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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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Academic Network

Cadence Participates in 14 Spring Career Fairs

Rain or snow does not stop our Cadence employees from being the perfect brand ambassadors…

• 1 min read
university , Cadence Academic Network , campus recruitment , academia

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the latest RF PCB? New capabilities in 16.6-2015!

The 16.6-2015 RF PCB release contains many new features and updates. Read on for…

• 4 min read
RF , Cadence Design Systems , 16.6 , SPB , Grzenia , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Qualcomm Looks to the Future: Steve Mollenkopf's CDNLive Keynote

Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm Incorporated, gave one of the keynotes at CDNLive…

• 4 min read
mollenkopf , CDNLive , IoT , Qualcomm , Internet of Things , drone , mobile , Snapdragon , CDNLive Silicon Valley , ARM , datacenter , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Modelling a Value Holder Template with the Value “new-ed” by Default

In many companies, there is a well-defined flow for handling monitored data items…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , tech tips , e , e language , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Jim Hogan and the Early Days of Virtuoso

I had lunch with Jim last week to get a little color on the early days of the Virtuoso…

• 3 min read
Hogan , james spoto , national , Virtuoso , daisy systems , chipmaster , Jim Hogan , SDA , SKILL

Academic Network

Announcement of MEMS Design Contest at DATE

On March 17 th in the Exhibition Theatre at DATE, there was the first public announcement…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Network , academia , MEMS Design Contest

Breakfast Bytes

AdaptIP Talk About Their High-Level Synthesis Approach at CDNLive

At this year's CDNLive, AdaptIP presented their experiences with high-level synthesis…

• 4 min read
802.11ah , CDNLive , adaptip , Stratus , viterbi decoder , high level synthesis , CDNLive Silicon Valley , FFT , HLS , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Things I Learned in January, February, and March 2016 by Browsing Cadence…

At CDNLive Silicon Valley this month, Cadence announced a new family of ADE tools…

• 6 min read
verifier , Explorer , Advanced Node , ADE , modgens , Assembler , VLS XL

Academic Network

What Are Rapid Adoption Kits, And Why Are They Great for Academia?

Academic research often requires the learning of new concepts and techniques in a…

• 1 min read
Cadence Academic Network

Breakfast Bytes

Tom Beckley's CDNLive Keynote: Addressing Complexity and Safety Challenges

Tom Beckley gave the final keynote before lunch here at CDNLive in Silicon Valley…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso Variation Option , Virtuoso ADE Verifier , Tom Beckley , CDNLive , CDNLive Silicon Valley 2016 , Virtuoso , CDNLive Silicon Valley , Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Mobile Unleashed...and Reviewed

I finished reading Don Dingee and Dan Nenni's book, Mobile Unleashed, the Origin…

• 5 min read
Apple , Simon Segars , Samsung , Qualcomm , mobile , ARM processors , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Relationships Between USB Specs

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jacek Duda describes the relationships…

• less than a min read
USB Power Delivery , Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , USB Type-C , Jacek Duda , USB , USB-C , USB 3.1

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Design Resonance: Getting Started with Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Assemble…

By now, you have probably heard about the new family of Virtuoso ADE tools, publicly…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE XL , ADE , Virtuoso , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design

Analog/Custom Design

Welcome to the New Sound of Analog Design

The new Virtuoso ® ADE product suite enables designers to fully explore, analyze…

• 2 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Happy 25th Birthday, Virtuoso!

There are a lot of changes going on in the environment in which analog design gets…

• 5 min read
Virtuoso Variation Option , Virtuoso ADE Verifier , Virtuoso , analog design , Virtuoso ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE Assembler , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

A Brief History of Cadence: the Present Day

In the early days, like all the larger EDA companies, Cadence grew through a mixture…

• 3 min read
cadence , startups , history , SDA , acquisitions

Breakfast Bytes

Blue Gecko, Designed with Cadence Mixed-Signal, Low-Power Flow

Blue Gecko is a system on chip (SoC) created by Silicon Labs to provide wireless…

• 1 min read
AMS , Tempus , Silicon Labs , blue gecko , Voltus , bluetooth , Spectre , Innovus , mixed signal , zigbee

Academic Network

Student Day at embedded world, Nuremberg

The Cadence Academic Network was proud to sponsor the Student Day at embedded world…

• 1 min read
Student Day , Cadence Academic Network , Embedded World

Breakfast Bytes

EDAC Becomes the Electronic System Design Alliance

Last night, Bob Smith, the executive director of what was EDAC, announced the new…

• 5 min read
robert smith , ESDA , semi , embedded software , bob smith , Semiconductor , semiconductor IP , EDAC , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance
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