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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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Verification

Debugging Multi-Language Verification Environments

As shown in previous blog posts in the Multi-Language Verification Environment series…

• 4 min read
uvm , UVM-ML , multi-language verification , debugging

Digital Design

Five-Minute Tutorial: Innovus Placement Optimization

Hi Everyone, Last time we got a quick look at The Innovus Standard Flow . Now…

• less than a min read
GigaPlace , Timing Optimization , Innovus , Placement

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—What Is PCI Express Address Translation Services?

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Gopi Krishna defines and describes how…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , address translation services , PCIe , PCI Express

SoC and IP

Find Everything You Need to Build an Advanced PCI Express 4.0 Solution in One Booth…

The PCI-SIG Developers Conference happening today and tomorrow will be yet another…

• 2 min read
PCIe Gen4 , pcie gen2 , 16nm , PCIe Gen3 , PCI-SIG

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Help Us to Help You

There is a team at Cadence working on developing the next generation of Cadence documentation…

• less than a min read
Virtuoso , Cadence Help , online documentation , Cadence support

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Manage All Design Variant Options for Your Package Substrate Seamlessly Using 16…

Stacked memory is becoming increasingly common in IC package substrates; with that…

• 2 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , stacked dies , SiP , IC Package , IC Packaging , SiP Design , design variants , package design , SiP Layout

SoC and IP

Sensor Processing, How Hard Can It Be?

When I think back back just a few years ago, there were only a handful of devices…

• 2 min read
DSP , IP , IP blocks , controller , IoT , SoC , Fusion , ip cores , Processor IP , Tensilica , semiconductor IP , Internet of Things , Design IP and Verification IP , always-on

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Benefits of Designing Your SoC with a Multi-Protocol PHY

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, William Chen explains the many benefits…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , PHY , SoC , multi-protocol

SoC and IP

Tensilica Team Wins DAC 2015 Best Paper Award

Cadence’s Tensilica team was honored with the Best Paper Award at the IP track at…

• 1 min read
IP , Chris Rowen , ip cores , vision , imaging , image processing

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: 14 Things I Learned in May 2015 by Browsing Cadence Online Support

Cadence Documentation 1. Cadence Documentation Survey Cadence is committed…

• 4 min read
ADE XL , Virtuoso , Spectre

Verification

Designing a Google Ara Module and Worrying About MIPI UniPro?

So you've looked at Google project ARA and you have the most brilliant idea for a…

• 1 min read
Verification IP , UniPro , Ara , VIP , MIPI , google , TripleCheck

Verification

Aargh!!! How Can I Read Arguments from the Command Line Without argv?

Many times a user would like to be able to modify the behavior of a program based…

• 3 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e language , simulation

Verification

Multi-Language Verification Environment (#4)—Multi-Language Hierarchy

In the previous posts in this series on Multi-Language Verification Environment,…

• 2 min read
uvm , Functional Verification , e , universal verification methodology , e language , multi-language , verification

Digital Design

Five-Minute Tutorial: The Innovus Standard Flow

Hi Everyone, Last week I highlighted a video featuring Innovus User Interface…

• less than a min read
design flow , Digital Implementation , Innovus , five minute tutorial

Verification

Multi-Language Verification Environment (#3) – Connecting UVM Scoreboard to a Multi…

In the previous blog post , we demonstrated connecting a checker implemented in SystemVerilog…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , multi-language verification , UVM Scoreboard , verification

Verification

DAC 2015 – Join Us to Experience the Continuum of Verification and System Development…

The biggest yearly event in electronic design automation (EDA) is due to take over…

• 8 min read
cadence , EDA , Moscone Center , DAC 2015 , verification , system development

Verification

It’s Time to Modernize Debug Data and It’s Happening at DAC

“The leading edge is 1 million gates.” That was the news when we approved IEEE Verilog…

• 2 min read
Verdi , debug , simvision , VCs , Indago , Debussy , Questa , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—What's a Configurable Processor?

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen discusses the basics of Tensilica…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , Tensilica , configurable processor

Digital Design

Five-Minute Tutorial: Innovus User Interface Tips

Hi Everyone, No doubt by now you have heard about the Innovus Implementation System…

• less than a min read
UI , Digital Implementation , Innovus , five minute tutorial
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