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Accelerating Drug Discovery with Agentic AI and Computational Science

By Louis Culot, corporate vice president and general manager, Cadence Molecular Sciences…

Corporate
• 3 min read
drug discovery , Cadence Molecular Sciences , featured , agentic ai , NVIDIA

Corporate News

Honda + Cadence = Physical AI (part 2): Where Physical AI Will Be Won

Hello everyone, I'm Atsushi Ogawa, Center Head of HGR. The real challenge of physical…

Corporate
• 8 min read
featured , physical ai , HGR , AI , Honda

Corporate News

The New ASK Portal Brings a Smarter, Faster, and More Intuitive Experience

Finding the right support content should be simple, fast, and intuitive. The new…

Corporate
• 2 min read
featured , customer support , New ASK Portal , ASK Gen AI

Corporate News

The Three-Layer Cake: The Foundation Behind Intelligent Engineering

Artificial intelligence is rapidly becoming the engine behind the next era of technology…

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• 7 min read
featured , infrastructure ai , agentic ai , Principled Simulation , physical ai
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Net Groups in Capture? Check Out the 16.5 Release and See!

A NetGroup is a collection of nets. The nets in a NetGroup can be scalar, vector…

• 2 min read
"capture CIS" , Allegro Design Entry , Capture CIS' , Design Entry CIS , OrCAD Capture Marketplace , electrical constraints , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , Allegro 16.5 , design , OrCAD , Design Entry , net groups , SPB16.5 , NetGroup , PCB Capture , Schematic

Verification

Everything New is Old … Everything Old is New

The title of this post is taken from a fairly obscure 1982 record album (yes, vinyl…

• 2 min read
gate level , Functional Verification , LEC , RTL , DRC , LVS , EDA , old , gate-level , new , simulation

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About ADW’s Server? 16.5 Has a Few New Enhancements!

Some of the enhancements to the Allegro Design Workbench (ADW) 16.5 release were…

• 1 min read
PCB , Allegro Design Workbench , Library flow , Allegro 16.5 , design data management , design , "PCB design" , PCB design , SPB16.5 , Librarians , library , ADW , Allegro

Verification

Virtual Platform UART Use Number 2: Using telnet to Connect to a UART

Welcome to the next installment in my series about different ways to use the venerable…

• 4 min read
Virtual System Platform , TLM , virtual platform , UART , System Design and Verification , telnet , embedded software , xterm , virtual prototype , software , SystemC , linux , ESL

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 2

In the previous posting Introduction to Classes -- Part 1 we introduced the problem…

• 3 min read
Team SKILL , programming , object orientation , Virtuoso , Lisp , SKILL++ , SKILL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Power Pins in SCM? The Secret's in the 16.5 Release!

The 16.5 release of the Allegro System Connectivity Manager (SCM), also known as…

• 2 min read
SCM , Allegro Design Entry , Allegro 16.5 , SPB , BGA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , design , Design Entry , SPB16.5 , FPGA , FPGA: PCB

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Robert Hanson and Cadence Team Up to Deliver Texas Signal Integrity Event

TeamOrCAD, TeamAllegro and Signal Integrity expert Robert Hanson will continue to…

• 2 min read
PCB , SI , PCB design" , Signal Intregrity , PCB Signal and power integrity , Texas , "PCB SI" , Allegro 16.5 , OrCAD PCB SI , Hanson , Allegro PCB SI , "PCB PI" , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Bringing Static Analysis Methods to Mixed Signal Designs

Accurate static analysis and complete coverage of the functional space remain very…

• 2 min read
Static timing analysis , static analysis , mixed signal design , full timing model , STA , timing model , analog , FTM , Mixed-Signal , Signal Integrity , OpenAccess , SPICE , liberty model , .lib

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Up-Reving in DEHDL? You Can Easily Do This in 16.5!

All Allegro PCB Editor designers know about the uprev process to migrate PCB .brd…

• 3 min read
PCB , Allegro Design Entry , hierarchy , DEHDL , electrical constraints , uprev , property , Allegro 16.5 , SPB , Design Entry HDL , Front-end PCB design , Design Entry , SPB16.5 , ConceptHDL

Verification

Can Your Verification Survive “Boot Camp”?

In Silicon Valley there is a popular fitness program called "Boot Camp" where people…

• 1 min read
ABV , boot camp , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Incisive , assertions , IEV , Assertion-Driven Simulation , Formal verification , IFV , Assertion-based verification

Verification

What Does SystemC Mean for Design and Verification?

My colleague Jack Erickson recently published in the Cadence System Design and…

• 3 min read
Virtual System Platform , TLM , uvm world , Functional Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , VSP , C-to-Silicon , SystemC , IES-XL

Verification

Virtual Platform UART Use Number 1: Connecting to an Interactive Terminal

Welcome to the first example of using a UART in a Virtual Platform. For those just…

• 8 min read
Virtual System Platform , virtual platforms , Embecosm , virtual prototypes , UART , System Design and Verification , System Development Suite , xterm , SystemC

Verification

If Only Carl Friedrich Gauss had IntelliGen in 1850

The N-queens issue is a challenging but standard puzzle when it comes to the world…

• 5 min read
N-queens , IntelliGen , Specman , Object Oriented Programming , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , OVM-e , team specman , specman elite , multi-language , Gauss , simulation , Rubik's Cube , AOP , Trailblazer

Verification

UCIS Coverage Standard -- Innovation Means Business

Open solutions are just curiosities until the ecosystem figures out how to turn…

• 1 min read
metric-driven , coverage , Functional Verification , Metric Driven Verification , EDA360 , Incisive , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , UCIS , Accellera , coverage driven verification (CDV) , MDV

Verification

What I Learned Traveling Across the Silicon Prairie

Inspired by Brian Fuller's cross-country "Drive for Innovation" , last week I jumped…

• 1 min read
Silicon Prarie , Joe Hupcey III , ABV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , ADS , IEV , Assertion-Driven Simulation , Formal verification , IFV , Assertion-based verification

Verification

Verifying AMBA® 4 ACE Designs – Cadence is Ready to Help, Now

ACE is here. Are you ready? Designers of multimedia smartphones, tablets, and other…

• 1 min read
Verification IP , ACE , Functional Verification , VIP , tablet , AMBA , Smartphone , EE Times

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Introduction to Classes -- Part 1

In the previous couple of SKILL for the Skilled postings, we looked at some of the…

• 3 min read
Sodoku , Team SKILL , programming , classes , object orientation , Virtuoso , object system , Lisp , Custom IC Design , SKILL++ , SKILL , Allegro

Verification

IP Cannot be an Efficient Abstraction Level Without SystemC!

EDN recently featured a lengthy article entitled " SOCs: IP is the new abstraction…

• 3 min read
High-Level Synthesis , IP , TLM , RTL , abstraction , IP re-use , EDN , SoC , IP assembly , system design , SystemC , HLS , System Design and Verification

RF Engineering

Measuring Fmax for MOS Transistors

The following question has come up in comments: "How do I measure F max for an MOS…

• 3 min read
RF , RF Simulation , analog/RF , Circuit simulation , RFIC , bipolar transistor , MOS transistors , measuring Fmax , Virtuoso , Fmax , RF design , fmax testbench , simulation , bsim3v3
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