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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

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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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The Future's So Bright You've Gotta Wear Shades

The Cadence website looks different, doesn't it? We are obviously in the middle of…

• 2 min read
computational software , website , intelligent system design , branding

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Common Goal for One Flow, Acquisitions Strengthen RF Flo…

Seven months ago, I pointed out the ongoing need for change, or revolution, in high…

• 3 min read
integrand , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso New Design Platform , awr , Virtuoso Layout EXL , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Advanced Node , Virtuoso RF , Electromagnetic analysis , EMX , RF design , microwave office , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , acquisitions

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International Women's Day and Mentoring Women at Cadence

March 8 is International Women's Day, this year falling on a Sunday. When you read…

• 5 min read
International Women's Day , mentoring

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Sunday Brunch Video for 8th March 2020

https://youtu.be/oAtYdiwqPIw Made in front of my TV (camera Carey Guo) Monday: FCC…

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sunday brunch

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

极致PCB设计全流程 | 技巧一：如何设置参数定制最佳视窗

设计图纸导入 之后，我们即将启动PCB设计，如何使我们的设计过程能更加得心应手？ 请紧跟我们的学习内容，本期将分享设计工具的参数设置，使我们更好掌控设计（演示工具为Allegro…

• less than a min read
PCB , Chinese blog , training , PCB设计 , 中文 , 直播网课 , online training , Allegro , 专家培训

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Exploring Intuitive Means to Characterize Large…

Let’s review a key characteristic feature of Cadence Liberate AMS Mixed-Signal Characterization…

• 3 min read
Liberate AMS , video , library generation , pin capacitance , Mixed-Signal , library characterization , shell libraries , Liberate Characterization Portfolio , Liberty , Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Five Steps to IC-Driven Package Design

They say Moore's law is slowing. It may be slowing but it is still running - it has…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Part 2

Learn more about Cadence Education Services with this blog, which includes a list…

• 4 min read
digital badges , training bytes , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary , Virtuoso Layout

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Razor Blades, Banking, and Antitrust

One person whose opinions I value is Ben Thompson of Stratechery. He produces a daily…

• 11 min read
ftc , stratechery , antitrust

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Bending the Flex Boards

When you design a rigid-flex board, the focus is, of course, on the bend. Your design…

• 3 min read
Allegro PCB Editor

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RSAC: Motherhood and Apple Pie...and Breaking into a Prison

There is always an interesting sounding presentation at RSA that looks like it might…

• 6 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa

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From Bootstrapped Startup to Profitability—with Lunch

Before I rejoined Cadence, I did a fair bit of writing for SemiWiki. One of the sponsoring…

• 5 min read
Jim Hogan , esd alliance

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FCC Moves to Clear C-Band for 5G

Last week the FCC approved $9.7B to quickly clear the C-band for 5G. This could be…

• 7 min read
5G , fcc , mobile

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

极致PCB设计全流程 I 基础一：设计图纸导入

PCB设计启动，原理图、结构图的设计信息导入PCB设计工具时，您是否会有以下疑惑： 执行命令时，每个选项有什么意义？ DXF、IDX…这些文件都是什么？ 如何选择才能保证快速高质量完成PCB设计…

• less than a min read
PCB , Chinese blog , training , webinar , PCB设计 , 中文 , 直播网课 , online training , Allegro

Life at Cadence

Black History Is American History

“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it…

• 6 min read
Insights on Culture , inclusion , Culture , STEM , Black History Month 2020 , diversity

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Designing Radios: Integrand

Yesterday, in my post Designing Radios and Radar: AWR , I discussed the acquisition…

• 3 min read
5G , RF , integrand , awr , Virtuoso RF

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Masten Space Systems: Reactive Flow and Heat Transfer Optimization for Reusable …

Authors: Allan Grosvenor, Aerodynamics Lead, Masten Space Systems, USA - Jean-Charles…

• 4 min read
CFD , CFD Applications

Analog/Custom Design

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

Hello everybody! I'm back with a new blog on Modgens. In this blog, I'm going to…

• 4 min read
Modgen On Canvas , MODGEN , APR Modgen , Advanced Node , auto device array , Layout EXL , Analog Layout Automation , ada , Analog Layout , Custom IC Design , modgens , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

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Designing Radios and Radar: AWR

As you probably know already, Cadence recently acquired AWR from National Instruments…

• 4 min read
microwave , integrand , AXIEM , awr design environemnt , visual system simulator , awr , RF design , microwave office
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