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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

Android System Verification Part 6

Welcome to Part 6 of Android System Verification. It's getting hard to trace back…

• 3 min read
emulator , android , System Design and Verification , system

RF Engineering

Using The Composite Triple Beat Source to Speed up QPSS Analysis

Say you have a design with 4 input frequencies: 3164M (vco), 1449M (tone0), 1456M…

• 2 min read
RFIC , QPSS Analysis , CTB , Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , MMSIM , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance , Composite Triple Beat

SoC and IP

The Flash Factor for Consumer Devices: Will NAND Flash and Hard Disk Storage Coexist…

By Steve Leibson for Denali Software If you spend a lot of time reading and…

• 4 min read

Verification

Changing The "F" in RTFM to "Fantastic"

Talk about unsung -- tech writers just don't get the credit they deserve. They sit…

• 1 min read
Tech Pubs , Functional Verification , Incisive , Kit , IES , IES-XL

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Layout Migrate - 614 Enhancements

Hi, I'm Thibault Alix and I have been working with the VLM team for two years. I…

• 1 min read
Layout Migrate , Virtuoso , IC 6.1.4 , VLM , Custim IC Design , SKILL

Verification

AMIQ DVT Maximizes OVM Reuse Via Methodology Compliance

The Open Verification Component (OVC) defined by the official OVM User Guide in the…

• less than a min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , OVM ML , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM SV , Signal Integrity , AMIQ , IES , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro Placement Replication / Fine Tuning? - Look to SPB16.3…

Placement replication was introduced in Allegro PCB Editor SPB16.2. At that time…

• 5 min read
SPB 16.2 , Placement Replication , SPB 16.3 , Allegroro , PCB design

SoC and IP

Low Power DDR Options -- From the Trenches

by Marc Greenberg, Director of Technical Marketing, Denali Software Momentum…

• 3 min read

Verification

Back to Work in 2010

It's back to work in 2010. Thanks for all the great feedback in 2009. I plan to continue…

• 2 min read
global warming , System Design and Verification , code offets , linux

Digital Design

Design Signoff Begins In Implementation

As an ex-design engineer now working in EDA, I am often privileged to see advanced…

• 1 min read
dynamic rail analysis , Static timing analysis , SI , Early Rail Analysis , ets , cadence , EDI system , Signoff Analysis , encounter digital implementation system , EPS , Signal Integrity , Cadence Encounter Power System , Digital Implementation , crosstalk , CeltIC , tapeout , design closure , encounter power system , Encounter Timing System , timing convergence , "SoC-Encounter" , blog

Digital Design

Trying to Figure Out Social Media? Ron Ploof Says "Read This First"

Left to Right: Ron Ploof, Bob Dwyer Photo Credit: brillianthue "As a New Media evangelist…

• 6 min read
Facebook Twitter , New Media , EDA , Social Media , Ron Ploof

Verification

Is The Industry Ready For Mainstream Adoption of Higher Abstraction?

I was recently part of an industry wide interview conducted by Clive "Max" Maxfield…

• 1 min read
TLM , System Design and Verification , SystemC

RF Engineering

NPORT S-Parameter Model Enhancements

In MMSIM 7.2, two new parameters have been added to the Spectre nport primitive:…

• 1 min read
Circuit simulation , MMSIM71 , RFIC , Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , MMSIM , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , spectreRF , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design , harmonic balance

Verification

Adam’s Verification Top 10 In '10

I love top 10 lists. Not so much for the drama of the count-down, but for arguments…

• 3 min read
performance , SystemVerilog , Real Value Modeling , OVM ML , Functional Verification , CPF , OVM , OVM e , Incisive , OVM SV , e , Mixed-Signal , Simulation acceleration , SystemC , VHDL , IES , OVM SC

Verification

Android System Verification Part 5

In the previous article I introduced the use of Specman for generating sequences…

• 2 min read
GPS , android , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Reflection?

What's good about it is that we don't need to reflect occasionally. We can reflect…

• 1 min read
PCB design , reflection , Allegro

Verification

Formalizing Multilanguage Mixology For e Users

Historically it’s been very common for e users to have to mix other programming languages…

• 4 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , TLM , methodology , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , OVM e , C , e , multi-language , SystemC , sequences , ESL , Matlab , IES-XL

Verification

Happy Holidays - OVM on The Path to Standardization

I've just heard that the Accellera VIP Technical Subcommittee (TSC) has voted to…

• 1 min read
uvm , methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , Accellera , verification

Verification

Imitation Is The Sincerest Form Of Flattery - We Thank You!

Let me start by sharing some recent blog activity showing competitors doing some…

• 2 min read
System Design and Verification , Incisive , Incisive Software Extensions , C-to-Silicon Compiler , ESL
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