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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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CES Review: Rain...and Some Consumer Electronics

I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) all week. For 116 days through…

• 7 min read
Automotive , Consumer Electronics , CES , CES2018 , virtual reality , augmented reality

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (5 of 8)

Efficient Interconnect Extraction Once physical layout is complete, (or at least…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , Multi-Gigabit , Interconnect Extraction , IBIS-AMI , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 15th to 19th 2018

https://youtu.be/MPkAPCQyFvY Coming from Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas…

• less than a min read
5G , meltdown , ken thompson , JUG , CES2018 , Spectre , 5nm , what's for breakfast? , JasperGold

Verification

User Extensions to DUT Error

A question was raised to stackoverflow about how can one extend the dut _error()…

• 2 min read
Specman , e code , advanced verification , e language

Verification

App Note Spotlight - Introduction to Connect Modules

Welcome to the App Note Spotlight—a bi-weekly series where the XTeam highlights an…

• 3 min read
app note , Functional Verification , App Note Spotlight , Connect Module , mixed signal

Breakfast Bytes

Post-Silicon Compute

At the SEMI Strategic Materials Conference (SMC) a few weeks ago, Lucian Shifren…

• 6 min read
moore's law , ARM , power , DTCO

The India Circuit

Exciting Trends in 2018: An Interview with Jaswinder Ahuja

Jaswinder Ahuja is well-known to everyone in the semiconductor and electronics industry…

• 5 min read
mahindra & mahindra , Electronic System Design and Manufacturing , startups , Tata Motors , Maruti , electric vehicle , 2018 , ESDM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - What to expect from TLM 2.0 Models for Memory Subsystems…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Vivek Nandakumar continues his explanation of…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , TLM 2.0

Breakfast Bytes

Virtuoso System Design Platform Is Product of the Year

The title of this post says it all, but I'd better add a bit of color. Cadence was…

• 5 min read
virtuoso system design platform , Virtuoso , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

2017: A Year in Breakfasts

So 2017 is over. Taylor Swift got into trouble for saying it was a great year and…

• 6 min read
security , Automotive , risc-v , nanosheet , broadcom , Qualcomm , 5nm , nanowire

Verification

Portable Stimulus User Gives Perspec PSS Technology Nearly Perfect Review

It’s always good to hear what real users think of products. Here is a very detailed…

• 3 min read

Verification

Register for the UVM Register Layer Webinar on January 12!

On Friday, January 12, Doulos is hosting a UVM Register Layer webinar, with the aim…

• less than a min read
webinar , Doulos , xcelium , uvm register layer

Breakfast Bytes

GLOBALFOUNDRIES 7nm

Earlier in the week, I wrote about my meeting with Gary Patton the day before GLOBALFOUNDRIES…

• 3 min read
GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , IEDM

Analog/Custom Design

Automatically Reusing an SoC Testbench in AMS IP Verification

The complexity and size of mixed-signal designs in wireless, power management, automotive…

• 1 min read
AMS , mixed signal design , mixed-signal methodology , mixed signal solution , analog , Mixed-Signal , analog/mixed-signal , Virtuoso environment , mixed-signal verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (4 of 8)

Enabling Constraint-Driven Design With the pre-layout testbench built, populated…

• 5 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , Constraint Driven Design , Multi-Gigabit , PCIe , Signal Integrity , Sigrity

Breakfast Bytes

CES18 Preview

It's the start of a new year and that means it is the Consumer Electronics Show in…

• 9 min read
ces 2017 , deep learning , CES , audio , inception , atmos , Dolby , Tensilica , vision , neural networks

Breakfast Bytes

What is Meltdown? How Can It Affect Both Intel and Arm?

If you pay attention to anything to do with processors, security, or even investment…

• 8 min read
security , Intel , meltdown , x86 , ARM

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 8th to 12th 2018

https://youtu.be/txCnT3N4OSY Coming from Executive Briefing Center (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Consumer Electronics Show , CES , CES2018 , semi , Virtuoso , ARM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (3 of 8)

IBIS-AMI Modeling With initial PCB trace and via models in place for our hypothetical…

• 2 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , Multi-Gigabit , IBIS-AMI , PCIe , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity
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