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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR3 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR3 production release is now available for download.

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IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog

Corporate News

Cadence Tapes Out UCIe IP Solution at 64G Speeds on TSMC N3P Technology

Delivering the next wave of chiplet innovation, Cadence has successfully taped out…

Corporate
• 2 min read
news story , ucie , featured , chiplets , TSMC N3P

Cadence Japan

業界初、エッジAI・AI搭載PC向けeUSB2V2エンドツーエンドデモをCESで公開

CES 2026で業界初のeUSB2V2エンドツーエンドデモを公開。AI PCやエッジAI向けの省電力・高速伝送を実現する最新USB技術の詳細をご紹介します。

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured

Corporate News

Industry’s First End-to-End eUSB2V2 Demo for Edge AI and AI PCs at CES

Since their debut in 2023, AI PCs have taken the market by storm. Gartner projects…

Corporate
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news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured
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Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 2

My last blog entry began a series using quotes from Hollywood movies to illustrate…

• 2 min read
vPlan , verification planning , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

SoC and IP

HP’s memristor finds a commercial semiconductor vendor: Hynix

The rumor at the recent Flash Memory Summit held earlier this month was that HP was…

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SoC and IP

Toshiba 24nm, 64-Gbit NAND Flash: Just a silly nanometer shorter

Toshiba announced today that it has initiated mass production of NAND Flash memories…

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SoC and IP

17 SSDs reviewed by Tom’s Hardware

We’re still at the stage where there can be appreciable differences in the performance…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Huawei talks Smart Memory at Hot Chips 22: “The only practical solution”

Last week saw the 22nd Hot Chips conference, held at held Stanford University, and…

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SoC and IP

A non-exhaustive list of 150 SSD vendors

A recent check of the Yahoo! Finance boards showed some skepticism about my previous…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

PCM (now with carbon nanotubes!) programming current drops two orders of magnitu…

A fascinating Masters thesis written by Feng Xiong details the fabrication and testing…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Seagate and Samsung to jointly develop enterprise-class SSD controller -- a little…

A bit more than a week ago, HDD leader Seagate and NAND Flash leader Samsung jointly…

• 1 min read

Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 1

True story: this series of blog posts is inspired by a dream. I recently gave a presentation…

• 3 min read
vPlan , verification planning , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

SoC and IP

8 key takeaways for system design teams from the Flash Memory Summit

Cadence’s Senior Manager of Technical Communications and a longtime EDA observer…

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Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Outputs Setup in ADE XL

Continuing on our exploration of ADE XL (see here and here for previous articles…

• 5 min read
IC 6.1 , Analog Simulation , analog , ADE , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ADE-GXL , ADE-XL , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Capture Objects Look and Feel? You Can Change Them in SPB16.3!

The SPB16.3 release of Allegro Design Entry CIS (known as Capture) has some cool…

• 2 min read
"capture CIS" , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , Capture CIS' , Design Entry CIS , OrCAD Capture , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , SPB , design , Design Entry , PCB Capture , Schematic

SoC and IP

Kingston DDR3 RAM cracks 3Gtransfers/sec barrier, achieves 3.068 Gtransfers/sec amid…

Mix liquid nitrogen and Kingston’s HyperX DDR3-2333 SDRAM modules and you get 3068…

• 1 min read

Digital Design

CDNLive! Silicon Valley Abstract Deadline Extended 1 Week

The deadline for submitting abstracts to CDNLive! Silicion Valley 2010 has been extended…

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Verification

System Realization Webinars Start Sept 8th

Starting September 8th Cadence will be hosting a series of webinars about various…

• 2 min read
TLM , webinars , system realization , Calypto , Imperas , CircuitSutra , XtremeEDA , ESL

SoC and IP

OCZ accentuates the positive (SSDs) and eliminates the negative (low-margin DRAM…

PC add-on vendor OCZ has announced today that its future is in SSDs and high-speed…

• 1 min read

Verification

Performance Tips and Tricks: Another Specman Performance Series

Building on the great success of Efrat Shneydor's previous blog series, Performance…

• 1 min read
performance , Specman , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , EDA , e , team specman , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP

Verification

Report On Chelsio’s DAC Case Study In Formal Verification

As the leader of the Formal Verification R&D team, I'm always fascinated by the many…

• 2 min read
DAC , ABV , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Incisive , IFV

SoC and IP

Embedded SSDs: SanDisk’s iSSD puts 64Gbyte SATA SSD on a BGA device measuring only…

The convenience of SSDs that look like HDDs is that they can seamlessly plug and…

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