR3 Timing issues? Watch the Allegro PCB SI / TimingDesigner Webinar!

Last year, TimingDesigner improved the interface to PCB SI and many of our joint…

• less than a min read
PCB SI , SI , Signal Intregrity , IBIS , PCB Signal and power integrity , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , "PCB design" , DDR3

SoC and IP

Early Adopter release of UVM now available

Accellera has been working on a new industry-standard verification methodology called…

• 1 min read

Verification

EDA360: Cool People Creating Cool Stuff

Now that we have had some time to reflect on the meaning of EDA360 , it occurred…

• 4 min read
EDA360 , Systemm Design and Verification , OpenStreetMap , Embedded Linux , Embedded Software Engineer

Digital Design

What you didn’t know about DFM for advanced node designs: “In-route” is insuffic…

Recently, there has been a lot of buzz about addressing DFM issues during routing…

• 3 min read
Digital Implementation forums , DRC , design rules , EDA , Encounter Digital Implementation System 9.1 , Manufacturability sign-off , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation , EDI system Encounter Digital Implementation System , DFM

SoC and IP

SSDs in embedded control: cold rolling steel in old European factories

By far, most application stories connected with SSDs revolve around servers and PCs…

• 3 min read

SoC and IP

CADENCE TO ACQUIRE DENALI

Complementary Transaction Supports Cadence’s EDA360 Vision SAN JOSE and SUNNYVALE…

• 2 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Economic Recovery on the Way to the Airport

Last week, one of the members of TEAMOrCAD took a trip to China. The ride to the…

• 1 min read
"capture CIS" , PSPICE , "PCB design" , OrCAD , PCB Capture , Schematic

SoC and IP

Mass marketing methods come to SSDs

Newly introduced and available for pre-availability orders, the privately branded…

• 3 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About SCM and Packageable Schematics? The Secret's in the SPB16.3 Release

Many customers want to use System Connectivity Manager (SCM) known as Allegro System…

• 1 min read
SCM , Allegro Design Entry , DEHDL , SPB 16.3 , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , PCB design , Design Entry , ConceptHDL , Schematic

SoC and IP

Enterprise-class HDDs due to disappear, soon. All hail the enterprise-class SSD.

The great Grand Poobah of SSD research Jim Handy released an industry report on Enterprise…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Last call for free DAC tix

The DAC 2010 (DAC47) free exhibit passes program has been a big success with more…

• 1 min read

Verification

Inside Cadence: Training for EDA360

Over the past few weeks all of Cadence's Verification and Systems Solutions Applications…

• 5 min read
Specman , TLM , OVM ML , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , OVM e , CtoSilocon , OVM SV , e , Enterprise Manager , Palladium XP , MDV , IEV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IFV , IES-XL

Verification

FMCAD Call for Papers Extended to May 12

Team Verify would like to inform you about the final call for papers for FMCAD 2010…

• 7 min read
ABV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Incisive , IEV , IFV

SoC and IP

SSDs don’t need disk interfaces. Case in point: OCZ’s USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Enyo

Most SSDs are designed to be interface- and form-factor-compatible with existing…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

New White Paper discusses the challenges of chip design based on AMBA 4

ARM’s series of AMBA specifications have become a de facto standard for SoC (system…

• 2 min read

SoC and IP

Memory Market Outlook for 2010: How Bad (or Good) is it?

If you’ve been following the roller-coaster ride that constitutes the global semiconductor…

• less than a min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About DEHDL Alignment? You’ve got it in the SPB16.3 Release!

Schematic construction requires a lot of effort in placing components, wires and…

• 2 min read
Allegro Design Entry , DEHDL , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Component Alignment , SPB , Design Entry HDL , Front-end PCB design , Design Entry , ConceptHDL , Schematic

Verification

Informative Tweets on WHEN Inheritance

Earlier today a lively and very instructive thread on the relative virtues of WHEN…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , when sub-typing , tweeting , Specman , Functional Verification , when inheritance , OVM , OVM e , OVM SV , e , Twitter , AOP , IES-XL
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