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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
• 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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IC Packagers: Don’t Get Stranded on Islands, Delete Them!

No, this isn’t a Hollywood movie. We’re talking about pieces of plane shapes with…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Digital Design

Are You Stuck While Synthesizing Your Design Due to Low-Power Issues? We Have the…

Optimizing power can be a very convoluted and crucial process. To make design chips…

• 1 min read
Low Power , Logic Design

Breakfast Bytes

Linley Spring Processor Conference—In Your Own Living Room

The annual Linley Spring Processor Conference is coming up next week. It was planned…

• 4 min read
deep learning , linley processor conference , linley group , neural networks , AI

Breakfast Bytes

RSA: Emerging Threats, Ransomware, and IoT

I attended the recent RSA Conference in San Francisco. I wrote a post about some…

• 4 min read
security , ransomware , rsa conference , rsa , IoT

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Footprints for Silicon - Two Steps to Creating PCB Footprints

Longfellow's metaphorical footprints on the sands of time is more profound and eternal…

• 3 min read
Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

The Mythical Man-Month

This is a continuation of yesterday's post Fred Brooks "It Is a Humbling Experience…

• 5 min read
fred brooks , mythical man-month

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Are Your Layout Design Mansions Correct-by-Construction?

Do you want to create designs that are correct by construction? Read along this blog…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , Advanced Node , Layout Suite , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , usability , Custom IC Design , ux

Breakfast Bytes

Fred Brooks: "It Is a Humbling Experience to Make a Multi-Million Dollar Mistake…

Cadence's Intelligent System Design strategy is about designing the systems of today…

• 4 min read
fred brooks , frederick brooks , mythical man month , os/360

Breakfast Bytes

RSA 2020: The Cryptographers' Panel

One of the big draws on the first day of the RSA Conference is always "The Cryptographers…

• 8 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa , cryptographers' panel

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso IC6.1.8 ISR10 and ICADVM18.1 ISR10 Now Available

The IC6.1.8 ISR10 and ICADVM18.1 ISR10 production releases are now available for…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , ICADVM18.1 , ADE Explorer , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis XL , Virtuoso RF , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , IC Release Blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , ADE Assembler , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Academic Network

How to Get Remote Access to Cadence Academic Tools and Licenses

With the ever-evolving workplace and classroom, we know that the way we work and…

• 4 min read
Europractice , Cadence Academic Network , remote access , EDA , CMC Microsystems , university program

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Identify Your Components

We’ve all seen bar codes and the more modern QR codes. They’re everywhere you go…

• 2 min read
Allegro Package Designer , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

2020 Is the Year of DDR5

I talked recently to Marc Greenberg, one of Cadence's experts on the memory market…

• 3 min read
ddr5 , Memory , DDR4

Digital Design

Library Characterization Tidbits: Validating Libraries Effectively

In this blog, I will brief you about two very useful Rapid Adoption Kits (RAKs) for…

• 3 min read
Liberate LV , timing validation , Digital Implementation , interpolation error , library validation , RAKs

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Help with Electromagnetic Analysis - Part V

Here is another blog in the multi-part series that aims at providing in-depth details…

• 9 min read
EM Analysis , ICADVM18.1 , VRF , Virtuoso Layout EXL , ports , Virtuoso RF , Electromagnetic analysis , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Turing Award: Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan

Last week, the ACM announced this year's Turing Award would go to Pat Hanrahan and…

• 5 min read
vlsi technology , turing award , graphics

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 22nd March 2020

https://youtu.be/b7ixzahr85s Made on my balcony (camera Carey Guo) Monday: Another…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

Netflix and C...adence

Earlier in the week, I wrote about a couple of videos from Intel, about semiconductor…

• 1 min read
sunday brunch , video , intelligent system design

Breakfast Bytes

RSA 2020: From Sulu to Penn & Teller

I attended the RSA Conference in San Francisco recently. I guess that is going to…

• 6 min read
security , rsa conference , rsa
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