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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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• 4 min read
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
• 4 min read
news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured
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What's Good About Support Service And Design Bureau Providers? AcAe Can Help!

I usually discuss our SPB solution technical capabilities in my weekly blogs, but…

• 2 min read
PCB , design bureau , AcAe , Layout , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

When Less Is More, Part 1: Is e Really Up to 3x More Compact Than SystemVerilog?

A famous expression in the software world is that “you can only expect 10 good lines…

• 3 min read
IEEE 1647 , SystemVerilog , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , OVM , OVM e , OVM SV , e , OOP , ClubT , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP , IES-XL

Digital Design

My DATE With 3DIC Technology

This year DATE (Design, Automation and Test in Europe) was in snowy cold Dresden…

• 3 min read
DATE , CSV , 3DIC , TSV , Wirebond , Digital Implementation , stacked die , flip chip , PoP

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: Your Maiden Voyage Across OCEAN

I still remember my first encounter with OCEAN. It was 2002 and my co-worker had…

• 1 min read
OCEAN-XL , ocean , ADE , Spectre , ADE-XL , Custom IC Design , SKILL

Verification

Accessing Physical Memory and Registers in a Virtual World

When working with Virtual Platforms that are running operating systems it's sometimes…

• 3 min read
Registers , Memory , virtual platforms , Virtual , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Taray? Quite a Bit Actually!

You've probably read about all the buzz in the EDA news this week - " Cadence acquires…

• 4 min read
FPGA System Planner , Taray , OrCAD , PCB design , FPGA , Allegro

Verification

Tweeting From a Standards Meeting: Good or Bad?

In my last blog entry , I mentioned that I was able to keep up with a lot of the…

• 2 min read
uvm , tweeting , meetings , Functional Verification , texting , Accellera , EMAIL

Verification

Free eVC Generator From CFS Vision Update

In an earlier post Team Specman had the pleasure of introducing the free, open source…

• less than a min read
Specman , Functional Verification , OVM e , e , CFS Vision , FOSS , eRM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

TeamAllegro Spices Up SNUG With Allegro PCB SI

Allegro PCB SI has supported multiple simulation engines for well over seven years…

• less than a min read
PCB SI , HSPICE , IBIS , SigXP UI , PCB Signal and power integrity , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , PCB design

Verification

Crises In The Semiconductor Industry

I am on my way to Japan and I have just finished to read an excellent book and in…

• 2 min read
System Design and Verification , SoC , Semiconductor , ESL

Analog/Custom Design

Exceed On Demand And Virtuoso IC6.1

Many of our customers use our Virtuoso software in combination with the windows…

• less than a min read
IC 6.1 , OpenText , Exceed on Demand , Virtuoso , Cusstom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Optical Wiring On PCBs? See How Allegro PCB Editor Makes This Happen

This week, I'm taking a brief break from the usual PCB solution/product technical…

• 2 min read
Optical Wiring , OPCB , PCB Editor , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Built-in Message Logging – Part 2 of 2

[Team Specman welcomes back guest blogger, Michael Avery from our Services Group…

• 3 min read
Specman , debug , Functional Verification , e , Funcional Verification , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP

Verification

UVM = OVM 2.1: Even Better!

Since I'm not a member of the Accellera VIP TSC, I did not attend the 2.5-day face…

• 1 min read
uvm , Functional Verification , OVM , Accellera VIP TSC

Verification

Built-in Message Logging – Part 1 of 2

[Team Specman welcomes guest blogger Michael Avery, from our Services Group in the…

• 2 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , tech tips , e , AOP , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good AMS Simulator’s Probing? Check Out The SPB16.3 Release!

You'll need to check into the nifty new probe capabilities in the SPB16.3 Allegro…

• 1 min read
AMS , AMS simulator , SPB 16.3 , PCB design , Allegro

Digital Design

Signoff-Driven Implementation = Consistent and Convergent = Predictable and Effi…

Digital designs are reaching 10's of millions of instances, which makes efficiency…

• 2 min read
timing system , dynamic rail analysis , Static timing analysis , Early Rail Analysis , Multi-Core and Parallel rocessing , Statistical , Extraction , Signoff Analysis , timing constraints , SI analysis , noise analysis , OCV , Signal Integrity , Digital Implementation , Timing analysis , Power Analysis , signoff , timing convergence

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: IC 6.1.4 ADE Enhancements

I'm not going to beat around the bush here. I could tell you about all the things…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , IC 6.1.4 , Custom IC Design

Verification

VIP Portfolio Extension: New AMBA 4 Protocol Support

ARM-loving Specmaniacs's rejoice: we are now at liberty to announce that we are providing…

• 1 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , vPlan , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , Compliance Management System , CMS , AMBA , ARM
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