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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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RF Engineering

Analyzing Distortion With Spectre RF

Greetings, In the previous appends, we looked at using Shooting Newton Periodic Steady…

• 3 min read
Spectre RF , RF design , pss , FFT , Distortion

Digital Design

Encounter How-To: Selecting Objects By Pointer With dbGet And dbSelectObj

I just got back from a trip to California where I met with a couple of customers…

• 3 min read
database access , dbGet , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation

Verification

A Holiday Gift For Verification Projects Adopting MDV

Submitted By MDV Team Member – John Nehls Architect and Team Lead for MDV Solutions…

• 3 min read
workshops , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Enterprise Manager , MDV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The SPB16.3 Release? It's Here - Download It now!

The SPB16.3 release is now available (actually, it was available last week from the…

• 2 min read
Virtual Conference , SPB 16.3 , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Are You Playing with a Full Deck?

A professional gambler confidently place bets because she know the odds, but she…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , CPF , OVM , Low-Power , e , SoC

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: IC 6.1.4 (VSE L)

By now, you've surely heard the news. And if you haven't yet, you have now. Virtuoso…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

Verification

Android System Verification Part 4

Welcome to Part 4 of Android System Verification. If you are just joining make sure…

• 9 min read
android , System Design and Verification , C program

Verification

1st Anniversary Of The Team Specman Blog!

Specmaniacs rejoice: today is the 1st anniversary of the launch of this blog!!! To…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , e , CFS Vision , Aspect Oriented Programming , sequences , FOSS , eRM , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , AOP , OVMWorld , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The SPB16.3 Virtual Conference? The Doors are Still Open!

What a terrific event last Wednesday! The SPB16.3 Virtual Conference was attended…

• 3 min read
Virtual Conference , SPB 16.3 , Allegroro , PCB design

Verification

Specman – SimVision Interaction Tips and Tricks

[Team Specman welcomes guest blogger Alex Chudnovsky of Specman R&D] As we are…

• 1 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , simvision

System, PCB, & Package Design 

APD and SiP Layout 16.3 - Virtual-ly Amazing

On December 2, the Cadence Allegro team went live with the Cadence Allegro and OrCAD…

• less than a min read
SPB16.3 , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , Allegro 16.3 , IC Packaging and SiP , APD , CAO16.3

Verification

ARM Techcon3 Virtual Classroom

For those that read my September post about ARM Techcon3 in Santa Clara but couldn…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification , Techcon3 , ARM

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: ViVA (Part 4 of 4)

Today, we're going to take on the somewhat daunting topic of the ViVA Calculator…

• 4 min read
ViVa-XL , IC 6.1 , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Verification

Verification Planning Made Easy

Submitted By MDV Team Member - Paul Carzola Lead Consulting Engineer, Verification…

• 3 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , MDV

Verification

OVM e Scoreboard Posted on OVMWorld.org

Specmaniacs rejoice: Cadence has uploaded the OVM e Scoreboard Infrastructure Package…

• less than a min read
Specman , TLM , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , OVM e , e , OVMWorld , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Repeating Myself? With the SPB16.3 Virtual Conference, You'll Know

This is a first for me, basically writing about the same topic. But, the SPB16.3…

• less than a min read
Virtual Conference , SPB 16.3 , Allegroro , PCB design

Verification

Android System Verification - Part 3

In Part 2 of this series on Android System Verification I provided the basics on…

• 4 min read
Specman , android , System Design and Verification

Verification

New FOSS e Language Project: CFS Vision

There is a new free, open source (FOSS) e language project out there called “CFS…

• 7 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , Functional Verification , VIP , OVM e , e , CFS Vision , AMIQ , Aspect Oriented Programming , FOSS , eRM , JFreeChart , AOP , IES-XL

Verification

Verification Productivity Is Holding Back Electronic System Level Development Ad…

There is a controversy brewing in our industry, and I'm about to step into it boldly…

• 2 min read
TLM , Functional Verification , System Design and Verification , ESL
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