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CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela Samuel
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , AI-Driven Design , cadencelive , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML
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Virtuoso Video Diary: 信頼性解析の改善

IC6.1.8/ICADVM18.1 ISR3のVirtuoso® ADE Assembler および Virtuoso ADE Explorer で、信頼性解析の実行方法を完全に変更する…

• less than a min read
Stress Analysis , Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso Video Diary , aging , japanese blog , reliability analysis , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Examining Post-Layout Capacitance Using Virtuoso ADE Assembler and ADE…

Post-Layout has become a hot topic recently. This has kept me and several other engineers…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , PAD , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , Spectre , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , parasitics

Breakfast Bytes

HOT CHIPS: The Space Race for the Biggest ML Machine

At the recent HOT CHIPS, the Sunday morning tutorial was on scale out of deep learning…

• 5 min read
GPU , deep learning , tpu , NVIDIA , cerebras , wafer scale integration , google , training , mlperf

Verification

Mellanox's Tips and Tricks for Maximizing Your Palladium Unit

Looking to learn more about the best practices for emulating today’s billion-gate…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , mellanox , Palladium , Tips

Breakfast Bytes

OIP Ecosystem Forum 2020

Last Tuesday was the virtual TSMC OIP Ecosystem Forum. Apart from being virtual,…

• 3 min read
OIP , Automotive , n5 , oip ecosystem summit , ultra low power , n3 , TSMC , 16FFC , n7 , n6 , n12e , 3dfabric

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Find by Name or Find by Query - That is the Question!

You must be using find utility day in and day out, but if you are unfamiliar with…

• 9 min read
Find command , APD , PCB Editor , FIND , Find result , Find by Query

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Preparing a Completed Package for Mounting on a PCB

We’ve covered all the different types of die components and how they interface with…

• 5 min read
IC Packaging and SiP , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019

Breakfast Bytes

Andrew Kahng and Matthew Morrison on Industry and Academia

I attended two presentations on the academic track at the recent CadenceLIVE Americas…

• 6 min read
DAC , ucsd , academia , andrew kahng , physical design , notre dame , matthew morrison , HLS

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Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: 当裸片版图没有Bump，有Pad Shapes时，怎么输出裸片版图?

如果您的裸片版图不是通过Bumps，而是通过 pad shapes和标签来识别I / O位置，那么您可能会有种无所适从的感觉。 因此在这篇文章中，我将为大家介绍一种新的适用于裸片版图的解决方案…

• 2 min read
Chinese blog , ICADVM18.1 , Edit-in-Concert , die export , VRF , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Layout EXL , Package Design in Virtuoso , die , virtuoso system design platform , shape-based die , shape , VMM

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Thinking Outside the Chip--Advantages of Interoperability…

Many of today’s analog, RF, and mixed-signal designs require the integration of multiple…

• 3 min read
IC Packaging , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Spectre , mixed signal , Custom IC Design , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 6th September 2020

https://youtu.be/bj1-b3YpuXg Made in "Costa Rica" Monday: Cadence Wins Texas Instruments…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

カスタムIC／ミックスシグナル

Virtuosity: 日本の読者に朗報です

最近私たちは、ノートパソコン、スマートフォン、テレビなど、画面の前でほとんどの時間を費やしています。 これらのガジェットは、自宅やオンライン・プロジェクト、その他の仕事関連のタスクでの作業を簡単にサポートする…

• 1 min read
Trunk generation , ICADVM18.1 , AMS Designer , VPR , Advanced Node , layout XL , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , AMSD Flex Mode , japanese blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Labor Day Offtopic: Microroasting Coffee

Labor Day is coming up on Monday. Friday is also a Cadence holiday and Breakfast…

• 6 min read
offtopic , off topic , coffee

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inspectAR: ニューファンドランドの”拡張現実”（AR）

先日、CadenceLIVEでのAnirudhの基調講演について Anirudh's Keynote: A New Product...and an Acquisition…

• less than a min read
PCB , inspectar , japanese blog

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Implementing SKILL Code

This post is in continuation of  Extending Allegro Layout Capabilities with SKILL…

• 2 min read
17.4 , PCB design and layout , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , SKILL

Breakfast Bytes

CadenceLIVE India 2020 Preview

In a normal year, I would already have my plane ticket to fly to Bangalore for CadenceLIVE…

• 3 min read
cadencellive india , cadencelive

Verification

Xcelium ML: The Next Big Thing in Regression

Looking for that extra kick in your regression performance? Cadence’s Xcelium Logic…

• 1 min read
machine learning , xcelium , Regression

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: How Die Stacking Works in Allegro Package Designer

Recently, we’ve covered some basics about why imported dies default to chip-down…

• 7 min read
IC Packaging , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019

Breakfast Bytes

InspectAR: Augmented Reality in Newfoundland

I covered Anirudh's CadenceLIVE keynote in my post Anirudh's Keynote: A New Product…

• 3 min read
PCB , inspectar , augmented reality
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