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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: A Boundless Bounty of Bounding Shapes

How’s that for a tongue twister? Go ahead, try and say it three times fast! What…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: High-Speed Design Signal Integrity Challenges and Solutions

Usually, people start a blog by stating something dramatic and we used to bring drama…

• 3 min read
Sigrity , Allegro PCB Editor

Breakfast Bytes

How Technologies Get into EDA

When I was last at Cadence around 2000, I ran what was then Custom IC. It was a different…

• 6 min read
sales , startups , ambit , Signal Integrity , salesforce

Breakfast Bytes

Persistent Memory at Twitter

A couple of weeks ago was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020. See my post Persistent…

• 3 min read
persistent memory summit , Oracle , optane , Twitter , persistent memory

Verification

USB3, PCIe, DisplayPort Protocol Traffic Finding its Way Through USB4 Routers

USB4 can simultaneously tunnel USB3, PCIe and DisplayPort native protocol traffic…

• 1 min read
Verification IP , DP , DisplayPort , USB , usb4 , PCIe , tunneling

Breakfast Bytes

Persistent Memory: We Have Cleared the Tower

Last week it was the Persistent Memory Summit 2020, which has been running annually…

• 7 min read
persistent memory summit , persistent memory , 3dxpoint

Breakfast Bytes

Quarry Bank Mill: A Technology Museum from the Industrial Revolution

A couple of years ago (and from time to time since) I wrote a series of blog posts…

• 5 min read
industrial revolution , museum

Breakfast Bytes

Sigrity Aurora: In-Design Analysis

Cadence's new Sigrity Aurora puts all the power of the Sigrity engines under the…

• 3 min read
Sigrity Aurora , Signal Integrity , Sigrity

Life at Cadence

Intelligent System Design

Electronics technology is proliferating to new, creative applications and appearing…

• 9 min read
intelligent system design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Mysteries Revealed - Why Is Flip-Chip Chip-Down the Default Library…

We’ve come to the end of my New Year’s Resolutions for 2020. Before we dive deeper…

• 4 min read
Allegro Package Designer

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: Novel Interconnect Techniques Beyond 3nm

During the short course on the Sunday before IEDM, Chris Wilson of imec presented…

• 4 min read
interconnect , imec , IEDM

Breakfast Bytes

RIP Clayton Christensen

Clayton Christensen died last Thursday, at the relatively young age of 67. He was…

• 6 min read
clayton christensen , innovator's dilemma

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Reminiscing About The Last 'Teen' Year of Custom IC Design Blogs

If you have missed reading any of our Virtuosity, Virtuoso Meets Maxwell, Virtuoso…

• 3 min read
ICADVM18.1 , Automated Device-Level Placement and Routing , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , Electromagnetic analysis , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: TSMC on 3nm Device Options

At IEDM in December, Jin Cai of TSMC presented Device Technology for 3nm Node and…

• 4 min read
TSMC , IEDM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Leveraging IPC-2581 Spec Element Capabilities to Streamline Design…

If you are a PCB designer and follow IPC-2581 guidelines to design a board, this…

• 3 min read
Manuafacturing , PCB Editor , 17.4-2019 , IPC-2581

Breakfast Bytes

DesignCon 2020: SI, PCB, Packaging, Photonics

Next Tuesday through Thursday, January 28 to 30, DesignCon 2020 takes place in the…

• 3 min read
PCB , DesignCon , Signal Integrity , OrCAD , Sigrity , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: Simplify Your ECAD Data Release Process While Ensuring Process Contr…

Do you dread your ECAD to PLM publishing process? If yes, worry not. We have a solution…

• 1 min read
System Capture , allegro edm , PCB design , Pulse , PLM

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: Automating DTCO for 3nm

At IEDM in December, Lars Liebmann of TEL presented Design Technology Co-Optimization…

• 4 min read
3nm , IEDM , DTCO

定制IC芯片设计

Virtuosity：Modgen中的布局重用流程

Modgen 现在支持布局重用流. 请继续阅读，了解如何使用此功能通过减少创建 Modgen 的时间和精力来提高版图效率.

• less than a min read
Chinese blog , Modgen On Canvas , ICADVM18.1 , MODGEN , Layout Suite , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Layout design , Custom IC Design , modgens , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC
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