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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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Samsung Foundry Forum: Roadmaps

I attended the second Samsung Foundry Forum. As seems to be traditional for foundries…

• 4 min read
8nm , Samsung , samsung foundry , Qualcomm , 5nm , 7nm , 10nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

A Brief Introduction to Xcelium

Welcome to the XTeam blog! We are a team of bloggers dedicated to showcasing the…

• less than a min read
Low Power , digital mixed signal , Functional Verification , Multi-Core , xcelium , parallel simulation

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Pre-Silicon Software Development with Protium and Palladium Platforms

We've already had CDNLive EMEA, but here is a look at a presentation from CDNLive…

• 5 min read
debug , android , Protium , Palladium , embedded software , software development , linux , Breakfast Bytes

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Schematic-Driven Simulation and Layout of Complex Photonic ICs

Photonics is transmitting data through fiber optic cables. As such, photonics is…

• 5 min read
PhoeniX Software , Lumerical , silicon photonics , Virtuoso , photonics , Breakfast Bytes

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Cadence at DAC

Yes, it's nearly here, the 54th Design Automation Conference in Austin, Texas (and…

• 7 min read
DAC , Joe Costello , expert bar , Cadence Theater , 54dac , Denali Party , Accellera , cooley troublemaker panel , #54dac , pss , cadence lunches , Breakfast Bytes , portable stimulus standard

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Von Neumann's 5 Bottlenecks and CCIX - Part 2

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Tom Hackett completes the story of the…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , ccix

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 12th to June 16th 2017

https://youtu.be/oikFfm15nw8 Coming from Samsung@First (camera Sean) Monday…

• less than a min read
kqed forum , embedded vision , Samsung , computer history museum , samsung foundry forum , EUV , FD-SOI

Digital Design

2017 Annual HLS Survey Results

As many of you know, Cadence (more correctly, “I”) recently performed an industry…

• 4 min read
High-Level Synthesis , survey , Stratus , HLS

Breakfast Bytes

Rowen: How to Start an Embedded Vision Company

The last presentation that I'll cover in its own post from this year's Embedded Vision…

• 6 min read
Chris Rowen , Embedded Vision Summit , embedded vision , Tensilica , Breakfast Bytes

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Bier Goggles: 1000X in 3 Years

Jeff Bier heads up the Embedded Vision Alliance (and, in his day job, he heads up…

• 4 min read
Embedded Vision Summit , deep neural networks , Embedded Vision Alliance , BDTI , dnn , neural networks , Breakfast Bytes

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Deep Understanding, Not Just Deep Vision

The keynote on the second day of the Embedded Vision Summit was by Jitendra Malik…

• 10 min read
convolutional neural nets , dnn , neural networks , CNN , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

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Lifting the Veil on Hololens

The opening keynote at the Embedded Vision Summit in Santa Clara was by Marc Pollefeys…

• 7 min read
hololens , microsoft , Embedded Vision Summit , Tensilica , vision , Breakfast Bytes

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview June 5th to June 9th 2017

https://youtu.be/C7nOhT8ey7g Coming from Cadence Cafeteria (camera Sean) …

• less than a min read
DAC , 54dac , palldium , Protium , embedded vision , Embedded Vision Alliance , silicon photonics , #54dac , Design Automation Conference

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Embedded Vision Summit: "It's a Visual World"

"It's a visual world," Tim Ramsdale of ARM said at one point in the recent Embedded…

• 12 min read
embedded vision , deep neural networks , Tensilica , convolutional neural networks , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Vision C5 DSP: A Solution to Current Challenges and Trends…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Megha Daga talks about how Cadence did…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , convolutional neural networks

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Virtuoso System Design Platform

Cadence was already talking about chip-package-board back in 2000 when I was putting…

• 3 min read
package , board , 2.5D packagin , Virtuoso , 3D packaging , interposer , Sigrity , Custom IC , Breakfast Bytes , Allegro

Academic Network

10 years Academic Network at CDNLive EMEA, a Reason To Celebrate!

From 15-17 May CDNLive EMEA opened again its doors for around 700 attendees from…

• 5 min read
Cadence Academic Network , CDNLive , BarCamp , Functional Verification , academic workshop , academia , MEMS Design Contest , CDNLive EMEA , Cadence Design Contest , university program

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary - Filtering Your Way Through Corners

Have you ever looked at the Corners Setup form and wished you had some way of finding…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Explorer , Analog Simulation , ADE , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

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HOT Party Remembers Gary Smith...and the Denali Party

Every year at DAC, Heart of Technology (HOT) organizes a charity event. This year…

• 2 min read
DAC , HOT , Heart of Technology , Gary Smith , sjsu , Design Automation Conference , Breakfast Bytes
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