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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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Library Characterization Tidbits: Creating Statistical Libraries for Standard Cells…

Let’s read how you can use the Liberate Variety statistical characterization solution…

• 3 min read
local variation , statistical characterization , AOCV , characterization , liberate trio , mismatch analysis , Liberate Variety , Monte Carlo , standard cells , global variation , lvf , Liberate , Liberate Characterization Portfolio

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 针对高级工艺节点器件级布线的工具 – Generate Trunks

Trunk Generation 创新功能，不仅实现干线自动化，提高生产效率，还提供完整的Pin to Trunk 流程的自定义选项.

• less than a min read
Trunk generation , Interactive Routing , Chinese blog , Pin to Trunk , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Space-based Router , Layout EXL , Layout Suite , trunk creation , Virtuoso , Generate Trunk , EM Trunk Optimization , Custom IC Design , space based router , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

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Photonics Summit: Lumerical-Cadence Flow

James Pond, the CTO of Lumerical, wrapped up the Photonics Summit recently. He started…

• 3 min read
curvycore , Lumerical , silicon photonics , Virtuoso , photonics

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 针对高阶工艺节点的器件级布线工具 — Finish Trunk

本博客是该系列博客的第一篇，将介绍Finish Trunk 命令，如何实现器件级的布线需求，它并不算是新功能，但可被认为是又一突破性功能.

• 1 min read
Trunk Trimming , Chinese blog , Pin to Trunk , Create Wire , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Space-based Router , layout XL , Layout Suite , Trunk Extending , Layout L , Finish Trunk , EM Trunk Optimization , Custom IC Design

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"If You Can Get Your Ship into Orbit, You're Halfway to Anywhere"

I planned on using the 50th anniversary of Apollo 12 as a hook for this blog, but…

• 7 min read
rocket equation , space travel

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Search Faster and Smarter in Release 17.4-2019

Allegro and OrCAD 17.4-2019 products come with the latest version of CDNSHelp. In…

• 4 min read
17.4 , Search , Cadence Help , 17.4-2019 , OrCAD , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: The Third Dimension of 17.4 IC Packaging

If you’ve run the 17.4 release, you have probably seen two 3D rendering tools – 3D…

• 3 min read
17.4 , APD , 3d model

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence to Acquire AWR

Yesterday Cadence announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire AWR from National…

• 3 min read
RF , awr , Virtuoso

Breakfast Bytes

The Photonics Summit 2019: Hybrid Lasers

Recently, Cadence held the fourth Photonics Summit and Workshop over two days. I…

• 5 min read
Lumerical , silicon photonics , photonics

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Experience the Power of OrCAD with Its Trial Version

OrCAD Trial 2019 is out. Download and use the full power of the latest release of…

• 2 min read
17.4 , Capture CIS , TRIAL , PSPICE , PCB Editor , OrCAD

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Materially Good Changes in 17.4

You should be getting used to the new 17.4 release at this point. I am willing to…

• 4 min read
17.4 , APD

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Installing on Windows is as Easy as Updating Apps on your Smart Ph…

Did you know that you can download and install available Cadence Allegro and OrCAD…

• 1 min read
17.4 , install , 17.4-2019 , Download Manager , OrCAD , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Sharing Expressions between Pre- and Post-Layout Simulations

This has been an age old problem, you extract your design and get a DSPF file, then…

• 2 min read
ADE Explorer , Rapid Adoption Kit , DSPF , ADE , postlayout , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

版本升级：Sigrity 2019、Allegro/OrCAD 17.4现已发布

space Sigrity 2019主要性能升级 新系统级分析工具：Celsius Thermal Solver 系统级电热协同仿真 Sigrity 2019版本引入Cadence…

• 1 min read
PCB , Chinese blog , SPB 17.4 , Sigrity 2019 , PSPICE , 中文 , OrCAD , 软件升级 , Sigrity , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Implementing Arm Hercules with Digital Full Flow

At Arm TechCon, there was a joint presentation by Arm, Cadence, and Samsung Foundry…

• 3 min read
Genus , hercules , Samsung , Innovus , ARM , full flow

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Basics of Standard Cell Characterization and M…

Characterization of standard cell libraries using the Liberate Characterization solution…

• 2 min read
tidbits , SPICE netlist , Standard Cell , characterization , Liberty Files , Spectre , Library Characterization Tidbit , Digital Implementation , Characterization Solution , Liberate , Inside-View , Liberate Characterization Portfolio , Rapid Adoption Kits , ECSM , RAKs , CCS , Model Files

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2nd WOSET Workshop on Open-Source EDA

During ICCAD earlier in the month, there was the 2nd WOSET, which stands for Workshop…

• 4 min read
open source eda , openroad , woset

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: A Cross-Section of Changes

While 17.4 has only been amongst you for a month, now, I’ve had a few questions regarding…

• 3 min read
APD

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Power of Information – Quickly Getting Started with Allegro and OrCAD…

The Allegro and OrCAD 7.4 release is now available for download and installation…

• 1 min read
COS , System Capture , IC Packaging , Cadence Online Support , PSPICE , PCB Editor , Design Entry HDL , EDM , 17.4-2019
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