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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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Latest blogs

Verification

A Seamless Path to the Portable Stimulus Standard

In our last blog post , we reviewed some of the activities at the recent Design and…

• 3 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Léman Micro Devices: Blood Pressure on Your Smartphone

One of the most interesting things I saw at MWC was a meeting I had with Mark-Eric…

• 6 min read
Léman Micro Devices , medical electronics , mobile , cadence hosted design environment , blood pressure , Smartphone

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Symposium 28...22...16...12...7...

This is the second of two posts about last week's TSMC Technology Symposium. The…

• 7 min read
OIP , n5 , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , n7+ , n7

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN)

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the first in a two-part series, Megha…

• less than a min read
Automotive , deep learning , vision , convolutional neural networks , mobile , ADAS , CNN

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 27th to 31st 2017

https://youtu.be/-_33atq9vRY Coming from National Automobile Museum, Reno,…

• less than a min read
ESDA , circle of life , lanza techventures , Lucio Lanza , system design enablement , SDA , esd alliance , virtual dummy metal fill

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Technology Roadmaps

TSMC had their annual Technology Symposium last week. As always, my post comes with…

• 6 min read
Automotive , n5 , IoT , TSMC , HPC , n7 , mobile , n10

Academic Network

The Worldwide MEMS Design Contest Officially Starts

Cadence, X-FAB, Coventor and Reutlingen University have Selected 10 Design Teams…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , X-FAB , MEMS Design Contest , Reutlingen University , CDNLive EMEA , Mixed-Signal , Coventor

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive Silicon Valley Preview

Yes, it's that time of year again. Just like a cat has nine lives, Cadence has nine…

• 2 min read
microsoft , CDNLive , Santa Clara Convention Center , CDNLive Silicon Valley

Breakfast Bytes

Dracula, Vampire, Assura, PVS: A Brief History

Cadence was created from the merger of SDA and ECAD, as you probably know. SDA had…

• 9 min read
Extraction , Dracula , DRC , vampire , design rule check , Assura

Breakfast Bytes

Andy Bechtolsheim Keynote on the Future of Networking

At the recent Linley Cloud Hardware Conference, the keynote was given by Andy Bechtolsheim…

• 7 min read
andy bechtolsheim , arista networks , andreas bechtolsheim , linley cloud hardware conference , Linley

Breakfast Bytes

TSMC Announces New 12FFC Process

Today at the TSMC Technology Symposium, Cliff Hou, TSMC's VP of R&D, is set to announce…

• 4 min read
Design IP , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , 12nm , InFO , 7nm

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 20th to 24th 2017

https://youtu.be/Qm8epP4YobA Coming from TSMC Technology Symposium, Santa Clara…

• less than a min read
Léman Micro Devices , CDNLive , SDE , 12FFC , TSMC , TSMC Technology Symposium , InFO , mobile , blood pressure , system design enablement , 7nm , Smartphone

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Real-Time Tuning—A Lot More Than Just an Assistant!

Have you ever found yourself in situations where you’re not sure which values of…

• 3 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Analog Simulation , analog , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Analog Design Environment , ViVA , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Display Stream Compression: Higher Display Resolutions in…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Alex Passi takes a closer look at Display…

• less than a min read
mobile devices , Whiteboard Wednesdays , MIPI , MIPI protocols

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?

Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for…

• 4 min read

Digital Design

Have DRC Tools Run Out of Steam? – Part 1

In the EDA history of design rule check (DRC), there have been two distinct eras…

• 3 min read
Physical verification , DRC , design rule check

Breakfast Bytes

ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era

BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about here has been…

• 4 min read
california energy commission , energy policy , ESDA , IoT , Internet of Things , san jose city hall , cec , esd alliance

Verification

Static Members in e

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining…

• 9 min read
Specman , Incisive , e language , static , xcelium , verification

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Reliability in Monterey: a Preview of IRPS

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability…

• 4 min read
international reliability and physics symposium , Intel , IBM , Monterey , irps , NASA , reliability
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