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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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Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays – The Storage Combo PHY IP – Nirvana!

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda describes three storage protocols…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PHY IP , ONFI 4.x

Breakfast Bytes

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell

When I was a postgraduate at Edinburgh University, my office was in the James Clerk…

• 3 min read
RF , maxwell , Virtuoso

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Correcting Die Orientations and Die Attachments

When you add a die component to your SiP Layout design, you must identify both its…

• 3 min read
APD , SiP Layout

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 我的 Checks 通过还是没有运行？

今天的博客重点介绍 Checks/Asserts 结果显示和 Summary 表。 这个博客是我们每周发布两次 - 周二和周四 - 的迷你博客系列的一部分，以涵盖…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , ADE Explorer , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Tales from DAC: MediaTek's Experience with Spectre X Simulator

MediaTek recently gave the new Spectre X Simulator a try, and they talked about their…

• 1 min read
Cadence Theater , DAC 2019 , mediatek , spectre x

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: In Search of the Perfect Environment—Configuring Allegro EDM

Ah, the office temperature – that eternal debate. As in many offices, ours has some…

• 2 min read
allegro edm , PCB design

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Export the Die? What Am I Exporting? To Where?

Here I come back with another episode of TILP of the Virtuoso Meets Maxwell series…

• 4 min read
ICADVM18.1 , die export , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , die , Layout , Multitech , TILP , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite

Breakfast Bytes

Passwords and Multi-Factor Authentication

I recently came across an interesting piece written by Microsoft's Alex Weinert,…

• 6 min read
security , passwords , two factor authentication

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 21st July 2019

https://youtu.be/JHWXXezFMU8 Made at Krakow, Poland (camera Gary Bengier) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

The First Computer on the Moon

I am sure you can't fail to have noticed that tomorrow is the 50th anniversary of…

• 7 min read
moon landing , NASA

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

关于PCB安装孔所需了解的一切

安装孔似乎很简单——只需将印刷电路板安装到外壳或表面上，选择一个适合电路板以及待安装表面的螺丝尺寸，然后根据此规格钻孔即可。 但与印刷电路板中其他设计一样，当增加高速信号并减小形状因子后…

• less than a min read
PCB , Chinese blog , 钻孔 , PCB设计 , 中文 , 过孔 , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Introducing Automated Device Placement and Routing in Virtuoso

This blog provides an overview of the fully automated device-level placement and…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , VPR , Automatic Placement , Advanced Node , Layout EXL , APR , Auto P&R , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Placement , Custom IC Design

Verification

Tales from DAC: Cadence, AI, and You

Complexity is driving the urgency for advanced artificial intelligence systems more…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification , Cadence Theater , DAC 2019 , Tensilica , AI

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity: 模拟设计环境中的最重要的3个后仿改进功能

今天的博客重点介绍了后仿流程的最新增强功能。 这些增强功能解决了许多长期存在的问题，例如原理图和版图命名的匹配，绘制端口电压和DSPF文件扫描。 这个博客是我们每周发布两次…

• 1 min read
Chinese blog , ADE Explorer , post-layout , DSPF , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , postlayout , Virtuosity , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

Orchestras, Degrees, and Choice

Did you read about how orchestras started to do blind auditions where the players…

• 6 min read
STEM , gender

Analog/Custom Design

Tales from DAC: The New Spectre Simulator Is Here!

If you’re doing circuit simulation anywhere in the world, you’re probably already…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification , DAC 2019 , Spectre , spectre x

Breakfast Bytes

Intelligent System Design for Automobiles of the Future

There's a lot going on in the automotive market. The three big things are electric…

• 4 min read
Automotive , ADAS

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Avoid Iterations with Your Manufacturing Partner – Detect and Address…

Some things are rare, good or bad, but they do happen from time to time. And, some…

• 2 min read
DesignTrue , Allegro PCB Editor

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays – What is Happening at the USB IF Standards Meetings?

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda talks about the next-generation…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , USB
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