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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 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

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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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 Now Available

The IC6.1.7 ISR18 and ICADV12.3 ISR18 production releases are now available for download…

• 2 min read
IC , ICADV12.3 , ADE , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 26th to 30th 2018

https://youtu.be/dYLZaBsYBbA Coming from the Cadence cafeteria (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Embedded Vision Summit , 3nm , EDA , imec , Tensilica , vision , 5nm , innovator's dilemma

Breakfast Bytes

"Lick" Licklider, Unsung Hero of US Computer Science

During the war, there was a lot of computer technology developed in all of UK and…

• 5 min read
MIT , Stanford , Berkeley , cmu , lick licklider , PARC

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to the NVDIMM Standard

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday video, Marc Greenberg discusses the benefits…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , NVM , DDR , NVDIMM

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON China: Is This China's Decade?

One of the presentations on the opening day of SEMICON China, here in Shanghai, was…

• 5 min read
China , Taiwan , korea , KLA-Tencor , Semiconductor , japan

Verification

App Note Spotlight: Streamline Your SystemVerilog Code, Part I

Welcome to a special multi-part edition of the App Note Spotlight, where we’ll be…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , Optimize

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive, the New Season

It's nearly April and so it is the start of the CDNLive season. This year there are…

• 2 min read
Tom Beckley , CDNLive , chris re , Lip-Bu Tan , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Breakfast Bytes

SEMICON China: Me and 70,000 of My Closest Friends

If you want to know why I made the trek from California to Shanghai to attend SEMICON…

• 7 min read
semicon , semicon china , IoT , semi , m&a , Huawei

Breakfast Bytes

Semiconductor Rankings: Thanks for the Memory

I wrote recently about how Samsung's extraordinary 50+% year-on-year growth took…

• 8 min read
China , Memory , 3D NAND , NAND flash , DRAM , nor flash

The India Circuit

Shopping in Reality: How VR and AR Are Changing The Way We Shop

Like millions of Indians, I shop a lot online, whether for groceries, shoes or even…

• 4 min read
Lakme , online shopping , Kingfisher beer , SBI Life , Tata Motors , virtual reality , augmented reality

Breakfast Bytes

China Bike Rental

In the last couple of years, one of the biggest changes in China has been the arrival…

• 9 min read
China , uber , lyft , bicycle , mobile , mobike , ofo

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Signal Browsing Gets Easier with Advanced Search Options

Imagine what would happen if we were living in the world with no search engines.…

• 4 min read
ViVa-XL , custom/analog , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuosity , Circuit Design , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The 3 Methods of Memory Controller Port Arbitration

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Jing Liu describes three methods of port…

• less than a min read
DDR Controller , Port Arbitration , Whiteboard Wednesdays

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 19th to 23rd 2018

https://youtu.be/2-ErrC9yy2k Coming from SEMICON China, Shanghai (camera Tracy…

• less than a min read
semicon , semiconductor equipment , semicon china , licklider , EDA

Verification

Preparing Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Ratification

The Accellera Portable Stimulus Working Group met at the DVCon 2018 to move the process…

• less than a min read
pswg , Perspec , perspec system verifier , pss , portable stimulus

Breakfast Bytes

The Great Firewall of China

This is a continuation of yesterday's post on Walled Gardens . Arguably the greatest…

• 9 min read
China , Facebook , vpn

Breakfast Bytes

Walled Gardens

I'm in China this week, for SEMICON China, along with 70,000 of my closest friends…

• 4 min read
China , aol , google , Facebook , censorship , great firewall of china

Verification

Temporals, Reset, and Test Phases

One of the biggest challenges in dynamic functional verification is testing Reset…

• 4 min read
Specman , UVM e , Specman e , e , e language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Thermal Analysis of Package/PCB Systems: Challenges and Solutions

More and more package/PCB system designs are requiring thermal analysis. Power dissipation…

• 3 min read
PCB , PI , Power Integrity , Voltus , electrical-thermal co-simulation , thermal , PowerDC
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