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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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Questions for the DAC Pavilion Panel on multicore design

As I wrote yesterday, I’ll be chairing a Multicore panel at DAC in Anaheim on Monday…

• 1 min read

Verification

Cadence Contributes ESL Methodology To TSMC Reference Flow 11

The EDA360 industry vision document shows how growing complexity and application…

• 3 min read
ECO , OIP , C to Silicon , TSMC , system , ESL , verification

SoC and IP

Don’t miss the multicore Pavilion panel discussion at DAC on Monday, June 14

I’ll be moderating the Pavilion panel titled “The Multiplier Effect: Developing Multi…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Denali to demo new PureSpec 2.0 verification-management technology at DAC 2010

This news is a bit far afield for Denali’s Memory Blog, but many of our blog readers…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Making SSDs, the TweakTown video: See how A-DATA makes SSDs based on SandForce SF…

TweakTown’s crew visited A-DATA’s manufacturing floor during Computex in Taiwan and…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

ST Microelectronics’ SPEAr1300 Embedded Processor family employs Denali Databahn…

Last month, this blog described the new SPEAr1300 Embedded Processor family from…

• less than a min read

Verification

Accelerating Metric-Driven Verification With “Hotswap” on Verification Computing…

For a while now, Cadence has been providing leading verification solutions and methodologies…

• 1 min read
emulator , DAC , Acceleration , Palladium , hotswap , Emulation , hot swap , metric , metric-driven verification , MDV

Analog/Custom Design

ARM And Cadence Get To The “Core” Of Mixed-Signal Design

An increasing number of analog and mixed-signal designs in automotive, power management…

• 4 min read
Cortex , analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso , Cortex-M0 , mixed signal , ARM

Verification

Specman, e, and EDA360

The EDA industry is all abuzz over the new vision paper "EDA360 - The Way Forward…

• 5 min read
SystemVerilog , DAC , AMS , uvm , Specman , IP , HW/SW , methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , VIP , EDA360 , Mixed Signal Verification , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Incisive , e , OVM-e , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , ClubT , Aspect Oriented Programming , SystemC , ISX , MDV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , VHDL , ESL , AOP , Matlab , IES-XL , Trailblazer

SoC and IP

MemCon 2010 agenda posted. Your only problem: Which free track do you need to attend…

We’ve just posted the agenda for MemCon 2010. If you touch semiconductor memory in…

• 2 min read

SoC and IP

Apple controls 20% of NAND Flash market with iPhone and iPad says DRAMeXchange

With Apple fervor pheromones still heavy in the air from yesterday’s introduction…

• less than a min read

Verification

India Takes The Lead By Hosting The First Two “ClubTs” in 2010

Specman/ e users in India were very excited to see the first two ClubT events hosted…

• 4 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , validation , e , team specman , ClubT , AOP , IES-XL

Verification

System Development – What To See At DAC 2010

The EDA360 vision paper specifies key System Realization challenges. Embedded software…

• 6 min read
DAC , cadence , ITRI , system realization , OSCI , Calypto , TSMC , Gary Smith , Imperas , SystemC , ARM , wind river , HLS , DAC 2010

SoC and IP

INDILINX reveals use of its Barefoot SSD controller in HLDS’ HyDrive optical/solid…

This blog has twice written up the newly announced HyDrive optical/solid-state hybrid…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Denali’s never-ending list of parties expands to Flash Memory Summit: August 18

Seems like the list of Denali parties for Summer 2010 never ends. Denali is heavily…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Verification tips and GLOBALFOUNDRIES low-power process to be discussed in Denali…

Going to DAC? Interested in making your verification processes more effective? Interested…

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SoC and IP

Last call for Denali’s DAC party: Anaheim, June 14

It’s the Denali DAC party for 2010. The big one. With the bells and whistles. With…

• less than a min read

Verification

Bloggers and Journalists and Gadflies, Oh My!

There has been quite a bit of discussion out in the blogosphere about the similarities…

• 3 min read
DAC , Functional Verification , EDA , Blogging , blogs

SoC and IP

An inconvenient truth about using DDR3 SDRAM for embedded designs

DDR (double data rate) memory chips mounted on DIMMs have long been the mainstay…

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