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Explore Photonics and Quantum Technologies at CadenceCONNECT 2025

The intersection of photonics and quantum computing marks a pivotal moment in advancing…

Vinod Khera
• 1 min read
Quantum States , featured , cadenceconnect , photonics , Quantum Technology

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
IC 23.1 , featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , Virtuoso

SoC and IP

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

MBhatnagar
• 3 min read
ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die

Corporate News

Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC
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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Use Colin Thomson's New RAK to Learn How Legacy Designs Can be Made XL…

Are you bringing in a Layout L design, or a design made outside of Virtuoso into…

• 3 min read
Layout XL-compliance , Virtuosity , Layout design , Custom IC Design , VLS XL , Layout Editing , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

AMI for DDR5 Made Easy

In a post last week, I covered IBIS and AMI. One big change that is happening is…

• 5 min read
ddr5 , DDR4 , ami builder , DRAM , Sigrity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Reduce Time-to-Market for Your System-level Designs Using PSpice Systems Option

Looking for a technology to simulate analog/digital mix-signal electronics alongside…

• 2 min read
co-simulation , PSPICE , System-Level Design , OrCAD

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 Now Available

The IC6.1.7 ISR19 and ICADV12.3 ISR19 production releases are now available for download…

• 1 min read
IC , ICADV12.3 , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Some Real Russian Hacking

Patrick Wardle and Mikhail Sosonkin were in Moscow for a PHDays (positive hacking…

• 7 min read
security , rsa conference , hbo , rsa

Breakfast Bytes

Qualcomm and Arm Drink Their Own Champagne

Everyone in EDA is familiar with the phenomenon where the internal testing of a tool…

• 5 min read
arm server , Qualcomm , xcelium , ARM

The India Circuit

5 Reasons to Submit an Abstract for CDNLive India

Call for Presentations (CFP) for CDNLive India is now open! While this is something…

• 2 min read
CDNLive India , CDNLive

Breakfast Bytes

RSA Cryptographers' Panel

The RSA Conference is the biggest conference in security. This year there are 50…

• 11 min read
quantum computing , security , rsa conference , rsa , cryptography , Spectre

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Sensors: Concepts and Trends

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Robert…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , lidar , radar , camera

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (8 of 8)

Automated Compliance Checking With detailed post-layout interconnect in place, and…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , IBIS-AMI , PCIe , Signal Integrity , Compliance Checking , SerDes , Sigrity

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 30th to May 4th 2018

https://youtu.be/Zpui6QhXM_o Coming from The San Jose Tech Museum (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
ddr5 , AMI , the tech , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , algorithmic modeling interface

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Tech Blog Series: Sensitivity Analysis+Optimization — Now That's Formidable!

Anyone who designs complex circuits and claims they don’t use the Optimizer on their…

• less than a min read
RF , OrCAD Capture , PSPICE , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Linley: Training in the Datacenter, Inference at the Edge

In mid-April I was at the Linley Processor Conference. As usual, Linley Gwennap gave…

• 6 min read
artificial intelligence , linley group , IoT , Linley , Tensilica , neural network , datacenter

Academic Network

ISPD18 Contest and Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions

ISPD is the International Symposium on Physical Design. The ISPD contest is a well…

• 4 min read
university , ISPD18 Contest , Cadence Academic Network , academia , EDA , Cadence Academic Network Cloud Solutions , university program

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: What's New in Run plan – Part I

The Run Plan assistant in Virtuoso ADE Assembler has proved to be one of the most…

• 2 min read
Run Plans , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , calibration , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Run Plan , runplan , Verifier Run Plan , Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Symposium Preview: Note New Location!

Before I go any further, after years and years of being at the San Jose Convention…

• 3 min read
TSMC Tech Symposium , fabless , TSMC , 5nm , 7nm , foundry

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 23rd to 27th 2018

https://youtu.be/h5Hs6zxcALc Coming from RSA Conference, Moscone West, San Francisco…

• less than a min read
security , rsa conference , rsa , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , Linley , Tensilica

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive EMEA Preview

The thing everyone always wants to know about CDNLive EMEA, since it is held in Munich…

• 6 min read
Munich , CDNLive , CDNLive EMEA , münchen

Breakfast Bytes

AMI and IBIS: Who Put the Eye in AMI?

Have you heard of IBIS and AMI? If you are French, you know that one is a chain of…

• 6 min read
dfe , AMI , equalization , IBIS , SerDes
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