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Cadence at the TSMC OIP: Pioneering the Future of Semiconductor Design

The semiconductor industry stands at a pivotal moment. As we push toward more advanced…

Corporate
• 3 min read
OIP , featured , 3D-IC , 3DIC , TSMC

Corporate News

Building a Future Beyond Boundaries with Honda and Cadence

We at Cadence are proud to be a long-term partner of Honda R&D (HGRX), and our collaboration…

Corporate
• 6 min read
Automotive , featured , physical ai , automotive electronics , AI

Corporate News

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
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Book: VLSI Design Methodology Development

There are lots of books on EDA, but many of them are academic texts about the algorithms…

• 4 min read
tom dillinger , book

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity Webinar: Achieving Layout Success with Custom Design Planner and Design…

Enhance productivity with Design Planner and Design Intent. Attend our FREE one-hour…

• 2 min read
custom design , Virtuoso Design Intent , training , webinar , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Cadence Education Services , Custom IC Design , Design Planner

SoC and IP

Did You “Stress Test” Yet? Essential Step to Ensure a Quality PCIe 4.0 Product

The PCI-SIG finalized the PCIe 4.0 specification with doubling the data to 16GT/s…

• 2 min read
PCIe controller , Design IP , IP , PCIe Gen4 , PHY , IP design , PCIe , semiconductor IP , SerDes , PCIe PHY , PCI Express

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Samsung: In SAFE Hands

Today is Samsung's SAFE Forum 2019 at their Samsung@First building on San Jose's…

• 2 min read
samsung foundry , samsung foundry safe , 5lpe , 5nm , safe

Life at Cadence

Taking the Trip of a Lifetime

This year, I was excited to be one of 10 Cadence employees selected from 130 applicants…

• 3 min read
Insights on Culture , Culture , Work that matters , giving back

Breakfast Bytes

Charlie Miller: Stopping Cars Being Hacked Instead of Hacking Them

The last day of Arm TechCon opened with Charlie Miller talking about Experiences…

• 5 min read
security , Automotive , ARM Techcon

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Record. Replay. Relax.

Want to record your work and replay it later? Want to automate things and save time…

• 2 min read
abstract generator , ICADV12.3 , ICADVM18.1 , Layout Suite , Virtuoso Video Diary , IC6.1.7 , Custom IC Design , Custom IC , IC6.1.8

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays – Verification with Emerging Memory Models

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, David Peña discusses Cadence’s focus…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory

SoC and IP

PCIe 3.0 Still Shines While PCIe Keeps Evolving

PCIe has been widely adopted in the electronics industry since its first debut in…

• 2 min read
USB 3.0 , Design IP , IP , USB Type-C , DisplayPort , PCIe , PCIe Gen3 , SerDes , USB 3.1

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Optimize Display Settings for Faster Screen Redraws

While designing interposers and very high pin count device packages, as the number…

• 5 min read
PCB , APD , SiP Layout

Breakfast Bytes

Machine Learning in JasperGold

When I was in Tel Aviv for CDNLive Israel, I sat down with Ziyad Hanna to discuss…

• 4 min read
Jasper User Group , Jasper

System, PCB, & Package Design 

DATA Pulse: Collaborate and Combine Forces – Allegro EDM Team Design

Working in an ECAD design team? Want to control access to certain design elements…

• 2 min read
allegro edm , Team design , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Arm TechCon: The Keynotes

Simon Segars opened Arm TechCon with a new look, having discovered that real men…

• 6 min read
Automotive , ARM Techcon , Simon Segars , cloud , mobile , ARM

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Virtuosity：Modgen简介

半导体行业的飞速发展导致对模拟版图自动化的需求不断增长。模拟电路通常使用current mirrors和 differential pairs的结构，其中器件特性的分组和匹配至关重要…

• 1 min read
EAD , Chinese blog , Modgen On Canvas , MODGEN , automation , Automatic Placement , module generation , Module Generator , Layout , Custom IC Design , modgens , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th October 2019

https://youtu.be/8BM28qwHyUk Made at Arm TechCon (camera Randy Smith) Monday: What…

• less than a min read
Breakfast Bytes

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

5G系统的PCB材料和设计要求

即将到来的5G时代迫使设计师对于移动设备和物联网设备的PCB设计进行着重新思考。这些5G系统将使大多数消费者的设备运行速率达到新高度。当我们对电路板提出通信要求时…

• less than a min read
5G , RF , Chinese blog , 系统设计 , PCB Designer , PCB设计 , 中文

Breakfast Bytes

Sensor Fusion and ADAS in TSMC Automotive Processes

At the recent TSMC OIP Symposium, Cadence's Tom Wong presented Sensor Fusion and…

• 4 min read
OIP , Automotive , sensor fusion , TSMC , lidar , radar , Tensilica , vision , camera , ADAS

Breakfast Bytes

The Economist on RISC-V and Indian Semiconductors

Our industry is difficult to understand. Most of us resort to imperfect analogies…

• 8 min read
risc-v , The Economist , CDNLive India , India

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Device-Level Routing for Advanced Nodes—Tree Route Flow

This is the last blog in the Virtuoso Device-level routing blog series and completes…

• 4 min read
tree routing , structured routing , ICADVM18.1 , Virtuoso Space-based Router , mesh routing , Layout EXL , trunk-to-trunk mesh , Mixed-Signal , Tree Route , Layout Suite , trunk creation , Generate Trunk , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC
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