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Cadence Recognized as TSMC OIP Partner of the Year at 2025 OIP Ecosystem Forum

The semiconductor industry thrives on collaboration, and few pairings exemplify this…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , OIP Partner of the Year , AI-Driven Design , TSMC

Cadence Japan

境界を越えて、未来を組み上げろ―ホンダ×ケイデンス

「AIは、物理世界にどう根付いていくのか？」をテーマに、本田技術研究所社 先進技術研究所（HGRX）との対談を通じて、AIと半導体の未来、フィジカルAIの可能性…

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , japanese blog

SoC and IP

Powering Scale Up and Scale Out with 224G SerDes for UALink and Ultra Ethernet

As AI workloads grow in scale and complexity, networks are challenged to keep up…

Sheryl G
• 3 min read
Design IP , featured , 224G-LR , 224G SerDes , UALink

Corporate News

AI Infra Summit Highlights: Cadence's Unique Design for AI and AI for Design

The AI Infra Summit 2025 was a great experience that left attendees buzzing with…

Corporate
• 7 min read
featured , AI Infra Summit 2025 , AI for design , Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform , design for AI
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RF Engineering

Inductors On Demand, at least one RF design task can be really automated!

Inductors, transformers and transmission lines are critical components in any high…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso PCD , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design , Virtuoso Passive Component Designer , wireless integrated circuit verification

Digital Design

Customer Experiences With Low-Power Design

Hello and welcome to the new Cadence community site, and my first blog post. You…

• 4 min read
Low-Power , Logic Design , Digital Implementation , The Power Forward Initiative

Verification

Emulation Drivers - A growing set of selection criteria

Some say that the growth of the emulation market in last few years was driven by…

• 2 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Emulation , Hardware/software co-verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA?

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA? Quite a bit actually! In…

• 1 min read
ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , PCB design , Differential Pair Support

Verification

The barriers to efficient System Level Design and Verification

The EDA industry been doing system level design and verification for years; we just…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification

Verification

Verification Hierarchy of Needs

Verification consultant Brian Bailey recently started blogging for Chip Design Magazine…

• 2 min read
Verification planning and management , System Design and Verification , Run and Debug

Analog/Custom Design

Hello from the custom design corner of Cadence

Greetings! My name is Steve Lewis and I'm a product marketing director working in…

• less than a min read
Custom IC Design

Verification

The value of chaos (really!)

Ordinarily chaos is bad thing. Yet like it or not, t he world your SoC lives in is…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification

Digital Design

The Case for Robust Database Access

The most frequently viewed forum post in the old cdnusers.org "Digital IC->Floorplanning…

• 3 min read
First Encounter , Hierarchical Module Ports , robust data access , Digital Implementation , CTS

Verification

Why is OVM important for Specman/e customers?

With all of the press and interest from customers adopting it, I am sure most of…

• 2 min read
Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , eRM

Analog/Custom Design

So, where is that mixed-signal behavioral model I ordered?

It has been said many time that SPICE, the analog engineers tool of choice, is virtually…

• 2 min read
Chip-level simulation , Electrical validation , Test , Block-level simulation , Virtuoso , AMS simulation , Circuit Design , Modeling , Custom IC Design

Verification

Report on the first OVM World Summit at DAC

At the recent Design Automation Conference (DAC) in Anaheim, Calif., Cadence did…

• 1 min read
DAC , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

PakSi-E "ocho" fuels Cadence Package SI solutions

In case you haven't heard, Allegro Package SI and Cadence SiP SI solutions now work…

• less than a min read
Digital SiP design , IC Packaging & SiP design , SI analysis and modeling

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Xrosstalk talks AMI

There's a great issue of Xrosstalk magazine out there that talks about algorthmic…

• less than a min read
PCB Signal and power integrity , SerDes , PCB design

RF Engineering

Senrinotabi

Greetings! My name is Art Schaldenbrand and I have been at Cadence for 12 years supporting…

• less than a min read
RF design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How many DEHDL (Concept) designers customize their DEHDL environment?

I'm curious with the availablity within DEHDL (ConceptHDL) of customizing the menus…

• less than a min read
DEHDL , Library and design data management , Front-end PCB design , ConceptHDL

Verification

'Verification Acceleration' vs. 'Simulation Acceleration'

Simulation acceleration and emulation technology has been commonly used to run faster…

Anonymous • 1 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Emulation , Verification Acceleration , Simulation acceleration

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Which SPB customers will be attending CDNLive! 2008 in San Jose?

While I've attended a few Cadence Corporate User Group events over the past years…

• 1 min read
SPB , Design Entry HDL , Front-end PCB design , PCB design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Lack of design-chain collaboration prevents SiP to go mainstream

A few years back, I was considering that the lack of an integrated design solution…

• 1 min read
backend implementation , IDMs , IC Packaging & SiP design , PDK , design chain
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