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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

Have You Considered e Lately?

Richard Goering's recent interview with Mitch Weaver on the future of Specman and…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , Testbench simulation , e , verification

Verification

Running Incisive on Ubuntu Linux

Ubuntu is by many accounts the most popular and the easiest to use Linux distribution…

• 4 min read
Incisive , Ubuntu , Systemm Design and Verification , Virtual Machine , linux

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Capture’s Auto-Wiring? You’ll Need The SPB16.3 Release to See!

Just a brief post this week to highlight one of the new SPB16.3 features in Allegro…

• 3 min read
Design Entry CIS , SPB 16.3 , Auto-wire , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Why OOP Falls Short For Verification

Last week at DVCon , frequent Team Specman guest blogger Matan Vax of R&D gave a…

• less than a min read
Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , e , DVcon , OOP , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Thumbnails

Boy, you must think we're a few sandwiches short of a picnic over here at Cadence…

• 1 min read
IC 6.1 , thumbnails , Virtuoso , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Behavioral Modeling - What Language Do You Speak?

An increasing number of mixed-signal design teams are contemplating adding analog…

• 2 min read
mixed-signal simulators , MMSIM , analog , Mixed-Signal , Block-level simulation , AMS simulation , Circuit Design , mixed signal , Custom IC Design , Custim IC Design , Cusstom IC Design

Verification

DVCon 2010 - Day 3

Click here or on the image below to go to the annotated photo blog of DVCon 2010…

• less than a min read
Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , OVM SV , DVcon , OOP , AMIQ , OVM SC

Verification

DVCon 2010 Rocked!

I've spent much of this week at the San Jose Doubletree Hotel for DVCon 2010 , and…

• 1 min read
DAC , uvm , methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , DVcon

Verification

DVCon 2010 - Day 2

Click here or on the image below to go to the annotated photo blog of DVCon Day 2…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , CDV , OVM SV , e , Mike Stellfox , DVcon , OOP , AOP

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The Latest Cadence Online Support? Check Out This List!

This past weekend, several new enhancements and features were added to Cadence Online…

• 2 min read
Allegro Design Entry , SPB 16.3 , Support , Allegroro , PCB design

Digital Design

Encounter How To: Writing To/Reading From a File With TCL

A couple weeks ago, there was a good thread in the Digital Implementation Forums…

• 2 min read
EDI system , encounter digital implementation system , Digital Implementation , Closure , Foundation Flow Design , scripting , tcl

Verification

DVCon 2010 - Day 1

Click here or on the image below to go to the photo blog of DVCon Day 1. …

• less than a min read
uvm , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , OVM SV , DVcon , AMIQ , Accellera , OVM SC

Verification

DVCon "Day 0" - Quick Report From SystemC Day

If you were looking for more evidence that the transition from RTL to ESL is gaining…

• 1 min read
TLM , Functional Verification , DVcon , SystemC , System Verification , ESL

Verification

Editor For OVM Field Registration Macros

The OVM SystemVerilog Class Library has built-in automation for many service routines…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , eclipse , uvm , Functional Verification , OVM , AMIQ , macros

Verification

DVCon: Showcasing The Cadence Passion For Verification Excellence

Yeah, I know I'm a marketing guy but I really like this stuff! For sure, we are going…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , Low Power , ABV , Functional Verification , simvision , OVM , Incisive , e , DVcon , SystemC , mixed signal , IES

Verification

Quiet Before The Storm? And What to Expect at DVCon 2010

In the last couple weeks Mentor did an about-face and decided to embrace SystemC…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , DVcon , SystemC , ESL

Digital Design

User Review of The Encounter Foundation Flow

This is a guest post from John McGehee. John is an independent consultant in Silicon…

• 4 min read
Foundation Flow , Encounter Digital Implementation System 9.1 , scripting , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

Rev 2 of OVM e Scoreboard on OVMWorld.org Now

Just in time for DVCon 2010 , I'm happy to inform you that revision 2 of the OVM…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , e , DVcon

Verification

Moving Past The Missing Model Syndrome

One of the issues that has hindered the progress of using Virtual Platforms for early…

• 4 min read
Fast Models , Models , virtual platform , C-to-Silcon , SoC , ARM , System Design and Verification
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