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Ambarella Redefines Edge AI Performance with Cadence

Ambarella stands at the forefront of edge AI processing, pioneering low-power, high…

Corporate
• 4 min read
Edge AI , featured , Ambarella

Corporate News

Explore Photonics and Quantum Technologies at CadenceCONNECT 2025

The intersection of photonics and quantum computing marks a pivotal moment in advancing…

Vinod Khera
• 1 min read
Quantum States , featured , cadenceconnect , photonics , Quantum Technology

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC23.1 ISR16 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 2 min read
IC 23.1 , featured , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release , Virtuoso

SoC and IP

The Next-Generation UCIe IP Subsystem for Advanced Package Designs

With the rapidly increasing connectivity demands driven by AI/ML and HPC/data center…

MBhatnagar
• 3 min read
ucie , Design IP , featured , TSMC , die-to-die
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Digital Design

Encounter Puzzler: Where Did My Fences Go?

A while back I visited a customer I see on a fairly regular basis. As soon as I entered…

• 1 min read
fences , Floorplanning , encounter , Digital Implementation , puzzler

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro PCB Editor Polygon Selection? Look at SPB16.3 and See!

The Allegro PCB Editor allows selection of items by several means. In preselect mode…

• 1 min read
polygon , PCB , SPB16.3 , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , PCB Capture , Allegro

SoC and IP

SD Association adds pins to SD card format to boost transfer rates to 300 Mbytes…

Hot on the heels of the rollout of high-speed SDHC and SDXC UHS-I cards that approach…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Toshiba to ship 32-Gbyte SDHC UHS-I cards with 95/80-Mbytes/sec read/write speed…

If you’re a rabid fan of Canon dSLRs, you already know of the many controversial…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Rice U’s silicon-oxide memristor more phenomenon than device, for now

Last Friday, I wrote about a memristor development out of Jim Tour’s nano research…

• 3 min read

SoC and IP

Update on Viking’s SATADIMM SSD--no cable needed, Sandforce SSD controller

Previously, I wrote about Viking’s SATADIMM, an SSD built into a standard DDR DIMM…

• 1 min read

Verification

Users Employ Specman Constrained-Random Verification for Complex IP

Two recent customer examples have shown the effectiveness of Specman constrained…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Cadence VIP portfolio , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , EDA , Funcional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , AOP , IES-XL

SoC and IP

Rice University reports that silicon oxide also good for memristors

Hot on the heels of the announcement earlier this week that Hynix is now an active…

• less than a min read

Verification

Performance Tips and Tricks: Coding e Ports for Enhanced Performance

This blog entry builds on last week's Tips and Tricks posting in which we discussed…

• 3 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , vr_ad , OVM-e , Funcional Verification , team specman , AOP , IES-XL

SoC and IP

The 6-minute video guide to memristors (must-see video)

With the August 31 announcement that Hynix is now working with HP to bring the semi…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Chemical vapor deposition creates improved material for PCM (phase-change memory…

Yesterday, semiconductor materials manufacturing specialist ATMI and Ovonics, the…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Commodore and its iconic all-in-one computers resurrected with new guts, including…

Everyone familiar with the arc of personal computers knows Commodore. The calculator…

• 1 min read

Verification

Join Us at FMCAD October 20-23

Are you deeply interested in formal and assertion-based verification technology?…

• less than a min read
Alok Jain , ABV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , FMCAD , IEV , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About AMS Simulator New Design Templates? They’re in the SPB16.3 Release

What's Good About AMS Simulator New Design Templates? They're in the SPB16.3 Release…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , AMS , AMS simulator , SPB 16.3 , PSPICE , AMS simulation , Design Entry , Schematic

Verification

All I Really Need to Know About MDV I Learned From Hollywood - Part 2

My last blog entry began a series using quotes from Hollywood movies to illustrate…

• 2 min read
vPlan , verification planning , Verification IP modeling , metric-driven verification , MDV

SoC and IP

HP’s memristor finds a commercial semiconductor vendor: Hynix

The rumor at the recent Flash Memory Summit held earlier this month was that HP was…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

Toshiba 24nm, 64-Gbit NAND Flash: Just a silly nanometer shorter

Toshiba announced today that it has initiated mass production of NAND Flash memories…

• less than a min read

SoC and IP

17 SSDs reviewed by Tom’s Hardware

We’re still at the stage where there can be appreciable differences in the performance…

• 1 min read

SoC and IP

Huawei talks Smart Memory at Hot Chips 22: “The only practical solution”

Last week saw the 22nd Hot Chips conference, held at held Stanford University, and…

• 3 min read
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