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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

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR15 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , IC Release Blog Announcement , Virtuoso
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Open the Pod Bay Doors, HAL

50 years ago today was the release of 2001: A Space Odyssey. The movie came about…

• 5 min read
kubrick , arthur c. clarke , 2001 a space odessey , 2001

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Reusing Variables through CSV Export and Import

Do you have some specific variables in a test and wonder if you could have a way…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , custom/analog , Explorer , Analog Simulation , analog , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Assembler , ADE Assembler

Verification

Xcelium's New Save and Restart Saves You Time

You may have heard about the overhaul to the old save/restart mechanism that was…

• 2 min read
save and restart , xcelium , save and restore , checkpointing

Learning and Support

The Evolution of Cadence Help - I

Change, being a fact of life, is inevitable even for software systems. We have come…

• 1 min read
Self-Help , videos , Self Learning , what's new , Support , Cadence Help , Help resource , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Semiconductor Specialization Versus Valuation

At SEMICON China, Wally Rhines gave one of the keynotes on the opening day. It was…

• 4 min read
Wally Rhines , Semiconductor , consolidation

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 9th to 13th 2018

https://youtu.be/xEgjpNWtC1I Coming from Santa Clara Convention Center Theater…

• less than a min read
CDNLive , linley group , h-1b , Tensilica , microprocessor

Breakfast Bytes

How Low Can You Go?

I slipped into an obscure bar in the no-man's-land between Santana Row and downtown…

• 6 min read
3nm , imec , 5nm

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Interfaces—If You’re Not First, You’re Last

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesday video, Tom Hackett recounts two personal experiences…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , IP , LPDDR , NVMe , USB , SoC Interface , Type-C

Verification

New AMBA 5 ACE/AXI Specification and Its Support in Cadence ACE/AXI VIP

As discussed in the previous installments of the blog, the recent update of the AMBA…

• 3 min read
amba5 , Verification IP , ACE VIP , AXI VIP , AMBA

Breakfast Bytes

Deep Blue, AlphaGo, and AlphaZero

There are three major events in computers learning to play board games at a very…

• 6 min read
artificial intelligence , alphago , alphazero , go , deep blue , chess

Verification

NVMe Express 1.3: Addressing the Storage Needs of the Data Revolution from Enterprise…

The amount of data we are generating and consuming has exploded in recent years.…

• 2 min read
Verification IP , NVM Express , NVMe , IoT , VIP , cloud , big data , storage , PCIe , PCI Express , data centers

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON China: Big, Really Big

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Dick Selwood because…

• 9 min read
semicon , semicon china , 3D NAND , DRAM , 200mm

Verification

List of TLM Analysis Ports: Where Is This Packet Coming From?

Let’s say that you got an invitation from the police station nearest your home to…

• 4 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , team specman , xcelium

Breakfast Bytes

Clayton Christensen and the Innovator's Dilemma

One of the most readable and influential business books of the last 20 years was…

• 9 min read
christensen , kodak , innovator's dilemma , digital equipment corporation

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: What if I Want to Disable the Filtered Corners?

You'll now be an expert at using the Corner Filters in Virtuoso ADE Assembler and…

• 4 min read
Corners , ADE Explorer , filter , Filtering , ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , ADE Assembler

The India Circuit

A Long Way From The 80's: New Kids On The Technology Block

I was cruising through Facebook today and saw a video posted by George Takei Presents…

• 3 min read
Government of India , Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham , RayBaby , Indian elections , prosthetic , electronic voting machine

Breakfast Bytes

Hennessy and Patterson Receive the 2018 Turing Award

The 2018 Turing Award, informally the Nobel prize in Computer Science, has been awarded…

• 5 min read
risc-v , hennessey , MIPS , patterson , RISC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Some Don't Like It Hot: Thermal Model Exchange

Engineers today are faced with complex as well rapid design changes that require…

• 2 min read
CFD , neutral file format , electrical-thermal co-simulation , Sigrity , thermal , PowerDC

Breakfast Bytes

Tools and Processors for Computer Vision...and the Summit

When I was at embedded world in Nuremberg recently, I ran into Jeff Bier, the head…

• 3 min read
Embedded Vision Summit , Embedded Vision Alliance , Tensilica , vision , neural networks
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