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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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Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica HiFi DSPs with Dolby Atmos for Soundbars

Do you know what a soundbar is? Years ago, if you wanted to build a good home theater…

• 4 min read
HiFi , Tensilica

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Reuse to Recharacterize - Improve Productivity…

A write up on how Liberate MX effectively enables you to characterize only the failed…

• 3 min read
memory characterization , incremental run , timing validation , Liberate MX , Digital Implementation , interpolation error , library validation , Rapid Adoption Kits , RAKs

Verification

Catching up with Higher Ethernet Speed: VIP Supports 802.3ck

Draft 1.0 of 802.3ck, also known as 100G per lane, was finally published by IEEE…

• 2 min read
802.3ck , Ethernet VIP , baseR , VIP , 100Gbps , 100G backplane , CGPL

Verification

Sizing Up eUSB2 Verification

USB is one of the most widely used interfaces in the PC market for more than 20 years…

• 2 min read
VIP , USB-IF , eUSB , USB 2.0 , eUSB2

Verification

Why Is the Evolving HBM3 Such a Revolutionary Technology and How Can You Be Ready…

Since 2013, we have seen the HBM specifications being released by JEDEC and companies…

• 3 min read
Verification IP , Memory , VIP , JEDEC , HBM , storage , Design IP and Verification IP , verification

Breakfast Bytes

3G and 4G: The Internet Arrives

In posts over the last couple of weeks, I covered 1G and 2G mobile: 1G Mobile:…

• 7 min read
3g , 5G , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

John Park's Webinar on Chiplets

Recently Cadence's John Park presented a webinar on Design Methodologies for Next…

• 6 min read
SiP , featured , advanced packaging , 3DIC , OrbitIO , intelligent system design

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR11 and ICADVM18.1 ISR11 production releases are now available for…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , IC Release Blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

New PCIe SI Challenges Conquered Using Clarity 3D Field Solver for PCB

Figure 1: High-performance PCIe-based graphics card There is a trend in the data…

• 10 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , bit-error-rate , PCIe , Signal Integrity , serial link , SerDes , Channel simulation , Sigrity , Clarity 3D Solver , PCI-SIG , clarity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: The Choice Between Static and Dynamic Shapes

That title might be a touch misleading. We’re not here to talk about why to convert…

• 5 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

Happy Birthday Florence Nightingale: Nurse, Statistician, Feminist

Today is the 200th anniversary of the birth of the first woman member of the Royal…

• 7 min read
florence nightingale , statistics , women in science

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Challenges of On-Chip Thermal Analysis in Electronic System Designs

In the beginning of our universe, enormous amount of heat or energy was generated…

• 4 min read
Celsius Thermal Solver , IC Package , system analysis , EE Thermal , temperature , Power Integrity , 3D analysis , Voltus , Heat transfer , electrical-thermal co-simulation , thermal , heterogenous integration

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part VI

This is the last blog in the miniseries that aims at providing in-depth details of…

• 4 min read
EM Analysis , AXIEM , ICADVM18.1 , awr , Virtuoso RF , Electromagnetic analysis , 3D EM simulation , AWR AXIEM , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite

Breakfast Bytes

Why Create an SoC?

I've been in the semiconductor and EDA industries for nearly forty years. One thing…

• 10 min read
SoC , design , risk

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 10th May 2020

https://youtu.be/feK4sISKChA Made on Communication Hill, San Jose (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: Placing Parts Manually Using Design for Assembly…

So, what if you can figure out all that can go wrong when your product is being assembled…

• 2 min read
Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

Hearables and Earbuds

Do you have a set of Bluetooth earbuds yet? If not, you will. The iPhone was the…

• 5 min read
featured , HiFi , Tensilica , hearables , earbuds

Life at Cadence

Creative Ideas at Work Can Play a Big Part in Difficult Times

In the blink of an eye, we entered into a new, virtual reality, and the rapidly shifting…

• 5 min read
Leaderhip

Breakfast Bytes

2G: Mobile Goes Digital

In last week's post, 1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese…

• 12 min read
5G , GSM , 2g , mobile
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