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Cadence Welcomes Ausdia and TimeVision Timing Constraints Management Solution

We're delighted to welcome Ausdia to Cadence. Effective April 16, 2026, Ausdia's…

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• 2 min read
digital design , Digital Design and Signoff , featured , Tempus timing solution , Timing analysis

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The Rise of the Autonomous Engineer

Agentic AI in engineering has moved from concept to reality at remarkable speed.…

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• 5 min read
featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA , AI-Driven Design , AI for design

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Cadence CEO Outlines the Path to the CMOS 2.0 Era at IMEC ITF World 2026

At this year's ITF World 2026 in Antwerp, Belgium, global technology leaders gathered…

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• 4 min read
CMOS 2.0 , featured , imec , AI for design , XTCO

Corporate News

Welcoming EMA Design Automation and FlowCAD to Cadence

We're excited to share that the EMA Design Automation and FlowCAD teams have joined…

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• 2 min read
featured , Ultra Librarian , EMA , System Design and Analysis
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Academic Network

Opening a Certified EDA lab at Sofia University in Bulgaria

A few months ago, I was contacted by Dobromir Gaydazhiev, director of Design Support…

• 2 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Certified Lab , Sofia University , gf

Breakfast Bytes

Offtopic: Sudoku and Wordle

Tomorrow is a Cadence "global recharge day" and Monday is Presidents' Day in the…

• 6 min read
offtopic , wordle , Sudoku

Computational Fluid Dynamics

What Battery Energy Density is Required for Long-Distance Electric Aircraft?

Birds inspired us to develop aircrafts capable of flight. Before the Wright brothers…

• 2 min read
Lithium Air Batteries , electric planes , greenhouse gases , Computational Fluid Dynamics , batteries , Sodium-Sulfur Batteries , Lithium Ion Batteries , engineering

Digital Design

Adopting a Faster, More Efficient Path to Multi-Chiplet Design

Gone are the days when process shrinking was considered as the primary driver of…

• 3 min read
chiplets , 3D-IC , Integrity , Thermal Integrity , system planning , Multi-Chiplet Design

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Automotive: CFD, FuSa, Aging, Vision, Light

That's a lot of acronyms and buzzwords! Just in case you don't know them all, they…

• 5 min read
CFD , Automotive , functional safety , Tensilica , vision , aging

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Installation Know-How: Configuring OrCAD and Allegro Installations…

Often, you install the Cadence products with default settings and that suffices to…

• 4 min read
Installation Know-How , 17.4 , BoardSurfers , Allegro OrCAD Installer , 17.4-2019 , OrCAD , installation , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

China, US, Europe: Everybody's Got a CHIPS Act

I ran across a very interesting report from the Semiconductor Industry Association…

• 5 min read
asml , China , SIA , US CHIPS Act , Europe Chips Act

Breakfast Bytes

Generic and Open PDKs

One challenge that educators and researchers face is that they typically have no…

• 4 min read
Open PDK , openroad , google , PDK , efabless

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Simulate Wind Turbine Blade Aerodynamics Using High-Quality Automated Meshing

Dr. Galih Bangga, a scientist with a forte in wind energy research, from the Institute…

• 3 min read
CFD , Meshing Monday , Mesh metrics , Automated meshing , engineering , simulation software , Cadence Pointwise , Mesh Generation , Meshing

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 13th February 2022

https://youtu.be/_Rt6kAURffU Made in Rancho San Antonio County Park (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Breakfast Bytes

January Update

I realize that it is February, but I was sick late January and so I never wrote this…

• 5 min read
Intel , risc-v , NVIDIA , update , ARM , agriculture

Learning and Support

Webinar Invitation: Enhance your Design Power with Joules

Want to take a tour of this powerful power estimation tool and gear up so you understand…

• 2 min read
Cadence Support Portal , Cadence support , cadence learning and support

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CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2022: You Can Be Part of the Event

CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley is scheduled for June 8 and 9, and currently it is planned…

• 1 min read
cadencelive

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Go Zero Emission with Plug-In Buoys for Ships

There has been persistent traffic in the American ports with tons of containers stacked…

• 2 min read
marine traffic , Mooring , shorepower , buoys , GHG emissions

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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre 電圧ドメイン・チェック

Spectre®回路シミュレータは、過渡解析やその他の解析を実行することなく、典型的なセットアップや設計上の問題を特定することができる、スタティックまたはトポロジー…

• less than a min read
Spectre 21.1 , Analog Simulation , Spectre Circuit Simulator , japanese blog , Spectre X Simulator

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DATE 2022 Now Fully Virtual

As you can tell from the title of my DATE 2022 preview post Save the DATE: Design…

• 1 min read
DATE , date 2022 , design and test europe

Verification

Optimizing CPU Time, TAT, and Disk Space using Cadence Xcelium Advanced Technologies…

Design for Testability (DFT) simulation is crucial to the SOC design process: rapid…

• 8 min read
System Design and Verification , PPA , Disk Space optimization , xcelium , HREF

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso ICADVM20.1 ISR23 and IC6.1.8 ISR23 Now Available

The ICADVM20.1 ISR23 and IC6.1.8 ISR23 production releases are now available for…

• 2 min read
Analog Design Environment , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso RF Solution , IC Release Announcement blog , Virtuoso RF , Layout EXL , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , ICADVM20.1 , IC Release Blog , Virtuoso Layout Suite , Custom IC , IC6.1.8 , Floorplanner , Allegro , ADE Assembler

Life at Cadence

4 Ways Computational Software Is Transforming System Design and Hardware Design

System and Hardware Design Strides and Challenges Electronics systems are changing…

• 7 min read
computational software
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