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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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Four Early Computers: 1 and 2

Recently I was at the Computer History Museum (CHM) in Mountain View. For more about…

• 10 min read
ibm 1130 , ibm 370 , computer history museum , icl , ibm 360 , vax 11/780 , Breakfast Bytes , data general nova

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 28th to September 1st 2017

https://youtu.be/owSAPwuzYnA Coming from Saint Francis Yacht Club (camera Gary…

• less than a min read
meeker , China , mary meeker , Internet , India

Breakfast Bytes

Dare to be Different

Differentation Almost everything has to be differentiated from alternatives in…

• 8 min read
Automotive , Apple , Audi , differentiation , vw , Samsung , porsche , ADAS , BMW , autonomous vehicles , Smartphone , Huawei , Breakfast Bytes

Learning and Support

Leveraging Search Preference to Get Best out of support.cadence.com

Cadence provides products across the EDA spectrum, from Silicon Package Board to…

• 1 min read
Search , preference , Support

Verification

Put On Your Perspectacles: How Perspec Can Speed Up Your Testbench

It’s no secret that the bulk of time running simulations is spent on the testbench…

• 3 min read
Functional Verification , Perspec , xcelium , testbench

Breakfast Bytes

Integrated Virtual Dummy Metal Fill

Some things in semiconductor manufacturing sound made up when you first hear about…

• 4 min read
dummy metal fill , Extraction , Timing Closure , virtual metal fill , Innovus , Quantus QRC , metal fill , advanced virtual metal fill , Quantus , Breakfast Bytes , avmf

SoC and IP

What’s New With Cadence PCI Express IP? Almost Everything!

PCI-SIG Developer’s Conference 2017 was held in Santa Clara, California in June this…

• 1 min read
IP , TSMC , Gen4 , PCIe , 16nm , PCI Express 4.0 , 7nm , PCI-SIG

The India Circuit

Driverless Trucks and Trains: Dream or Possibility?

In October 2016, an 18-wheeler truck traveled 120 miles in the US and delivered 50…

• 3 min read
driverless vehicles , self-aware trains , Indian Railways , Tata Motors , autonomous vehicles , Mahindra Group

SoC and IP

It's a Visual World

Here’s an experiment to try: in a quiet (but crowded) Auditorium, drop a stack of…

• 7 min read
controller IP , Design IP , IP , IP blocks , Embedded Vision Summit , vision processing , Jitendra Malik , IP design , Tensilica , vision , future of IP , Design IP and Verification IP , imaging , image processing

Academic Network

BarCamp Concept in the Scope of Microelectonics

Historical Background The idea of BarCamp was established the first time by…

• 5 min read
Cadence Academic Network , BarCamp , academia , CDNLive EMEA , edaBarCamp

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON China Panel: Faster Than You Think

The afternoon of the first day of SEMICON West was taken up by a series of presentations…

• 7 min read
China , semicon , semicon china , semicon west , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

Do You Have The Tools You Need To Verify Your ARM Multi-core, Coherent SoC?

Multi-core, coherent SoCs are very complex and verifying their behavior requires…

• 1 min read
SoC verification , perspec system verifier , Accellera , ARM , pss , portable stimulus

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Group Looks at the IoT Market

Recently the Linley Group held their IoT Hardware Conference. Mike Demler kicked…

• 6 min read
DSP , tensilica hifi 3z , linley group , Tensilica , linley iot hardware conference , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

German Computer Museums

After leaving the title of yesterday's post in German, the obvious place to go for…

• 4 min read
zuse z3 , zuse , deutsches museum , zuse z4 , nixdorf , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Bayerische Motoren Werke und Fehlerkultur

Fehlerkultur is apparently untranslatable into English, at least according to Michael…

• 5 min read
bezos , Amazon , BMW , Agile , day 2 , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 21st to 25th 2017

https://youtu.be/IE1B-CmmtSs Coming from Cadence building 10 patio (camera…

• less than a min read
ibm 1130 , China , ibm 370 , integrated virtual dummy metal fill , differentiation , semicon west , IoT , ict 1900 , Linley , Internet of Things , ibm 360 , metal fill

Analog/Custom Design

Photonics Summit and Workshop 2017

Interested in learning about system-level integration of electronic/photonic devices…

• 1 min read
Phoenix , Lumerical , Photonics Summit , photonics , Custom IC Design

Learning and Support

Sharpening Learning Curve through Cadence Support Portal

Hefty books give many people shivers, especially in the tech world. ‘Table of Contents…

• 2 min read
COS , Self-Help , videos , what's new , Cadence Online Support , RAK , Application Notes , Cadence Support Portal , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

There's More Voice in Your Future

Rich Kennewick gave the keynote on the second day of the Linley IoT Hardware Conference…

• 5 min read
alexa , cortana , voice , voicebox , amazon alexa
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