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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 Samuel
• 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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TSMC: Zero Excursion, Zero Defect

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, JK Wang, the SVP of fab operations, talked…

• 3 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Coming Soon to a Blog Near You…

What is new in the Cadence® SiP Layout and APD tools? Is there reason to get excited…

• 1 min read
Digital SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , Allegro Package Designer , SiP Layout

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Filtering Plots!

If you're a regular reader of the Virtuosity series, you'll have seen a few blogs…

• 2 min read
ADE Explorer , plotting , plot , Filtering , ViVA , Virtuosity , ADE Blog Series , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC: Specialty Technologies

What is a "specialty technology"? Kevin Zhang, the VP of business development, told…

• 5 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

Verification

Cadence at the Red Hat Summit--Come See Xcelium in Action!

The Red Hat Summit is coming around to Boston this year, and it’s only a few short…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , red hat summit , xcelium , event

Verification

Cadence at the HOST Symposium: Come See What We're Doing!

The HOST Symposium is returning for its 12 th year, and general registration is open…

• 1 min read
host , Functional Verification , symposium , event

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Gwennap's Deep Dive into Deep Learning

At the recent Linley Spring Microprocessor Conference, Linley Gwennap kicked off…

• 4 min read
deep learning , Linley

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - SIMD Capability of B10 B20 and Some Associated Vector Processing…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Pierre-Xavier Thomas shows some of the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , ConnX

Analog/Custom Design

Spectre Tech Tips: Measuring Noise in Digital Circuits

As a designer, verification engineer, or CAD expert, you use Spectre APS for analyzing…

• 4 min read
edge delay , timeaverage , ADE Explorer , sampled jitter , sampled , pnoise , spectreRF , Virtuoso , direct plot form , full spectrum pnoise , edge phase noise , sampled phase , edge crossing

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR3 and ICADVM18.1 ISR3 production releases are now available for download…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Space-based Router , Interactive and Assisted Routing , Virtuoso RF , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Layout , Virtuoso , cadenceblogs , IC Release Blog , New in EDA , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

Breakfast Bytes

Tesla Drives into Chip Design

I've said for a couple of years that high-end automotive companies are going to have…

• 4 min read
Automotive , tesla

Verification

Specman Linting and the all_unique Method

Sorting according to pointers- why? One of the best practices that you need to…

• 4 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Andy Bechtolsheim: 85 Slides in 25 Minutes, Even the Keynote Went at 400Gbps

Andy Bechtolsheim likes to go fast. He famously had to rush off to a meeting but…

• 5 min read
CDNLive , CDNLive Silicon Valley

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 在IC6.1.7 / ICADV12.3 ISR期间，我在Virtuoso可视化和分析以及ADE中遇到了什么?

也许你一直被困在一个使用旧版Virtuoso 的项目上，也许你只是订阅了这些博客，或者你是Virtuoso的新用户，也许你不知道有哪些新的酷炫功能 在 IC6.1…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , ICADV12.3 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso , ViVA , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

了解AMI与IBIS之后需要知道：如何轻松完成DDR5设计

本文转翻译自Cadence "Breakfast Bytes" 专栏作者Paul McLellan文章 "AMI for DDR5 Made Easy" 。 上一篇…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ddr5 , DDR4 , AMI , 均衡 , IBIS , IBIS-AMI , 中文 , SerDes , Sigrity

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Cdsenv Editor – Simplifying Virtuoso Customization

Customization is the need of the day. From picking an ice cream flavor to outfitting…

• 4 min read
Cdsenv Editor , Virtuoso Environment Variables , ICADVM18.1 , cdsenv , cdsenv variables , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Design Environment , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Roadmap

Earlier this week it was the TSMC Technology Symposium. Here's my first post, summarizing…

• 4 min read
TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Accelerate Your Thermal Aware PI Design?

In modern electronic systems, there may be tens to hundreds of DC rail voltages used…

• 2 min read
PCB , DC , PI , DesignCon , PDN , Power Integrity , OptimizePI , DesignCon 2019 , PowerTree , electrical-thermal co-simulation , Sigrity , thermal , PowerDC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers - Aerials and Bails: How to Hide the Design Path in Art File

Before manufacturing, PCB fabricators analyze Gerber data to verify if it is manufacturable…

• 1 min read
Gerber , Manufacture , artwork , environment variable , Allegro PCB Editor
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