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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

Corporate News

Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC
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IEDM 2019: An Overview...Plus the Future of EUV

IEDM, the International Electron Devices Meeting, took place last week. It was also…

• 6 min read
EUV , IEDM

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Looking Back at Virtuoso ADE Product Suite and Virtuoso Visualization…

2019 was quite an eventful year for Virtuoso  ADE Product Suite and Virtuoso  Visualization…

• 4 min read
ADE waveform window , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , virtuoso visualization and analysis , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , ADE Verifier , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Digital Design

2019 Annual HLS Survey Results

Each year, we survey the industry to get an idea of the industry’s experiences and…

• 2 min read

Breakfast Bytes

System in Package? How to Plan and Build It

This is a follow on to my previous two pieces about system-in-package (SiP) designs…

• 3 min read
system in package , chiplet , 3DIC , OrbitIO

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Four Reasons to Use Allegro ECAD-MCAD Library Creator

The Cadence  Allegro  ECAD-MCAD Library Creator helps you easily synchronize ECAD…

• 3 min read
Library Creator , 17.4-2019 , ECAD-MCAD Library Creator , PCB design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: An Introduction to Allegro Package Designer Plus in 17.4

Some of you are APD users, building single-chip or non-stacked multi-chip packages…

• 5 min read
17.4 , APD , SiP Layout

Breakfast Bytes

What's Happening in RISC-V Land?

Last week was IEDM, the International Electronic Devices Meeting. I will write about…

• 5 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , NVIDIA , risc-v summit , Samsung , Qualcomm

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: Speed up ECAD Part Search in Allegro System Capture

Do you often search for parts when creating Allegro System Capture projects? Yes…

• 2 min read
Cadence Design Systems , Library and design data management , PCB design , Allegro System Capture , Part Search

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The Most Important Operating System Ever

I wrote recently about Brian Kernighan's memoir and history in Brian Kernighan's…

• 7 min read
android , unix , iOS , MacOS , linux

Academic Network

2019 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation in Hsinchu Taiwan

The Cadence Academic Network has been supporting the Workshop on Electronic Design…

• 1 min read
university , Taiwan , Cadence Academic Network , academic workshop , academia , university program

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

图文详解：如何在PowerSI中为封装体上添加假性球体和参考层？

本文由Cadence经销商之一的北京耀华创芯电子科技有限公司整理撰写。耀创科技专注于电子设计自动化（EDA）服务，在引进国外先进EDA工具的同时，针对中国市场特殊性…

• less than a min read
SI , Chinese blog , 中文 , Sigrity , IC封装 , S参数 , PowerSI

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Known Good Die

Do you know what known good die are? Do you know what wafer sort is? Final test?…

• 6 min read
system-in-package , kgd , 3DIC , known good die

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Brian Kernighan's Memoirs

If you have ever worked on placement or floorplanning, and probably some other areas…

• 7 min read

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System in Package, Why Now? Part 2

This post is a continuation of last week's post Multiple Die in Packages. Why Now…

• 6 min read
3DIC , more than Moore , moore's law

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR8 and ICADVM18.1 ISR8 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR8 and ICADVM18.1 ISR8 production releases are now available for download…

• 2 min read
Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso RF , Virtuoso Custom Placer , Electromagnetic analysis , Virtuoso , CLE , IC Release Blog , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL , clarity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Copy and Paste Refresh in 17.4

The most common operations in any tool are probably adding, moving, deleting… plus…

• 3 min read
allegro 17.4 , APD , Allegro Package Designer , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence at CES 2020: Tensilica Everywhere

Once again, Cadence will be at CES in Las Vegas. It takes place January 7 to 10,…

• 4 min read
CES , Tensilica

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part IV

This is the fourth blog in the multi-part series that aims at providing in-depth…

• 11 min read
AXIEM , SiP , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Layout EXL , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF , Package Design in Virtuoso , Electromagnetic analysis , RF design , method of moments , Finite Element Method , Layout Editing , Allegro , clarity

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Xcelium Is 50% Faster on AWS's New Arm Server Chip

At Re:invent, Amazon AWS announced Graviton 2, their second-generation Arm server…

• 3 min read
annapurna labs , nitro , cloud , aws , graviton 2 , cadence cloud , neoverse , ARM
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