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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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Will Crypto Change the World?

Do you remember when you had to pay for ringtones? In 2005, analysts were predicting…

• 12 min read
crypto , Internet , mobile , blockchain

Analog/Custom Design

Break the Wall! Merging Circuit Design Flow and Layout Design Flow for FinFET De…

How can we overcome design challenges with FinFET architecture? Mr. Kazuhiro Oda…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso New Design Platform , Physical placement and layout , Advanced Node , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Simulation for a Song: Downloading Models from the Web and Associating with Parts…

While on a long drive, I like to sing along; say Eye of the Tiger or Johny B Goode…

• 3 min read
capture , Models , PSPICE , OrCAD , simulation

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Virtuoso ADE Verifier in IC6.1.8 and ICADVM18.1 – Better, Faster, Further…

Cutting-edge innovation … Top-down planning … Reliable and formalized verification…

• 3 min read
verifier , PVT , ICADVM18.1 , custom/analog , Formalized Verification , Analog Simulation , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , space , Custom IC Design , ADE Verifier , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , verification

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60 Years of DARPA—61 Actually

On 4th August 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik…

• 5 min read
Aerospace , magestic , arpa , space , eri , darpa , chips

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR1 and ICADVM18.1 ISR1 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR1 and ICADVM18.1 ISR1 production releases are now available for download…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Space-based Router , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , cadenceblogs , IC Release Blog , New in EDA , Virtuoso: The Next Overture , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

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DesignCon 2019

It doesn't seem to matter what a show is ostensibly about at the moment. Every show…

• 4 min read
uber , DesignCon , AMI , IBIS , 112g , photonics

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 如何使用ADE Explorer 及ADE Assembler 打开旧版本的ADE 状态和视图文件

您是否发现，当您查看 Virtuoso ® ADE L 状态（State）文件，或者 Virtuoso ® ADE XL 视图 (View) 文件时，默认打开程序仍然是旧版本的…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso ICADVM18.1 , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , ADE Migration , maestro , ADE , Virtuoso IC6.1.8 , Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

Emerging Memories Poised to Explode

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit. (For more details, see my…

• 5 min read
fram , ReRAM , flash , xpoint , 3D NAND , NAND flash , emerging memories , DRAM , nor flash , MRAM , PCRAM

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DesignCon: Cadence Teaches AMI and IBIS

At the recent DesignCon, Cadence and customer IBM presented a tutorial on Advanced…

• 9 min read
DesignCon , AMI , IBIS , SerDes

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

2019七大行业动向预测

本文翻译自Cadence “Breakfast Bytes”专栏作者Paul McLellan文章 “ Breakfast Nibbles: Predictions…

• less than a min read
5G , Chinese blog , 内存 , 无人车 , 3nm , 电动车 , DRAM , 中文 , 汽车 , 云 , 5nm , 神经网络 , AI , EUV

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 3rd February 2019

https://youtu.be/CXTltDRjb-M Made at DesignCon 2019 (camera Sean) Monday: IEDM:…

• less than a min read
5G , DFT , Memory , CES , modus , mobile , persistent memory , IEDM

Breakfast Bytes

Programming Persistent Memory

I talked earlier this week about the recent persistent memory summit (see my post…

• 5 min read
programming model , persistent memory

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Simulation Planning and Coverage Environment (SPACE)- Introduction

An important requirement for project sign-off is to ensure that all the design simulations…

• 2 min read
verifier , PVT , coverage , Analog Coverage , Analog Simulation , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , space , Custom IC Design , Assembler , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Persistent Memory

Last week was the latest Persistent Memory Summit. In the semiconductor world, we…

• 8 min read
persistence , Intel , non-volatile , persistent memory summit , ReRAM , optane , MRAM , persistent memory , 3dxpoint

Breakfast Bytes

What Next for Modus DFT?

I sometimes say that test is the red-headed stepchild of EDA, that doesn't get the…

• 3 min read
modus , Test , scantest

Verification

Specman is Sweet – Bosch Sensortec's Story

Recently, Bosch Sensortec has been using Specman for their functional verification…

• 1 min read
Specman , Bosch , e , success

Breakfast Bytes

CES: 5G, All Hat and No Cattle

Increasingly, CES seems to be less about consumer electronics, and more about the…

• 9 min read
5G , mmwave , CES , MWC

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Introducing the Pin Tool

The Pin Tool follows an object-based approach to working with pins by consolidating…

• 2 min read
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