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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

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Cadence USB Type-C VIP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Asila Nahas describes the USB Type-C…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , USB Type-C , VIP , USB , Type-C

Breakfast Bytes

BROADPWN: Attacking Smartphones through the Wi-Fi Chip

Do you have an iPhone? Did it suddenly update IoS at the end of last week? That's…

• 7 min read
aslr , dep , virus , android , Mobile World Congress , iOS , worm , broadpwn , malware

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 7th to 11th 2017

https://youtu.be/uIodpPVnsXM Coming from Cadence cafeteria patio (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , 3d logic , electron , london science museum , bletchley park , Samsung , transistor , lithium ion , 3d nand flash , samsung sdi , battery

SoC and IP

Happy Birthday Tensilica

Yes, it’s Tensilica’s birthday! Twenty years ago today, on July 31, 1997, Tensilica…

• 2 min read
DSP , Chris Rowen , HiFi , Tensilica , vision

Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica Has the Same Birthday as Harry Potter

You probably know that Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st. As it happens, that…

• 5 min read

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Handy UI Enhancements in ADE Assembler & ADE Explorer

We have been busy working on several small UI enhancements for Assembler & Explorer…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Explorer , ADE , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

Verification

X-Propagation: Xcelium Simulator’s X-prop Technology Ensures Deterministic Reset

All chips need to cold reset on every power-up. Warm resets, however, are a bit more…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , xcelium , Reset , simulation

Breakfast Bytes

The Intel Museum

During the summer, while the living is easy and the fish are jumping, each Friday…

• 3 min read
Intel , business plan , microprocessor , Breakfast Bytes , intel museum

Verification

Moving to Xcelium Simulation? I’m Glad You Asked

Ready to take the next step in simulation technology with a true third-generation…

• 2 min read
performance , Self-Help , uvm , simvision , RAK , Multi-Core , Appnote , troubleshooting , simulation , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Secret Key Generation with Physically Unclonable Functions

Yesterday, I wrote about automotive security from a big-picture level. Today let…

• 4 min read
trng , physically unclonable function , puf , aes , prng.trivium , rijndael , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

ROHM CO., Ltd Adopts Our Functional Safety Verification Solution

On July 17, 2017, Cadence announced that the Cadence® Functional Safety Verification…

• less than a min read
functional safety , Functional Verification , ROHM Co. , press release , ISO 26262

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Empowering Learning: New Learning – Cadence Allegro and OrCAD Release17.2-2016

Interested in an easy-to-use, collaborative, and robust design-environment that reduces…

• 1 min read
Allegro Design Entry , Allegro 17.2 , AMS simulator , OrCAD Capture , Capture CIS , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2 , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

One Thing Could Shut Down this Party—Automotive Cybersecurity

Ofer Ben Noon, CEO and co-founder of Argus Cybersecurity, had the job of raining…

• 4 min read
security , Automotive , Wannacry , Automotiv Elektronik Kongress , Argus Cybersecurity , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - What is Post-Package Repair for LPDDR4 Memories?

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg describes the post-package…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , DDR4 , LPDDR4

Learning and Support

What to Expect from Each Collateral on Cadence Support Portal and How to Access …

Undoubtedly, the most important component of any online portal is CONTENT and its…

• 3 min read
Self-Help , videos , RAK , Application Notes , troubleshooting , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Meet the Newest Member of the Tensilica Family, the HiFi 3z DSP

As NVIDIA's Jensen Huang pointed out a few weeks ago, and I covered in my blog post…

• 4 min read
linley group , HiFi , hifi 3z , Tensilica , Breakfast Bytes , linley iot conference

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 31st to August 4th 2017

https://youtu.be/9bkl9KLReDI Coming from hyperspace (camera Sean, editing me…

• less than a min read
autonomous trucks , 3D transistors , Samsung , mercedes-benz , imec , batteries , tesla , samsung sdi , computer history museum , itf

Verification

Xperiences with Xcelium: Hewett-Packard Enterprise Makes the Switch

At Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), the team working to create IP for “The Machine…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , xcelium , hp enterprise

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Are You Maximizing Your Product Design? See How a Custom ASIC Can Help

When you push more of your board into high-performance design fabric like an SoC…

• 1 min read
ASIC , cadence hosted design solutions , designstart , ARM
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