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Next Steps for the Cadence and SkyWater MPW Service

At Cadence, we are dedicated to nurturing future innovators. Our commitment to education…

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• 6 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network , SKY130

Corporate News

New Ultra-Fast Debug Solution for Palladium Emulation with Verisium Debug

Verification engineers continually report that up to 70% of the total engineering…

Corporate
• 2 min read
news story , featured , verisium , AI

Corporate News

Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum

The semiconductor industry thrives on collaboration, and few pairings exemplify this…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , OIP Partner of the Year , AI-Driven Design , TSMC

Cadence Japan

境界を越えて、未来を組み上げろ―ホンダ×ケイデンス

「AIは、物理世界にどう根付いていくのか？」をテーマに、本田技術研究所社 先進技術研究所（HGRX）との対談を通じて、AIと半導体の未来、フィジカルAIの可能性…

Cadence Japan
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Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , japanese blog
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Verification

Concurrent Actions in Specman

Lately we have been asked by several customers about the concurrency options in Specman…

• 2 min read
first of , Specman , Specman/e , Specman e , e , specman elite

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 24th March 2019

https://youtu.be/FFd9mncMANI Made at SEMICON China (camera Tracy Zhu) Monday: The…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

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RSA: The Director of the FBI

Christopher Wray, the current (and the 8th) Director of the FBI, wrapped up the opening…

• 6 min read
rsa , fbi

Verification

NVMe 2019 Developer's Conference: NVMe 1.4 Is Almost Here, and Enterprise and Cloud…

Unlike previous years, the annual NVM Express Developer’s Conference was held in…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , Enterprise , NVM Express , PCIe Gen4 , NVMe , VIP , cloud , PCIe , PCI Express , TripleCheck

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Exposing Adaptive EQ in 32 Gbps Receivers

It is no secret that serial link data rates have skyrocketed over the past 15 years…

• 1 min read
dfe , SI , FFE , DesignCon , Adaptive Equalization , AGC , IBIS-AMI , EQ , DesignCon 2019 , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI , Automatic Gain Control

Breakfast Bytes

#learntocode

When a few hundred journalists were laid off recently, there was a lot of activity…

• 7 min read
computer science , learntocode

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RSA Cryptographers' Panel

One big highlight of the RSA conference is always The Cryptographers' Panel. This…

• 14 min read
security , rsa , cryptography

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: What Makes EM/IR Analysis A Significant Sign-Off Step?

This blog describes the EM and IR analyses in Virtuoso ADE as a design sign-off step…

• 3 min read
ADE Explorer , EM/IR , Power Integrity , IC layout , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso Video Diary , sign-off , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC design , EMIR

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - 5G PHY Use Cases on B20

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Rong Chen talks about the 5G use cases…

• less than a min read
5G , B20 , Whiteboard Wednesdays , ConnX

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR2 and ICADVM18.1 ISR2 production releases are now available for download…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Space-based Router , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Layout , Virtuoso , cadenceblogs , IC Release Blog , New in EDA , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

Breakfast Bytes

RSA: From Helen Mirren to Tina Fey

The RSA Security Conference that took place in the first week of March was bracketed…

• 4 min read
security , rsa , cryptography

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Allegro 3D Canvas—Visualize the Board as You Design

Today’s dense and complex PCB designs require realistic 3D view to investigate the…

• 3 min read
PCB , Layout , 3D , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Maestro Plotting Templates

Waveforms, plots, graphs, measurements, markers... are all a part and parcel of any…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , ViVA , plotting templates , maestro plotting templates , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

The World Wide Web Was Born 30 Years Ago This Month

In March 1989 at CERN, a guy called Tim-Berners Lee had an idea about how to get…

• 4 min read
Internet , tim-berners lee , CERN

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 17th March 2019

https://youtu.be/b5eJJcHiOoY Made at Cadence building 9 lobby (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

Domain-Specific Computing 3: Specialized Processors

The last two days' posts have looked at the development of general-purpose processors…

• 8 min read
domain specific computing , special purpose architectures , GPUs , Dark Silicon , Tensilica , ARM

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Domain-Specific Computing 2: The End of the Dark Ages

Yesterday looked at how general-purpose computer architecture changed during the…

• 5 min read
computer architecture , domain specific computing

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Teardrops and Tapers – Improving Manufacturability and Yield Automatically

Teardrops (also called fillets) are the blending area of a cline entry into a pad…

• 4 min read
PCB Layout and routing , IC Packaging and SiP Design , PCB Editor , Allegro PCB Editor

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Domain-Specific Computing 1: The Dark Ages of Computer Architecture

This is the era of domain-specific computing. Or, to use the words of Dave Patterson…

• 8 min read
computer architecture , domain specific computing , moore's law
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