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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

Leverage System Planning to Maximize Performance of Silicon Interposer

Recently, an article was published in Chip Scale Review by Cadence product manager…

• 2 min read
SI , PI , Chip Scale Review , SiP , IC Packaging , Team Allegro , 3D IC , Kevin Rinebold , 3D-IC , Power Integrity , TSV , silicon interposer , Signal Integrity , 2.5D IC , system planning , system co-analysis , 2.5D

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About RF SiP and Data Management? Look to 16.6 and See!

The 16.6 Allegro RF SiP product has 3 major enhancements to improve your productivity…

• 2 min read
PCB , IC Packaging and SiP Design , Allegro RF SiP , SiP , IC Packaging , Allegro 16.6 , die abstracts , RF SiP , IC/package co-design , design , PCB design , Grzenia , SiP Layout , die abstract , Virtuoso SiP

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Minimize Your Mouse Clicks in IC Packaging with New Customizable Wire Bond Application…

Whether it is reducing mouse clicks, minimizing access to menus, eliminating the…

• 3 min read
package , SiP , IC Package , IC Packaging , cadence , Digital SiP design , 16.6 , IC Packaging and SiP , APD , wirebonds , Allegro Package Designer , APD 16.6 , SiP Layout , wirebonding

Analog/Custom Design

Mixed-Signal Technology Summit in Japan Provides Technology Updates

Japan’s semiconductor industry is undergoing a significant change in recent years…

• 3 min read
AMS , uvm , Virtuoso-AMS , microcontrollers , ARM Cortex M0 , mixed signal design , Mixed-Signal On Top , AMS-Designer , MS ToT , IC 6.1 , A/MS , mixed signal methodology , tech on tour , AMS Designer , analog on top , Open Access , Cortex-M , Verilog-AMS , analog , Mixed-Signal , encounter , Mixed-Signal Technology Summit , LDE , analog behavioral models , analog/mixed-signal , Virtuoso , mixed-signal book , Cortex-M0 , oa , ClioSoft , metric-driven verification , mixed signal , wreal , micro-controllers , ARM , ARM-Cortex-M , OpenAccess , Common Power Format , AMS Verification , TowerJazz , Matlab , real number

Verification

Speed Verification Turnaround by Extending Metric-Driven Verification (MDV) to T…

One of the main benefits of moving the design entry point up in abstraction from…

• 1 min read
uvm , TLM , Jack Erickson , Functional Verification , abstraction , webinar , metric-driven verification , SystemC , Watanabe , MDV , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI Setup/Audit? 16.6 has Many New Enhancements!

The Allegro PCB SI Signal Setup and Audit commands were introduced in the 16.5 release…

• 8 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , diff pairs , Allegro 16.6 , setup/audit , Signal Intregrity , SigXP UI , DRC , 16.6 , PCB Signal and power integrity , "PCB SI" , High Speed , PCB power integrity , diff pair , setup , differential pair , Signal Integrity , audit , design , Allegro PCB SI , PCB design , "PCB PI" , Grzenia , differential pairs , SI analysis and modeling , Differential Pair Support , power , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Open Cavity Design Tools for IC Packaging Now Available in 16.6

In version 16.5 of the Cadence IC package layout tools, we introduced embedded discrete…

• 3 min read
IC Package , IC Packaging , packaging , open cavity , 16.6 , IC Packaging and SiP , Allegro Package Designer , Sigrity , APD 16.6 , SiP Layout , cavity

Verification

New Product: ARM ACE Assertion-Based Verification IP (ABVIP) Available Now

Preface: on Tuesday December 11 we are giving a free a webinar on "ACE Assertion…

• 1 min read
ACE , ABV , Joerg Mueller , ABVIP , Mirit Fromovich , ACE verification , ARM , AMBA4

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Part 5, Many Ways to Sum a List

In the most recent posts of SKILL for the Skilled (see previous post here ) we looked…

• 5 min read
Team SKILL , Jim Newton , summing , Virtuoso , Lisp , SKILL++ , sumlist , SKILL

Verification

Techniques to Boost Incisive Simulation Performance

Functional verification is the biggest challenge in delivering more complex electronic…

• 3 min read
performance , Accleration , simulation speed , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Verification

UVM e vr_ad -- Specman Read/Write Register Enhancements

If you are a Specman vr_ad user, you probably know that register access is implemented…

• 1 min read
AF , uvm , Specman , Functional Verification , vr_ad , Register Package , e language , UVMe , register enhancements

Verification

Optimizing ARM Based Designs for Low Power using Emulation

The month November goes to the Brits, no question. Not only did the James Bond movie…

• 5 min read
ESL Market , Nufront , FPGA Based Prototyping , Verification Computing Platform , Virtual System Platform , Peng Wang , cadence , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Dynamic Power Analysis , System Design and Verification , System Development Suite , embedded software , Palladium XP , Emulation , ARM , Schirrmeister , low power optimization

RF Engineering

MMSIM 12.1 SpectreRF -- Preview of Coming nport Attractions! Part 2

Greetings, MMSIM 12.1 contains many new features to aid RF designers. Many of these…

• 2 min read
nport , RF , RF Simulation , analog/RF , Circuit simulation , Wilsey , Virtuoso Spectre , HB , Spectre RF , spectre spectreRF , ADE-L , Analog Simulation , MMSIM , nport settings , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , analog , ADE , RF spectre spectreRF , spectreRF , Spectre , harmonic balance , simulation

Verification

Need e/Specman Expertise ASAP? Free Training and Verification Alliance Partners Are…

Recently an EDA industry observer relayed some Specmaniacs' concerns about satisfying…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , Hannes Froehlich , Functional Verification , MOOC , Udacity , training , VA Partners , verification alliance , e language

Digital Design

The Case for the Tiny Testcase

I often joke with customers that, although I realize they have to work on large designs…

• 2 min read
debug , tiny testcase , testcase , Test , encounter , Digital Implementation , small testcase , test case , Bob Dwyer , verification

Analog/Custom Design

Discussing Mixed Signal -- New On-Line Forum, and 3-Day Training Classes

Are you working in the area of mixed signal? Then you may want to exchange information…

• 1 min read
ITDB , mixed-signal training , Andreas Lenz , analog on top , CPF , Mixed-Signal , encounter , Virtuoso , mixed signal , mixed-signal forum , OpenAccess , forum , Cadence Community

Analog/Custom Design

Cadence Has Significant Presence in ARM TechCon 2012 and Worldwide ARM Technical…

The recently concluded ARM TechCon 2012 , the annual event for ARM users (including…

• 2 min read
ARM Techcon , EDI , chipestimate , ARM Cortex M0 , AMS Designer , ARM Technology Symposium , 20nm , 14nm , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso , mixed-signal book , Cortex-M0 , mixed signal , mixed-signal design , ARM , ARM-Cortex-M

Verification

CDNLive paper: High-level Synthesis on Video Processing ASIC

The proceedings from the recent CDNLive! event in Israel recently became available…

• 1 min read
High-Level Synthesis , video processor , Jack Erickson , CDNLive , System Design and Verification , Freescale , rtl compiler , C-to-Silicon , Israel , SystemC , CDNLive! , DAC 2012 , HLS , ESL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About APD’s Shape Shorting? You’ll Need the 16.6 Release to See!

In some designsflows, you need to connect two plane shapes on the same net, but on…

• 5 min read
PCB , IC Packaging and SiP Design , blind vias , IC Packaging , Allegro GUI , inset vias , Allegro 16.6 , packaging , Digital SiP design , layer stacks , High Speed , shape shorting , APD , IC/package co-design , Allegro Package Designer , advanced package designer , via , design , vias , PCB design , Grzenia , shorting vias
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