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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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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: 裸片版图导出（Die Export）功能改头换面

大家好! 今天，我想给大家介绍Virtuoso RF解决方案中裸片版图导出（Die Export）的最新改进功能，其中大多数功能都已在ICADVM18.1 ISR10中发布…

• 4 min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Advanced Node , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , Wirebond , virtuoso system design platform , shape-based die , RF design , SKILL

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Verification in Virtuoso ADE Verifier - The Reliability Way!

Starting from the IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1 ISR12 releases, Virtuoso ADE Verifier supports…

• 7 min read
verifier , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , custom/analog , Analog Simulation , verification plan , analog , ADE , Mixed-Signal , reliability options , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Monte Carlo , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , implementations , mixed signal , Verifier Run Plan , reliability analysis , Custom IC Design , requirements , Custom IC , ADE Verifier , IC6.1.8 , reliability , Assembler , Verifier new feature , ADE Assembler , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Arm and NVIDIA: Simon Segars and Jensen Huang

What used to be face-to-face Arm TechCon has turned into a virtual conference under…

• 8 min read
Simon Segars , NVIDIA , ARM , jensen huang

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 11th October 2020

https://youtu.be/0oRah8lCf4M Made in front of my TV Monday: Jasper User Group 2020…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

全方位了解DDR 布线

本文要点： DDR 内存布线的重要性及布线时的关键注意事项。 从扇出布线 (escape routing) 和端接，到布线和高密度互连 (HDI) 设计的布线技巧…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , ddr5 , 布线 , PCB设计 , 中文 , 高密度互连 , DDR , 扇出布线 , 内存设计

Analog/Custom Design

Start Your Engines: Speed Up Your Analog Mixed-Signal Verification with Spectre X…

In this post, I will explain how you could speed up your mixed-signal verification…

• 5 min read
spectrex , AMS Designer , universal verification methodology , analog/mixed-signal , axum , mixed-signal design , AMSD Flexible , mixed-signal verification , AMS Flex

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Characterize Minimum Period for Memory Instance…

In this blog, I will talk about the minimum period arc, which is a critical arc associated…

• 3 min read
memory characterization , self-timed memory , clocking scheme , minimum period arc , library characterization , Liberate MX , Library Characterization Tidbit , Digital Implementation , externally timed memory

Breakfast Bytes

Optimized Digital Design, Implementation, and Signoff on TSMC N3

At the recent TSMC OIP forum, Yufeng Luo presented Optimized Digital Design, Implementation…

• 4 min read
Genus , n3 , TSMC , Innovus , digital full flow

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Virtuosity: Virtuoso Visualization and Analysisでのベクターファイルの読み込み

IC6.1.8およびICADVM18.1より前のバージョンでは、適用されたスティミュラスとともにデジタル波形とアナログ波形を表示するには、デジタルソルバとアナログソルバの両方を使用してシミュレーションを実行する必要がありました…

• less than a min read
VCD , Analog Design Environment , ICADVM18.1 , analog , ViVA , Virtuosity , analog stimuli , japanese blog , IC6.1.8 , vector

Breakfast Bytes

Bessemer Ventures: The Memos That Didn't Get Away

Who is the oldest venture capital company in the world? It is almost certainly Bessemer…

• 3 min read
bessemer , anti-portfolio , bvp , bessemer venture partners , memoranda

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Knowledge Booster Training Bytes – Part 3

Nowadays, it is more important than ever to use multiple test benches in a single…

• 4 min read
blended , ADE Explorer , training , Cadence training , digital badges , training bytes , Virtuoso , Cadence certified , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , online training , Custom IC , Assembler , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 and IC6.1.8 ISR14 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR14 and ICADVM20.1 production releases are now available for download…

• 4 min read
Cadence blogs , ADE Explorer , cadence , Virtuoso Layout EXL , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , ICADVM20.1 , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC OIP: Rent's Rule and Fast SerDes IP

Way back in the 1960s, E. Rent, who was working at IBM at the time, noticed a connection…

• 5 min read
n5 , 16ff , 112g , n7 , SerDes , 56g

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Creating Inter-Layer Checks Available in Constraint…

In standard PCB designs, various masks and surface finishes require verification…

• 3 min read
17.4 , Constraint Manager , Rigid-Flex , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Battening the Hatches After Going to Manufacturing

When you send the initial version of your design for manufacturing, it’s a huge sense…

• 4 min read
IC Packaging & SiP design , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019

Academic Network

Two New Books for Your Bookshelf

With video conferences getting more and more popular it is a question how to present…

• 4 min read
PCellDesigner , Reutlingen University , PSPICE , Academic Network , OrCAD

Breakfast Bytes

Innovus Mixed Placer

It has been a dream for a long time to have a fully automated mixed placer that does…

• 5 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Jasper User Group 2020 Preview

The biggest gathering of formal verification engineers in the world takes place in…

• 3 min read
Jasper User Group , JUG , cadenceconnect , JasperGold

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 4th October 2020

https://youtu.be/VZRwCBiexXQ Made in front of my TV Monday: The CHIPS Alliance …

• less than a min read
sunday brunch
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