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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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SoC and IP

Increased CHI Coherency Verification Challenges

Cache coherency is not unique to the new ARM® AMBA® 5 CHI (Coherent Hub Interface…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , Interconnect Validator , IVD , CHI , VIP , Dimitry Pavlovsky , Design IP and Verification IP , CHI VIP

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesday—MIPI UniPro for Chip-to-Chip Communications

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last in a three-part series, Kevin…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , UniPro , communication protocol , MIPI

SoC and IP

Where’s My Star Trek Lifestyle?

The sparkle seems to have gone out of the Internet of Things (IoT) market for the…

• 2 min read
Smarthome , cadence , IP blocks , IoT , wearables , IP design , embedded design , robotics , embedded systems

Verification

Heading Off the Butterfly Effect—The SimVision "Quick Diff"

Functional Verification Debug Blog - SimVision Gems Most engineers are familiar…

• 1 min read
HDL , "butterfly effect" , SimVision waveforms diff , Verilog , SimCompare , VHDL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Using Allegro TimingVision and IPC-2581 to Reduce Design Costs…

This week, you can view a couple of videos where customers describe how they used…

• 1 min read
PCB Layout and routing , Allegro 16.6 , Routing , High Speed , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , DDR3

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: 26 Things I Learned in November and December 2014 by Browsing Cadence…

Happy New Year to all from the award-winning Virtuosity blog team (Alice, Praveena…

• 4 min read
Liberate AMS , MMSIM , ADE XL , ADE , Virtuoso , Spectre , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , PVS , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , SKILL , IC 6.1.6

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Using Sigrity to Gain Signal Access? Check Out This Expert Insights…

This week, you can view a video where a customer describes how they used the Cadence…

• less than a min read
SI , Cadence Design Systems , PCB Signal and power integrity , SPB , Signal Integrity , PCB Signal integrity , Grzenia , SI analysis and modeling

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—ARM AMBA Microcontroller Protocol Family

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first of a two-part series, Avi Behar…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , CHI , ASB , ATB , APB , AMBA , ARM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Thieving? 16.6 Has Several New Enhancements…

The following enhancements have been made to the 16.6 Allegro PCB Editor Thieving…

• 1 min read
PCB Layout and routing , Allegro GUI , Allegro 16.6 , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

SoC and IP

HiSilicon collaborates with Cadence on DDR4 PHY IP for TSMC 16FF

High-performance and high-speed memory design characterized by low-power operation…

• 2 min read
DDR4 , electronic system design , cadence , IP blocks , TSMC , 16nm , FinFET , Hisilicon

SoC and IP

Cadence at CES 2015: Enabling Surreal Surround Sound Audio

LAS VEGAS—In the cacophony of CES, it’s refreshing to find an escape. I found mine…

• 1 min read
DTS , Consumer Electronics , cadence , surround sound , audio , Tensilica , HiFi DSP , CES 2015 , mobile

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Benefits of Voltage and Monitoring IP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays, Bob Salem discusses voltage and monitoring…

• less than a min read
IP , voltage and monitoring IP , temperature tracking , intellectual property

SoC and IP

Cadence Firmware Packages Enable Successful IP Integration

Building a system on chip (SoC) from IP blocks requires system-level integration…

• 3 min read
Bring-up , IP integration , ip cores , firmware

SoC and IP

Get a Glimpse at New Ethernet Standards in the Works

I attended the IEEE 802.3 meeting in Atlanta last week. I have blogged about Ethernet…

• 2 min read
25G Ethernet , new Ethernet standards , Ethernet standards , Automotive Ethernet , IEEE 802.3 , ip cores , Ethernet

Verification

Dealing with the "Throw it Over the Wall" Methodology in Power Supply Network De…

"Throw it over the wall" is business slang for completing your part of a project…

• 2 min read
PSN , Power Supply Network , debug , Functional Verification , power-aware , UPF

Verification

Searching Through a Complex Design? DFS to the Rescue!

Recently, while at a customer site, I was faced with the huge task of looking for…

• 4 min read
Functional Verification , simvision , design file search , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES)

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—Lower BOM Cost, Use 32-bit Wide LPDDR4 in Consumer Applica…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second of a two-part series, Jeffrey…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , LPDDR4 , 32-bit

SoC and IP

Cadence at CES 2015: Power-Sensitive Always-On Systems

LAS VEGAS—As the mobile world matures, opportunities abound for optimizing the user…

• less than a min read
audio , power management , HiFi Mini , Tensilica , Realtek Semiconductor , HiFi DSP , CES 2015

Verification

Lazy Test Cases for Tool Failures Using the Testcase Optimizer (TCO)

The Current State It seems to be a fact of life that software has bugs and, unfortunately…

• 7 min read
performance , methodology , verification strategy , debug , tech tips , Incisive , universal verification methodology , verification
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