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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 Samuel
• 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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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Can You Build Lego Masterpieces with All Blocks of One Size?

The way you need blocks of different sizes and styles to build great Lego masterpieces…

• 2 min read
ICADVM18.1 , cadence , WSP , Advanced Node , Local regions , Layout Suite , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , usability , Custom IC , ux , WSSPDef

Verification

Specman’s Callback Coverage API

Our customers’ tests have become more complex, longer, and consume more resources…

• 5 min read
Specman , Specman/e , Specman coverage engine , coverage , Specman e , specman elite , Coverage Driven Verification

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso视频日记：Multi-Technology Simulation - 改变带来更好的体验

如果您在单个芯片上设计了具有不同工艺流程的多个电路，则很可能已使用我们的Multi-Technology Simulation（MTS）功能对其进行了仿真。而且…

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Spectre , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Multi-Technology Simulation , Custom IC , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , MTS

Breakfast Bytes

1G Mobile: AMPS, TOPS, C-450, Radiocom 2000, and All Those Japanese Ones

You can't read anything about technology these days without reading about 5G. But…

• 5 min read
5G , amps , nmt , 1g , mobile

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Low Power SoC Design with High-Level Synthesis

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Dave Apte discusses how to create the…

• less than a min read
High-Level Synthesis , Whiteboard Wednesdays , Stratus

The India Circuit

My Journey - From a Layout Designer to an Application Engineer

Today, we are living in the era where whatever we think of as an idea is not far…

• 4 min read
CLK signal , VLSI , concurrent layout editing , customer , methodology , innovation , Turn Around Time (TAT) , memory compiler , DRC , automation , Project cycle , LVS , Application Engineer , EDA , machine learning , Simulation Driven Routing , Electrical Rule Check (ERC) , AI , Design Planner Analysis , catalyst , Schematic

Breakfast Bytes

RAMAC Park and the Origin of the Disk Drive

Did you know that there is a park in San Jose named after a disk drive? Actually…

• 7 min read
IBM , GlobalFoundries , ramac

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Shape Connectivity in the Allegro Data Model

Those who work in the IC Packaging design space have some unique challenges. We bridge…

• 6 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro In-Design Impedance Analysis: Screen your Routed Design Qu…

Have you ever manufactured a printed circuit board (PCB) without analyzing all the…

• 2 min read
PCB design , Sigrity , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Weekend Update

Okay, it's not the weekend, and this isn't Saturday Night Live. But it is an update…

• 7 min read
john conway , zombie , satellite

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Die Export Gets a Facelift

Hello everyone, today I’d like to talk to you about the recent enhancements to Die…

• 9 min read
ICADVM18.1 , die export , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Advanced Node , Virtuoso RF , Wirebond , Virtuoso , System Design Environment , shape-based die , RF design , Custom IC Design , SKILL

Breakfast Bytes

EDA101 Video

Years ago, before I rejoined Cadence, I developed a presentation called EDA101 that…

• 2 min read
video , eda101

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 26th April 2020

www.youtube.com/watch Made in my living room (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Fourth 4G…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

"A Lack of Clarity Could Put the Brakes on Any Journey to Success"

I'm not a big fan of the J-school approach to writing an article where you start…

• 5 min read
deepchip , 3D analysis , Signal Integrity , clarity

Academic Network

Stay Ahead of the Curve with These Popular Online Training Courses

As you’re approaching the end of the Netflix series you’re binging and you’re waiting…

• 4 min read
Europractice , Cadence Academic Network , CMC Microsystems , online training , university program

Breakfast Bytes

15 Years Ago Today, the First Video Was Uploaded to YouTube

As it says in the title to this blog post, the first video was uploaded to YouTube…

• 5 min read
video , YouTube , Tensilica

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuoso视频日记: “Training bytes” 助推知识传播—第2部分

通过此博客，您可以了解Cadence Education Service 的相关信息，其中包括Virtuoso 各产品的培训计划及安排，以及如何获取Cadence…

• 2 min read
Chinese blog , digital badges , training bytes , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary , Virtuoso Layout

Life at Cadence

Cheers to the Next 50

Today, Earth Day celebrates 50 years of support for environmental protection around…

• 3 min read
Culture , Community , giving back , EarthDay , sustainability , CSR , great place to work , volunteer

Breakfast Bytes

Legato: Making the Bathtub Wider and Deeper

Yesterday's post Automotive Reliability: The Bathtub Curve introduced automotive…

• 5 min read
Automotive , legato , FITS , reliability
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