Explore the Cadence Forums to find and exchange in-depth technical information.

Featured

Corporate News

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
cdns - all_blogs_categories

Blog - Post List

Latest blogs

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Flexible Connectivity Support of Dummy Devices

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

• 3 min read
dummy backannotation , Physical placement and layout , backannotation , Layout , Virtuoso , dummy abutment , dummy instances , dummy instance backannotation , dummy devices , dummy instance abutment , Virtuoso Layout Suite , dummies , VLS XL , custom design technology , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL , Abutment

Breakfast Bytes

FD-SOI: Is It Really a Thing?

Apparently, asking if something is really a thing is really a thing. So, recently…

• 8 min read
FinFET , GlobalFoundries , ARM , FD-SOI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the Latest Constraint Manager? The 16.6-2015 Release has Several…

Significant enhancements to the 16.6-2015 Constraint Manager release have been made…

• 3 min read
PCB , SI , Allegro 16.6 , SigXP UI , Constraint Manager , Signal Integrity , Constraints , Grzenia

Analog/Custom Design

The Leader of the Orchestra: Getting Started with Virtuoso ADE Verifier

The members of an orchestra are often great virtuosi on their own instruments, but…

• 3 min read
verifier , Virtuoso ADE Verifier , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment

Breakfast Bytes

Patents and Standards, Managing the Challenge

One challenge with standards is the desire to avoid unknowingly incorporating patents…

• 5 min read
vlsi technology , Rambus , ieee patent policy , GSM , loa , patent , IEEE-SA , IEEE , letter of assurance , Breakfast Bytes , standard

Breakfast Bytes

Andrew Kahng on PPAC Scaling Below 7nm

Last week Dr. Andrew Kahng came to town. He was at CDNLive, where his presentation…

• 5 min read
ucsd , roadmap , ITRS , Cadence Academic Network , kahng , andrew kahng , 5nm , 7nm , power

Academic Network

Academic Track Makes Its Debut at CDNLive Silicon Valley

For the first time at CDNLive Silicon Valley, Cadence Academic Network hosted an…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , academia

Breakfast Bytes

Phil Moorby and the History of Verilog

Last Saturday there was a gala event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View…

• 6 min read
verilog-xl , gateway design automation , SystemVerilog , Gateway , Phil Moorby , Verilog , computer history museum , chm

SoC and IP

50 Years of Turning Optical Dreams into Reality

Anaheim Convention Center (CA) was the center of a spectacle of technology that continues…

• 3 min read
Optical , PCIe Gen4 , OFC , Fiber , PCIe

Breakfast Bytes

Ann Winblad Masterclass

Normally the Stanford VLAB meets in Menlo Park, but occasionally they make a foray…

• 5 min read
ann winblad , vlab , hummer winblad , venture capital

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Future of Neural Networks

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Chris Rowen looks at the future of neural…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , Chris Rowen , Tensilica , neural networks

Breakfast Bytes

Open Server Summit: How to Install 5,000 Servers Per Day

There are only a few end markets for semiconductors that really drive the technology…

• 6 min read
Open Server Summit , servers , datacenter

Verification

Building Efficient Scoreboards

A “scoreboard” is a verification component that checks the data sent to the DUT against…

• 7 min read

Breakfast Bytes

"Interoperability is the Only Way to Prove Standards Compliance"

At the recent TSMC Technology Symposium, Cadence and Mellanox demonstrated multi…

• 3 min read
pcie 4.0 , data center , PHY , mellanox , PCIe , mobile , PCI Express

Breakfast Bytes

Memory in China: XMC

Yesterday I covered the first half of the CASPA meeting last Saturday about memory…

• 4 min read
China , Memory , xmc , NAND flash , 3d nand flash , DRAM , caspa , goldman sachs , ibs

Verification

RTL Signoff vs. Functional Signoff

The notion of signoff has many layers to it, both in terms of complexity but also…

• 4 min read
funtional verification , IMC , metric driven verification (MDV) , functional coverage , MDV , vManager

Breakfast Bytes

Memory, the Turning Point of Chinese Semiconductor Industry

I can't keep away from work. Saturday found me in the Cadence auditorium for the…

• 5 min read
China , Memory , xmc , NAND flash , 3d nand flash , DRAM , caspa , goldman sachs , ibs

Breakfast Bytes

TI and UI: Texas Instruments' Experience with the Common User Interface

Cadence's tools Genus, Innovus, and Tempus have a lot of functionality in common…

• 3 min read
Genus , Tempus , Joules , Voltus , Innovus , Bob Sussman , Texas Instruments , TI , Breakfast Bytes , common UI

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Common Infrastructure Between Simulation VIP and Accelerated…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Arindam Guha discusses the common infrastructure…

• less than a min read
accelerated VIP , Verification IP , simulation VIP , simulation
CDNS - Fix Layout Hompage