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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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Digital Design

Demo: Automatic Floorplan Synthesis in Encounter

As an Applications Engineer, the first demonstrations you deliver of a new technology…

• 1 min read
MasterPlan , Floorplanning , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1

Verification

Using TLM Verification To Reduce RTL Verification

SystemC is the most common language used for modeling transaction level (TLM) behavior…

• 1 min read
TLM , Functional Verification , RTL , automation , planning and management , testbench

Verification

New OVM-e Testflow Features Introduce Increased Automation

Hi All, With the release of the OVM- e library, there are now many new features available…

• 4 min read
when sub-typing , Kaberi , Specman , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , OVM e , e , OVM-e , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , OVMWorld

Verification

DVCon 2009 - Day 1

As promised, here is my photo blog of Day 1 of DVCon, focused on the OVM Multi-Language…

• less than a min read
Verification methodology , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , DVcon , Levent Caglar , IES , IES-XL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing DDR3 Interfaces In a Constraint Driven Design Environment

If you’ve been wondering how to capture high speed memory interface design intent…

• less than a min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB Signal and power integrity , Constraint Manager , DDR3

Verification

OVM Now Includes SystemC and e Language Interoperability

More of our customers are using Incisive for transaction level modeling (TLM) and…

• less than a min read
virtual platform , System Design and Verification , OVM , SystemC , prototype

Verification

Reflections on ESL: Where Are We and Where We Are Going

Many of the messages published by Gabe Moretti in his recent EETimes article resonate…

• 1 min read
TLM , RTL , System Design and Verification , EETimes , C-to-Silicon , SystemC , ESL

Verification

OVM e Open Source - It's Official!

Specmaniacs and other e RM & OVM users, Today we offically released the e RM 3.0…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , OVM , OVM e , e , eRM

Verification

DVCon '09 Preview

For those of you that will not be able to make it in person: So you can follow the…

• 2 min read
funtional verification , Functional Verification , VIP , Mike Stellfox , DVcon , Levent Caglar , Jason Andrews

Digital Design

Turning the Downturn Upside Down

Many bemoan the gloom and doom of the present economic situation, and it is true…

• 1 min read
Low Power , OVM , MIPI , encounter , Virtuoso , Spectre , Digital Implementation , Chi-Ping

Verification

Tech Tip: Viewing The Combined Help for IES-XL

IES-XL is comprised of IUS, Incisive Verification Kits with Methodology, Specman…

• 1 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , tech tips , Enterprise Manager , help , IES-XL

Verification

Tips for Opening Cadence Help

[Welecome back the Tech Pubs team as guest bloggers] Sometimes you just need a little…

• 1 min read
Specman , Tech Pubs , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , IES-XL

Verification

Emulation vs. FPGA Prototyping

There is a continuous debate about FPGA prototyping vs. emulation. This debate is…

• 1 min read
ASIC , prototyping , RTL , System Design and Verification , Palladium , FPGA

Verification

Grey-Boxed Data-Path Approach Using 'when sub-typing'

[Please join Team Specman in welcoming the first guest blogger from our user base…

• 10 min read
when sub-typing , Specman , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

SoC and IP

Denali MemCon 2009 Website Launched

Denali MemCon Silicon Valley Coming June 22-25; Register now! Denali has just…

• 1 min read

Digital Design

Constraint Construction: What's Its Function? Part 2 of 4

Part 2 - I/O TIMING: Talking Outside The Box It wouldn't be a chip or block if it…

• 3 min read
Constraint Design , STA , Encounter Digital Implementation , Encounter Timing System

Verification

Adaptive Chips Selects OVM Over VMM -- An Interview With Amjad Qureshi

On February 11 Cadence announced that Adaptive Chips had adopted the Incisive verification…

• 2 min read
Adaptive Chips , SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , CDV , e , eRM

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: Spice 2.0 - The ABCs of APS

Designers have had ubiquitous access to powerful SMP/multicore systems for years…

• less than a min read
APS , SMP , Spice 2.0 , multicore , Custom IC Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About FPGA Capabilities in Capture? Download the SPB16.2 Release and…

With the SPB16.2 release, a few new FPGA enhancements have been added. In recent…

• 1 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , UCF , xilinx , Allegro , FPGA: PCB
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