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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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Life at Cadence

The Returnship Journey — Part 1

Life happens! Depending on the circumstances, we must sometimes press the “pause…

• 3 min read
inclusion , GPTW , WorkLifeBalance , WomenAtCadence , returnship

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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: 电磁分析魔法化

我们为什么要在virtuoso RF 解决方案中进行EM Analysis？ 如果您看过魔术表演，就会知道它就像魔术师一样可以把不可能变成可能。 如果您曾因为繁琐的EM集成而烦恼…

• 1 min read
EM Analysis , Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso New Design Platform , video , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , Electromagnetic analysis , RF design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Chinese blogs

Learning and Support

Looking to Learn About Virtuoso ADE Product Suite? We’ve Got a Webinar for You!

Interested in the Virtuoso ADE Product Suite? Cool! We’ve got a great webinar for…

• less than a min read
training , Virtuoso ADE , webinar , Virtuoso , Cadence support

Digital Design

Voltus Voice: A New Blog Series to Discover the “Power” Within

Voltus Voice is a blog series aimed at showcasing the diverse Voltus technologies…

• 3 min read
Silicon Signoff and Verification , electromigration , Voltus IC Power Integrity Solution , video , Power Integrity , training , Voltus , Digital Implementation , Power Sigonff , design closure , IR drop , RAKs , EMIR

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Did Your Search for Constraints Fail?

While using the Cadence Liberate Characterization solution or the Liberate Variety…

• 4 min read
search bound , Liberate Variety , library characterization , glitch metric , Library Characterization Tidbit , Digital Implementation , final state threshold , troubleshooting , Liberate , Constraints , Liberate Characterization Portfolio , glitch tolerance

カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル

Start Your Engines: UNLでアナログ・ブロックにSpectreネットリストを生成する理由と方法

Cadence® Spectre® AMS Designer は、高いパフォーマンスのミックスシグナル・シミュレーション・システムです。複数エンジンの使用や、さまざまなプラットフォームから実行できる機能により…

• less than a min read
AMS Designer , Mixed Signal Verification , Unified Netlister , mixed signal , japanese blog , analog/mixed signal , AMS UNL

Breakfast Bytes

Yesterday Was Tau Day

You probably know that 3/14 is Pi Day, since pi (π) starts 3.14 and so matches the…

• 5 min read
PI , tau day , tau

Verification

Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback (part 2)

In recent blogs - specman-callback-coverage-api and improving-tests-efficiency-using…

• 3 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , e language

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 28th June 2020

https://youtu.be/va13w0mgAco Made "under the sea" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Make…

• less than a min read
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Digital Design

Curious About the Newly Released Innovus Implementation System v20.1?

We recently released the Innovus v20.1 software and you might be interested in learning…

• less than a min read
Digital Implementation , Innovus , Floorplanning and Prototyping

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Return Path Analysis: Find and Visualize Return Path…

Return path issues are common and difficult to diagnose in complex printed circuit…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB design , Allegro

Life at Cadence

My Life at Cadence Video Series: Komal Gujarathi

Cadence recently interviewed five of our amazing women engineers for a new video…

• less than a min read
inclusion , Culture , STEM , cadence , my life at cadence , women

Breakfast Bytes

Cornami and Trusted Data

Recently, I wrote about Fully Homomorphic Encryption (FHE from now on) which I think…

• 7 min read
fhe , Wally Rhines , fully homomorphic encryption , cornami

Academic Network

Digital Design and Signoff Training Deep Dive: Part 3 – Silicon and Signoff Veri…

We’re excited to share the last blog for the Digital Design and Signoff Training…

• 3 min read
Europractice , Digital Design and Signoff , Cadence Academic Network , CMC Microsystems , online training , university program

カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル

Start Your Engines: AMSD Flex – 最新のSpectreの機能にすぐにアクセスできます！

Cadence® Spectre® AMS Designer は、高いパフォーマンスのミックスシグナル・シミュレーション・システムです。複数エンジンの使用や、さまざまなプラットフォームから実行できる機能により…

• less than a min read
mixed signal design , AMS Designer , AMSD , Mixed Signal Verification , AMSD Flex Mode , japanese blog

Breakfast Bytes

Under the Hood of Genus

From time to time people ask how EDA tools work under the hood. I think the question…

• 8 min read
Genus , featured , computational software , Synthesis , Placement

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity：您的版图设计是否结构正确 ？

您的设计是否结构正确？阅读此博客，以了解在设计过程中，如何使用宽度间距模式（WSPs），实现结构正确的设计。 WSPs 的追踪线，为快速创建连接线提供指导。定义WSPs以捕获宽度和间距规则…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Advanced Node , Layout Suite , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , usability , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , ux

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: How to Fix Padstacks that Aren’t Showing All Their Layers

We talked a few months ago regarding why flip-chip padstacks are single layer pads…

• 2 min read
Allegro Package Designer

Breakfast Bytes

Computational Digital Software

Cadence has been using the term "computational software" to unify many of the algorithms…

• 6 min read
Genus , ml , Tempus , computational software , machine learning , Innovus , digital full flow
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