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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

Virtuoso Video Diary: Tips and Tricks on Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL …

Virtuoso Video Diary is envisaged to be an online journal that will relay information…

• 6 min read
custom/analog , Analog Simulation , analog , ADE , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

DAC: the Curtain Rises on the Cadence Theater

As in previous years, a highlight of the Cadence booth at DAC is the theater, where…

• 4 min read
DAC , Cadence Academic Network , Cadence Theater , dac53 , Design Automation Conference , 53dac

SoC and IP

What Memory Best Fits Your Application?

With highly effective DDR4 and LPDDR4 class memories, it’s not always easy to know…

• 1 min read
DDR4 , LPDDR4 , 4266 , 3200

Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes: Post #150

This is the 150th blog post here at Breakfast Bytes since I arrived at Cadence in…

• 3 min read
IP , EDA , Semiconductor , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

3D Xpoint: Is It a Game-Changer?

You have probably at least heard of 3D Xpoint. This is a memory technology jointly…

• 4 min read
Intel , Memory , Micron , flash , memory hierarchy , 3dx , DRAM , Breakfast Bytes , 3d xpoint

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Latest in ADW? The 16.6-2015 Release Has Several New Enhancements…

With the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.6-2015 release, you’ll have several new…

• 2 min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Allegro Design Workbench , Library and design data management , Grzenia , Librarians , library , ADW

Breakfast Bytes

Andrew Kahng on Industry-Academia Cooperation

At CDNLive Silicon Valley, Professor Andrew Kahng of UCSD gave a presentation titled…

• 4 min read
ucsd , Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , academia , kahng , CDNLive Silicon Valley

SoC and IP

Continued Strength of the Design&Reuse IP-SoC India

Design&Reuse events are always exciting for their draw of an IP-centric audience…

• 1 min read
PCIe Gen4 , 10G-KR , SerDes

Verification

Simulation Acceleration—Maximizing Simulator Performance

"Simulation Acceleration” or “Accelerated Verification” are terms commonly used to…

• 4 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , specman elite , verification

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Creating an Acceleration-Ready Simulation Environment with…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofer Steinberg explains how accelerated…

• less than a min read
accelerated VIP , Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , VIP , Palladium XP , simulation , SystemVerilog UVM , verification

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive: Routing at 10nm

At CDNLive Silicon Valley, Geeta Garg and Chad Hale of ARM, and Ming Yue of Cadence…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , Routing , implementation , 10nm

Breakfast Bytes

What Is RocketSim? Why Did Cadence Acquire Rocketick?

I talked to Uri Tal last week, who has just joined Cadence as a result of the Rocketick…

• 3 min read
dac2016 , gate-level simulation , DAC , Functional Verification , NVIDIA , RTL simulation , Incisive , dft simulation , rocketick , rocketsim , intel capital , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Linley IoT Conference: Security and...Well, Just Security

Mike Demler gave the keynote at the Linley IoT conference a couple of weeks ago.…

• 5 min read
security , IoT , industrial , Linley , wearables , Internet of Things , power , consumer , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

It's HOT in Austin in June

Every DAC, Heart of Technology (HOT) organizes an event. This year it will be held…

• 2 min read
dac2016 , DAC , CASEA , HOT , Heart of Technology , Jim Hogan , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Party Like It's 1999—How the Denali Party Started

As everyone in EDA knows, Denali threw a party at every DAC for what seems like forever…

• 3 min read
dac2016 , DAC , Denali Party , disco inferno , Denali , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Modular VIP Architecture

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Liron Stoler describes how the Cadence…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , VIP , system-level verification , block-level verification , modular architecture

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive EMEA: Memories Are Made of This

At CDNLive in Munich, Amjad Qureshi talked about High-Speed DDR and LPDDR Memory…

• 4 min read
LPDDR , CDNLive EMEA , memory IP , DDR , memory interface IP

RF Engineering

Cadence Presenting Four Spectre RF MicroApp Papers at IMS2016, May 22-27

Hello Spectre RF Users, Next week is my all time favorite technical conference -…

• less than a min read
RF , RF Simulation , wireless , analog/RF , HBnoise , Circuit simulation , Wilsey , HB , Spectre RF , pnoise , phase noise , Schaldenbrand , spectreRF , RF design , harmonic balance , pss

Breakfast Bytes

EDPS Cyber Security Workshop: "Anything Beats Attacking the Crypto Directly"

Many of the security breaches that you read about are the results of software failures…

• 5 min read
security , fault injection , side channel attack , Monterey , differential power analysis , EDPS , riscure , cyber security , Breakfast Bytes
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