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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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Virtuosity: Auto Device Array - A One-Stop-Shop for Modgens

在本博客中，我将讨论以下这样的功能，一个个人喜爱的功能- the Auto Device Array 一个简单，直观且功能强大的界面，用于创建和自定义Modgens…

• less than a min read
automatic routing , Chinese blog , Modgen On Canvas , Automated Device Placement , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Advanced Release , Automated Device-Level Placement , MODGEN , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , automation , Automatic Placement , module generation , Auto Device P&R , Layout EXL , APR , Auto P&R , modgen stacks , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Placement , Custom IC Design , modgens , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Count Your Fingers (Without Using Your Toes)

Let’s talk about wire bonding today! More specifically, the unique labels assigned…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer

Breakfast Bytes

Artificial Intelligence...and Artificial Performance

Do you know what this is? It's a benchmark. The Ordnance Survey (OS) of Britain created…

• 9 min read
deep learning , tops , gflops , neural net , Tensilica , dna150 , tops/mm2 , dna100 , tops/w , neural network

Academic Network

Digital Design and Signoff Training Deep Dive: Part 1 – Synthesis and Test

This blog series will the break down the top 15 Online Training courses among students…

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

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Thinking Outside the Chip: Overcoming RFIC and RF Module…

' Virtuoso Meets Maxwell' is a blog series aimed at exploring the capabilities and…

• 2 min read
ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso RF , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , RF design , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC: N7, N6, N5

TSMC has such a large market-share of the foundry business that their roadmap is…

• 8 min read
n5 , 3nm , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , TSMC OIP , n7 , n6 , 6nm , 5nm , 7nm , EUV

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: TILP! 什么是TILP?

过去的38年，我一直致力于IC版图设计！在业内不断推出Cadence的新产品，让我积累了宝贵的经验。在这篇博客中，我要谈谈另一创新产品--Virtuoso RF解决方案及其基本概念…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , VRF , PCells , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , virtuoso system design platform , Technology independent , TILP , Multi-Technology Simulation , Custom IC , VMM

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The Five Waves: AI, 5G, Cars, Clouds, IoT

In Cadence's recent earnings call, Lip-Bu Tan, our CEO, talked about the five waves…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , hyperscale datacenter , featured , industrial , cloud , cloud datacenter

Verification

Improving Tests Efficiency Using Coverage Callback

When you go to the store, you walk until you get there, stop, get your groceries…

• 7 min read
Specman , coverage , Functional Verification , Specman e , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 31st May 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in "Paris" (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Memorial Day Tuesday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

First US Manned Launch Since 2011...Not Yet

On Wednesday, SpaceX and NASA planned the first launch from the USA of a manned spacecraft…

• 6 min read
spacex , space , NASA

カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル

Virtuosity: Automated Device Placement and Routing - デバイスグループとトポロジーの特定

前回に続き、Virtuoso® 自動デバイスレベル配置配線シリーズの2回目のBlogをご覧ください。 前回は、アナログとフルカスタムデザインでの完全自動型のデバイスレベル配置配線ソリューションの必要性についてお話しました…

• less than a min read
Advanced Node , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , japanese blog , Custom IC

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Virtuosity: Virtuoso の自動デバイスレベル配置配線ソリューションのご紹介

半導体産業は、IC デザイン向けの電子設計自動化ソフトウェア(EDA)に長期に渡り依存してきました。長年に渡る半導体産業の進化に合わせて、EDA ツールも進化してきました…

• less than a min read
Virtuoso , Virtuosity , japanese blog , Custom IC , advance node

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Overriding the One-Sigma Rule of Liberty for LVF…

As per Liberty specification, Liberty Variation Format (LVF) modeling is always done…

• 5 min read
tidbits , Liberty Variation Format , LVF modeling , Sigma , sigma factor , variation parameters , Liberate Variety , library characterization , Application Notes , Library Characterization Tidbit , Digital Implementation , Liberate Characterization Portfolio , library validation

Breakfast Bytes

5G: Connecting All the Things

Over the last few weeks, each Thursday has been Telecom Thursday (like Taco Tuesday…

• 8 min read
5G , RF , featured , IoT , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive Ethernet

Automotive networking is perhaps the latest application area for Ethernet. But Ethernet…

• 6 min read
Automotive , Design IP , Ethernet

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Coupling Analysis: Crosstalk Mitigation without …

Just as social distancing minimizes human contact to prevent the spread of disease…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB design , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Keep Fan-Out Routing Aligned During ECOs

When a change comes in from your IC design partner, it can be met with trepidation…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer

Breakfast Bytes

Simon Butler's Fireside Chat with Jim Hogan

Way back in what now seems like the distant past, but was early March, I wrote a…

• 8 min read
Design IP , Simon Butler , Methodics , Jim Hogan , esd alliance
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