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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
• less than a min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , japanese blog

SoC and IP

Powering Scale Up and Scale Out with 224G SerDes for UALink and Ultra Ethernet

As AI workloads grow in scale and complexity, networks are challenged to keep up…

Sheryl G
• 3 min read
Design IP , featured , 224G-LR , 224G SerDes , UALink
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Digital Design

Evolution of Design Exploration and Planning

The great architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said "you can fix it on the drafting…

• 2 min read
EDI , First Encounter , EDI system , partitioning , Floorplanning , encounter digital implementation system , Encounter Digital Implementation , Digital end-to-end flow , Floorplanning and Prototyping

Digital Design

Guest User Blog: dbShape For All Your Logical Operation Needs

This is a guest post from Jason Gentry at Avago. I hope you enjoy this useful piece…

• 4 min read
EDI , Avago , encounter , EDI 10.1 , dbShape , db access , Digital Implementation , Gentry , logical operations , tcl

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro Router and Highlighting? You’ll need the SPB16.3 Release…

Just a quick post this week on a new Allegro PCB Router feature in the SPB16.3 release…

• less than a min read
PCB , SPB16.3 , blind vias , Routing , specctra , Allegro 16.3 , layer stacks , SPB 16.3 , PCB Editor , Layout , via , design , "PCB design" , PCB design , highlighting , Allegro PCB Editor , buried vias , Allegro

Verification

The Role of Coverage in Formal Verification, Part 3

.special { font-family: 'Courier New' !important; } In the last post of this…

• 5 min read
ABV , methodology , verification strategy , coverage , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , formal , Coverage-Driven Verification , Incisive , SVA , PSL , metric-driven verification , coverage driven verification (CDV) , assertions , IEV , simulation , IFV

Verification

Why the Demand for Acceleration and Emulation is Growing

The dream of any marketer is a growing demand for its product line. Let me start…

• 3 min read
emulator , ASIC , Acceleration , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , OVM , Palladium , Low power verification and analysis , Emulation , virtual prototype , System Design & Verification , Hardware/software co-verification , simulation , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Shorter, Predictable Design Cycles (SPDC) – Ensuring Critical Signals Have a Return…

This is third in the series of blog posts about making your design cycles predictable…

• 2 min read
PCB , DDR2 , High Speed , webinar , PCB design , return path , PCI Express , SATA , Standards based Interfaces , DDR3 , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Assertion Based Verification Methodology – Reality or a Dream? (Part 2)

The design and verification methodology for analog circuits has not changed much…

• 3 min read
ABV , assertion-based , Analog Simulation , analog , SoC , Mixed-Signal , SVA , PSL , AMS simulation , assertions , mixed signal , wreal , Custom IC Design , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro Measure, Grids and Formulas? See For Yourself in SPB16

This week, I’m tossing together a mix of a few new SPB16.3 Allegro PCB Editor features…

• 2 min read
grids , PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , formulas , PCB Editor , High-Density Interconnect , Layout , via , design , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Cline change , HDI , microvia , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Advanced Mixed-Signal Designs Demand a Unified Methodology

Mobile, automotive, consumer and medical applications require the productive realization…

• 4 min read
conformal , RF , mixed-signal seminars , Low Power , CPF , abstraction , analog , ECOs , Mixed-Signal , Convergence , intent , Silicon Realization , mixed signal , signoff , SoCs

Verification

De-Mystifying SystemC: What is TLM?

In my last post I briefly mentioned that when designing hardware with SystemC, you…

• 2 min read
High-Level Synthesis , Registers , TLM , Models , C to Silicon , transaction level modeling , SystemC , Modeling , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro Continues Demonstration of New PDN Analysis Technology at DesignCon…

Today at DesignCon, drop by the Cadence booth to see TeamAllegro continue the demonstration…

• 1 min read
PCB SI , PCB , PCB PI , PDN , Power Delivery Network , PCB Signal integrity , IR drop , power , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Capture Locking Objects? The Secret's in the SPB16.3 Release!

The Allegro Design Entry CIS (Capture - Allegro flow) now includes an object locking…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , Design Entry CIS , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , SPB , design , OrCAD , Design Entry , Schematic , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Cisco and Cadence Present Co-design Paper at DesignCon

Today at DesignCon, be sure to drop by Room 203 at 11:05 and see Cisco and Cadence…

• 1 min read
SiP , DesignCon , IC Package , Digital SiP design , Cisco , IC Packaging & SiP design , Physical layout and co-design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro Showing New PCB PDN Analysis Technology at DesignCon 2011

Today at DesignCon, drop by the Cadence booth to see TeamAllegro demonstrate the…

• 1 min read
PCB , PCB PI , PDN , PCB Signal and power integrity , Power Delivery Network , full wave , IR drop , power , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro to Boost Power of PCB PDN Solution – Sneak Peek at DesignCon 2011

The Cadence booth at DesignCon 2011 will provide visitors with a demonstration of…

• 1 min read
PCB , DesignCon , PCB PI , PDN , PCB Signal and power integrity , TeamAllegro , Power Delivery Network , full wave , IR drop , power , Allegro

Verification

What Could Be Simpler than a Request-Acknowledge Handshake?

My last few blog posts have included three corner-case conditions that led to bugs…

• 3 min read
Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , formal , intent , assertions , simulation

Digital Design

Tackling your Greatest Chip Design Challenges with the Cadence Digital End-to-End…

It hasn't been that long, but do you recall your new year's resolution? Eat healthier…

• 6 min read
ECO , conformal , Low Power , Encounter Test , gigahertz , giga-gate , 3D-IC , 3DIC , encounter digital implementation system , Mixed-Signal , encounter , rtl compiler , Silicon Realization , Digital Implementation , 3D , mixed signal , Digital end-to-end flow

Verification

The Role of Coverage in Formal Verification, Part 2 Continued…

Recall that three main questions need to be answered to attain coverage in formal…

• 3 min read
ABV , methodology , verification strategy , coverage , debug , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Incisive , SVA , PSL , metric-driven verification , assertions , IEV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About ADW’s Library Revision Manager and Browser? Check out the ADW16…

Here are just some of the new capabilities available in the ADW16.3 Allegro Design…

• less than a min read
PCB , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , DEHDL , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Allegro Design Workbench , Library flow , LRM , Design Entry HDL , component browser , design , Library Revision Manager , PCB design , Design Entry , ADW 16.3 , Librarians , ConceptHDL , library , Schematic , Allegro
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