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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB PI Discontinuity Modeling? See For Yourself in SPB16.3!

The current Allegro PCB Power Integrity (PI) tool is fast, but not accurate enough…

• 1 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , PI , SPB16.3 , Integrity Check , discontinuity modeling , PCB PI , Signal Intregrity , SigXP UI , SPB 16.3 , Power Integrity , High Speed , PCB power integrity , SPB , electromagnetic , PCB Signal integrity , Allegro PCB Editor , SI analysis and modeling , Allegro

RF Engineering

My Favorite nport Settings for Spectre and SpectreRF

The nport component located in analogLib can be used in circuits for Spectre and…

• 4 min read
nport , RF , RF Simulation , Circuit simulation , RFIC , Spectre RF , Analog Simulation , nport settings , Spectre , analogLib

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor 3D Viewing? Oh My – Check Out SPB16.3!

The SPB16.3 Allegro PCB Editor has a new 3D Viewer! Viewing a 3D rendering of the…

• less than a min read
PCB , PCB Layout and routing , SPB16.3 , mechanical parts , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , design , "PCB design" , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , 3D viewer , Allegro

Verification

Video: DVCon 2011 Update From NextOp CEO Yunshan Zhu

At DVCon 2011 I had the opportunity to catch-up with NextOp's CEO Yunshan Zhu, where…

• less than a min read
Cadence Connections , NextOp , uvm , ABV , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Zhu , Palladium XP , SVA , DVcon , assertion synthesis , MDV , IEV , Formal verification , IFV , IES-XL

Verification

Save The Date: Free Webinar on Automated SoC Connectivity Verification This Thursday…

We interrupt our technically oriented blogging to shamelessly promote a free webinar…

• 1 min read
ABV , methodology , Functional Verification , formal , SoC Connectivity , IEV , Formal verification , IFV

Analog/Custom Design

Is China Ready for Next Generation Mixed-signal Design?

A Chinese design engineer told me that his manager once told him: "You do not have…

• 4 min read
China , mixed-signal ToT , tech on tour , abstraction , EDA360 , analog , Mixed-Signal , Convergence , intent , japan , Silicon Realization , mixed signal , SoCs

Analog/Custom Design

Rapid Analog Prototyping - Handcrafted Layout Gets a Needed Productivity Boost

As more and more custom/analog designs migrate to advanced process nodes (<65nm)…

• 4 min read
AMS , parasitic-aware design , PAD , RAP , Virtuoso IC6.1.5 , custom/analog , PCells , Advanced Node , analog , Constraint-driven , IC 6.1.5 , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso , rapid analog prototyping , Custom IC Design , modgens , Virtuoso Layout Suite , parasitics

Analog/Custom Design

Early Analysis is Key – Parasitic-Aware Design

Decreasing geometries and increasing design complexity are making the task of designing…

• 3 min read
parasitic-aware design , Analog Design Environment , PAD , Virtuoso IC6.1.5 , IC 6.1.5 , ADE , Virtuoso , ADE-GXL , ADE-XL , parasitics

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Capture OLE Object Placing? You Can Easily Do This in SPB16.3!

Object Linking and Embedding ( OLE ) support in SPB16.3 Allegro Design Entry CIS…

• 2 min read
"capture CIS" , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , Design Entry CIS , OrCAD Capture , SPB 16.3 , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , OLE , SPB , design , OrCAD , object placing , Design Entry , PCB Capture

Digital Design

28 nm IC Design: The Devil Is In The Details

Smaller process technologies are enticing chip makers with bigger rewards from their…

• 4 min read
EDI , lithography , CMP , Litho , 28nm , DRC , metal thickness , LVS , Advanced Node , NanoRoute , encounter , via rules , LPE , digital , Silicon Realization , Digital Implementation , interconnect rules , Variation , stress , parasitics

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.5: Software and Fine Red Wine

Software, like fine red wine, can get better with age as well -- but it requires…

• 7 min read
AMS , parasitic-aware design , Low Power , Virtuoso IC6.1.5 , custom/analog , Analog Simulation , analog , Constraint-driven , IC 6.1.5 , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso , mixed signal , Custom IC Design , DFM , parasitics

Verification

A Modest Proposal: Using Formal to Close Coverage Gaps

In my last blog post , I summarized some of our activities at DVCon and mentioned…

• 4 min read
NextOp , coverage , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , BugScope , Breker , DVcon , assertion synthesis , assertions , Closure , metrics , CVC , Formal verification

Verification

DATE Spotlights System Development University Investment in Europe

In this guest blog Markus Winterholer, R&D engineer at Cadence, explains why he's…

• 2 min read
university , DATE , Winterholer , UML , Daedalus , University Booth , VOCIS , System Design and Verification

RF Engineering

Tips for Simulating a Transmit Mixer in SpectreRF

Some typical questions that I receive from newer SpectreRF users are: How do I simulate…

• 8 min read
RF , RF Simulation , Spectre RF , ADE-L , Analog Simulation , MMSIM , spectreRF , Spectre , RF design , harmonic balance , mixer

Digital Design

Encounter Puzzler #3 Solution: Renaming a Net Logically

Once again, the Encounter Digital Implementation designer community has stepped up…

• 4 min read
conformal , dbGet , net renaming , encounter , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation , puzzler , tcl

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About ADW’s Flow Manager? Check Out the ADW16.3 Release and See!

The ADW16.3 Allegro Design Workbench has a desktop cockpit that allows engineers…

• 4 min read
PCB , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , part developer , DEHDL , mechanical parts , Directive Lockhing , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , High Speed , Allegro Design Workbench , Library flow , SPB , LRM , PCB Editor , Design Entry HDL , design data management , design , Library Revision Manager , "PCB design" , PCB design , Design Entry , ADW 16.3 , Allegro PCB Editor , Librarians , ConceptHDL , library , ADW , Schematic

Verification

Video: Optimizing Area and Power Using Formal Methods

At DVCon 2011, a paper presented by Freescale and Cadence described a truly novel…

• 1 min read
Low Power , ABV , methodology , Formal Analysis , formal , Freescale , Incisive , Chris Komar , DVcon , IFV

Verification

Video: New Cadence Verification IP Catalog (With Denali Inside!)

Clearly UVM 1.0 was the main story at DVCon last week, but there was other big news…

• less than a min read
uvm , Functional Verification , ABVIP , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , EDA360 , Verification IP modeling , DVcon , eRM

Verification

TLM 2.0, UVM 1.0 and Functional Verification

The DVCon 2011 conference was held this week and the Accellera Universal Verification…

• 8 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , TLM , Functional Verification , OVM , TLM 2.0 , ports , DVcon , Accellera , SystemC , Accellera VIP TSC , VMM , verification
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