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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

Corporate News

Building a Future Beyond Boundaries with Honda and Cadence

We at Cadence are proud to be a long-term partner of Honda R&D (HGRX), and our collaboration…

Corporate
• 6 min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , AI

Corporate News

CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela Samuel
• 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
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Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - A Real-Life Encounter with 3 Benefits of USB Type-C

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett describes his experience…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , USB Type-C , USB

Breakfast Bytes

Autonomous Cars—Are We There Yet?

This is the second of two posts on the CASPA Symposium on Autonomous Driving. The…

• 7 min read
lidar , chinese semiconductor professionals association , caspa , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

From China through Cadence to IMEC

Zhan Gao studied microelectronics in the Xidian University in China and after getting…

• 1 min read
Cadence interns , Interns , Cadence Academic Network , imec , ATPG

Breakfast Bytes

CASPA's Autonomous Driving Symposium

Recently, CASPA, the Chinese-American Semiconductor Professionals Association, held…

• 6 min read
lidar , chinese semiconductor professionals association , caspa , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes

Digital Design

Have DRC Tools Run Out of Steam? – Part 2

We are continuing the physical verification blog posts with more questions we hear…

• 3 min read
massively scalable , DRC , multithread , distributed processing

Breakfast Bytes

ESD Alliance CEO Panel: April 6th

In the days when the ESD Alliance was still called EDAC, they used to organize a…

• 4 min read
cadence , ceo forum , EDA , ARM , synopsys , Breakfast Bytes , esd alliance , Mentor

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Controlling the Information Displayed on Outputs Setup and…

In Virtuoso ADE Explorer and Virtuoso ADE Assembler , it’s not unusual to see a large…

• 3 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso ADE , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

My Breakfast with Lucio

There is a famous 1981 movie called My Dinner with Andre. If you've not seen it,…

• 5 min read
open source ip , IoT , lanza techventures , Lucio Lanza , Internet of Things , Breakfast Bytes , efabless

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) Architecture

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a two-part series, Megha…

• less than a min read
object detection , deep learning , convolutional neural networks , CNN

Breakfast Bytes

How Lucio Went from Italy to EDA via Intel

Tomorrow, I'll be talking about one of Lucio Lanza's latest areas of interest, having…

• 5 min read
Intel , olivetti , lanza techventures , Lucio Lanza , Daisy , Phil Kaufman , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview April 3rd to 7th 2017

https://youtu.be/juyMucCfa-I Coming from the Cadence parking lot Monday…

• less than a min read
security , Automotive , autonomous driving , linley group , mgm resorts , linley autonomous , ADAS , gomac

Breakfast Bytes

The SDE Circle of Life Today

This is the second part of a two-part post about the SDE Circle of Life. The first…

• 5 min read
Automotive , SDE , mobile , system design enablement , iPhone

Breakfast Bytes

The SDE Circle of Life

There seems to be a big picture phenomenon that I like to call the System Design…

• 5 min read
Automotive , SDE , mobile , system design enablement

Verification

A Seamless Path to the Portable Stimulus Standard

In our last blog post , we reviewed some of the activities at the recent Design and…

• 3 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Léman Micro Devices: Blood Pressure on Your Smartphone

One of the most interesting things I saw at MWC was a meeting I had with Mark-Eric…

• 6 min read
Léman Micro Devices , medical electronics , mobile , cadence hosted design environment , blood pressure , Smartphone

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Symposium 28...22...16...12...7...

This is the second of two posts about last week's TSMC Technology Symposium. The…

• 7 min read
OIP , n5 , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , n7+ , n7

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha…

• less than a min read
Automotive , deep learning , vision , convolutional neural networks , mobile , ADAS , CNN

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 27th to 31st 2017

https://youtu.be/-_33atq9vRY Coming from National Automobile Museum, Reno,…

• less than a min read
ESDA , circle of life , lanza techventures , Lucio Lanza , system design enablement , SDA , esd alliance , virtual dummy metal fill

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Roadmaps

TSMC had their annual Technology Symposium last week. As always, my post comes with…

• 6 min read
Automotive , n5 , IoT , TSMC , HPC , n7 , mobile , n10
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