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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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Verification

DVCon? Are You Sure It's Not UVMCon or MSVCon?

As I write this, I've just returned from the most important conference and tradeshow…

• 2 min read
uvm , Functional Verification , MSV , EDA360 , Mixed-Signal , random test , DVcon , Accellera , mixed signal , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Cadence Online Support Product Pages? – Check Out This List!

I wrote about the new Cadence Online Support features in one of my blog posts last…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SCM , PCB Layout and routing , SI , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , AMS , SiP , PCB PI , IC Packaging , Design Entry CIS , social networking , Signal Intregrity , DEHDL , FPGA-PCB Co-Design , Digital SiP design , specctra , SigXP UI , FPGA System Planner , OrCAD Capture , Allegro 16.3 , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , High Speed , APD , Support , Smoke Analysis , SigWave , SPB , webinar , SPB16.2 , PCB Editor , Constraint Manager , Design Entry HDL , ASA , Layout , design , FSP , OrCAD , PCB Signal integrity , PCB design , Design Entry , windows 7 , Allegro PCB Editor , Librarians , SI analysis and modeling , ConceptHDL , SPB16.01 , OrCAD PCB Editor , GRE , Online Support , library , ADW , PCB Capture , Schematic , FPGA , Allegro

Verification

Specman Application Note: Improving Verification Productivity With Dynamic Load and…

Are you looking for new approaches to improve your verification productivity by 40…

• 3 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , vPlan , simvision , EDA , Incisive , e language , team specman , specman elite , Aspect Oriented Programming , testbench , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , AOP , IES-XL

Digital Design

Encounter Puzzler #3: Renaming a Net Logically

The other day a designer E-mailed me: How can we rename a net in Encounter? I followed…

• 1 min read
dbGet , Encounter Digital Implementation , puzzler , tcl

Verification

Do You Have a DATE with Software? Cadence Does!

How important is the software market to Cadence and as an element of the EDA360 vision…

• 3 min read
DATE , IP , IP-XACT , debug , RTL , System Design and Verification , SoC , virtual prototype , software , Virtual Platforms

Verification

At DVCon 2011 Next Week

Next week my colleagues and I will be at DVCon 2011 in force, ready to regale you…

• 2 min read
Industry Insights , ABV , TLM , Functional Verification , formal , OSCI , OVM , EDA360 , Coverage-Driven Verification , EDA , Mixed Signal Verification , Incisive , Mixed-Signal , DVcon , OOP , multi-language , SystemC , Formal verification , techtorial , AOP

Verification

Cadence Investment in SystemC Continues -- NASCUG SystemC Day at DVCon

Don't lose touch with what's new in the world of SystemC! Cadence is a long time…

• 2 min read
virtual platforms , virtual prototypes , System Design and Verification , OSCI , DVcon , Accellera , Jim Hogan , IEEE P1666 , SystemC , NASCUG , SystemC Day

Digital Design

Tortoise Versus Hare … or How to Improve Your Time to Tapeout Using In-Design Si…

Now that Wei Lii Tan has helped you with your New Year’s resolution to “create a…

• 2 min read
dynamic rail analysis , Static timing analysis , ets , EDI system , Signoff Analysis , DRC , design rules , LVS , SI analysis , EPS , noise analysis , EDI 10.1 , Virtuoso , Digital Implementation , In-Design Signoff , Timing analysis , Power Analysis , signoff , tapeout , IR drop , Digital end-to-end flow , EM Failures , timing convergence , DFM

Analog/Custom Design

Q&A: IBM Modeling Team Describes Advanced SOI Qualification Flow In Cadence MMSIM…

Circuits implemented using sub-micron technologies require designers to meet tighter…

• 9 min read
APS , characterization , Compact Modeling Council , model qualification , IBM , MMSIM , Monte Carlo , spectreMDL , Spectre , CMC , SOI , Custom IC Design , Spice model verification , BSIMSOI

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI Signal Quality Screening? SPB16.3 has a Few New Enhancements

Signals are subject to degradation when they are transmitted through a channel. High…

• 3 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SI , SPB16.3 , Signal Intregrity , SigXP UI , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , High Speed , SPB , PCB design , signal quality screening , SI analysis and modeling , Allegro

Verification

Celebrating the UVM 1.0 Release, or the Gadfly Eats a Little Crow

As I hope you have all seen by now, Accellera has announced the official production…

• 2 min read
uvm , methodology , Functional Verification , VIP , VIP-TSC , Register Package , Accellera , gadfly , verification

Verification

The Increasing Role of SystemC in System Design

Today's post is less technical and a bit more theoretical, but I promise that my…

• 4 min read
debug , C , system design , SystemC , Virtual Platforms , Synthesis , Modeling , C++ , debugging , simulation , System Design and Verification

Verification

Formal Driven MDV – A New Tool for your Toolbox

Have you considered adding formal to your metric driven verification flow? Maybe…

• 2 min read
metric-driven , coverage , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Incisive , MDV , simulation , Formal verification

Verification

Being a Part of Something Truly Remarkable - UVM

For just over two years I have had the honor of playing a role in a dramatic example…

• 2 min read
uvm , Functional Verification , EDA360 , Incisive , Accellera VIP TSC , synopsys , IES , Mentor

Verification

The Tale of the Silicon Re-Spin and the Bug That Got Away

I'd like to continue my blog series discussing corner-case conditions of various…

• 4 min read
conformal , corner cases , clock domain crossings , CDC , bug , FIFO

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
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