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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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Breakfast Bytes

Nibbles: Breakfast Bytes Predictions 2017

It's that time of year when pundits try and predict major changes that will happen…

• 3 min read
2016 predictions , 2017 predictions

Verification

Bare Metal Tests and Hardware-Software Co-Verification

One interesting question that arises from time to time is whether the Cadence® Perspec…

• 4 min read
hardware-software co-verification , uvm , pswg , Acceleration , Perspec , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , Emulation , System simulation and analysis , Accellera , FPGA prototypes , testbench , portable stimulus , silicon , bare metal , verification

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V "The thing that you learn and the thing that you use are the same"

The Electronic System Design Alliance (fka EDAC) has been organizing evening meetings…

• 7 min read
risc-v , cadence , isa , Jim Hogan , instruction set architecture , sifive , esd alliance

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Demystifying the Abstract

You heard it right! It’s Virtuoso Abstract Generator, the popular library modeling…

• 3 min read
AG , abstract , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive at CES

Automotive was huge at CES. A lot of it went for the glamour without really having…

• 3 min read
Automotive , NVIDIA , Qualcomm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interconnect Design Verification Challenges

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nimrod Reiss takes a closer look at the…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , VIP , MIPI , MIPI protocols , Nimrod Reiss , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Security in 2016 and 2017

It's the start of the year, plus the Consumer Electronics Show is over. I've already…

• 3 min read
security , botnets , mirai , drones , Singapore

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the Hierarchical Color Locking Check

As you incrementally build your design and decompose the layout geometry into masks…

• 2 min read
dbLock , Hierarchical Color Locking Conflicts , Multiple Patterning Technology , HCL , Coloring Engine , Virtuoso Video Diary , Hierarchical Color Locking Check , multi-patterning technology , Custom IC Design , MPT

Academic Network

Cadence Academic Network Events in Russia

Despite all of the recent political tensions, Russia remains an attractive market…

• 2 min read
MIET , Cadence Academic Network , MEPHI , RusNano , Russia

Breakfast Bytes

5G is Coming. Qualcomm Keynote at CES

Steve Mollenkopf, the CEO of Qualcomm, gave one of the keynotes at the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
5G , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , IoT , Qualcomm , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

Bluetooth 5, 4.2, Bluetooth Classic, and Bluetooth LE...Confused Yet?

What is Bluetooth 5? 4.2? Bluetooth Classic? Bluetooth Smart? Low Energy? The naming…

• 6 min read
BLE , bluetooth , bluetooth 4.2 , Bluetooth 5.0 , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Security the Google Way

The latest RISC-V workshop was held at Google. In the middle of the day, there was…

• 3 min read
security , risc-v , nsa , google , bios lockdown , rowhammer , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 16th to 20th 2017

https://youtu.be/ympju1edOh8 Coming from my office at Cadence Monday: Review…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Qualcomm , ADAS , privacy , esd alliance

Breakfast Bytes

RISCy Business: Next Hogan Evening at ESD Alliance Is RISC-V

The ESD Alliance Emerging Companies have been organizing a series of evening events…

• 2 min read
risc-v , Cadence Academic Network , ESDA , risc-v foundation , Hogan , Jim Hogan , esd allliance , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Breakfast Bytes

CES Highlights

Happy New Year, and the first week of January means it is the Consumer Electronics…

• 4 min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , autonomous , virtual reality , drone , ADAS , augmented reality , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Evolution of Ethernet: The World Before Ethernet

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a three-part series on Ethernet…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , VIP , Ethernet

Breakfast Bytes

ACE Awards: Palladium Z1 Team Is Design Team of the Year

Every year, UBM, the parent company of EE TImes and EDN (and the organizer of several…

• 6 min read
design team of the year , palladium z1 , Palladium , ace awards , Emulation , Breakfast Bytes , ubm

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 9th to 13th 2017

https://youtu.be/33fiVk2BoKo Coming from Flamingo Hotel, Las Vegas at during…

• less than a min read
security , risc-v , ACE award , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , Palladium , encryption , privacy , esd alliance

Breakfast Bytes

MediaTek's Experience with Perspec

At CDNLive in Taiwan last year, MediaTek presented their experiences with Perspec…

• 3 min read
CDNLive , Perspec , cdnlive taiwan , mediatek , System Verifier , Breakfast Bytes
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