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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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Analog/Custom Design

Spectre Tech Tips: Upgrading to SPECTRE 20.1

SPECTRE 19.1 ISR18, the last ISR of the SPECTRE 19.1 ISR release, was released on…

• 1 min read
Circuit simulation , Spectre

Life at Cadence

Celebrating Pride Month at Cadence

Pride Month is a time for the LGBTQ+ community and allies to come together and celebrate…

• 2 min read
inclusion , Pride Month , Culture , LGBTQ+ , cadence , LGBT , diversity , life at cadence

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Using Variables and Stacks in Allegro SKILL

In our previous blog post, we discussed how to count the number of pins and rename…

• 3 min read
17.4 , programming , BoardSurfers , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , Allegro Skill , SKILL , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Understanding Stadium-Style Cavity Package Design

Design complexity and space constraints are pushing designers to innovative novel…

• 3 min read
17.4 , IC Packaging , APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , ICPackagers

Breakfast Bytes

CadenceLIVE Google Keynote: Please Sir, I Want Some Moore

The invited keynote for the first day of the recent CadenceLIVE Americas was by Partha…

• 7 min read
google , cadencelive americas , cadencelive

PCB設計／ICパッケージ設計

Boardsurfers: Allegro DesignTrue DFM Rule Aggregatorで複数のDFMルールをマージ

一つの設計会社が複数の基板製造メーカーと連携することは珍しくありませんが、製造メーカーは恐らく、それぞれが異なるDFMルールセットを必要とするはずです。そこで、設計会社の慣習として…

• 1 min read
Allegro DesignTrue , PCB Editor , 17.4-2019 , japanese blog , Allegro PCB Editor , DFM

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Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP Family

Recently, Cadence announced the availability of the Tensilica FloatingPoint DSP family…

• 3 min read
floating-point , Tensilica , floatingpoint

Life at Cadence

My Life at Cadence: Ludovic Perier

Cadence was recently recognized as Fortune and Great Place to Work® as one of the…

• 1 min read
Culture , GPTW , my life at cadence , great place to work , life at cadence , cadence emea

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Cadence Report: "Hyperscale Computing Will Positively Impact Me within Five Years…

Do you know what hyperconnectivity is? It is already affecting you, whether you know…

• 6 min read
hyperscale data center , cloud , hyperscaler , hyperconnectivity

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Get Connected!

One of the strengths of the Virtuoso RF solution is the ability to handle connectivity…

• 4 min read
IC , package , cross-fabric , Edit-in-Concert , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , Virtuoso RF , Package Design in Virtuoso , ICADVM20.1 , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , RAKs , bump , VMM

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Sunday Brunch Video for 27th June 2021

https://youtu.be/nD_AYa2AbfU Made in my car (camera: my car's phone mount) Monday…

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sunday brunch

Computational Fluid Dynamics

This Week in CFD

It's Friday which means it's time to take a look back at what happened in the CFD…

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CFD , geometry modeling , Pointwise , Computational Fluid Dynamics , CAD , Omnis

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June Update: PCIe 6.0, Ransomware, Mars, Turing Award...and CadenceLIVE

I have decided to put these "Update" posts that I do from time to time on a more…

• 4 min read
ransomware , turing award , pcie 6 , PCIe , turing , Mars

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Mystery Behind the .simrc File and Netlist Customization

Read on to know the usefulness of the .simrc file and how and when it is picked by…

• 7 min read
ic design methodology , AMS , Analog Design Environment , ic analog design , Cadence blogs , programming , mixed-signal simulators , custom/analog , Analog Simulation , analog , Mixed-Signal , full custom ic design , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Spectre , Virtuosity , cadenceblogs , ICADVM20.1 , Circuit Design , mixed signal , analog design , Custom IC Design , IC6.1.8 , SKILL , Schematic , Analog IC Design , custom design technology , custom integrated circuit

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Quantum Computing with Spectre's Ultra-Low Temperature Models

Equal1 has just announced a breakthrough in quantum computing with a fully integrated…

• 6 min read
quantum computing , 22fdx , gf , GlobalFoundries , FD-SOI

PCB、IC封装：设计与仿真分析

动态电压和频率调节如何影响功耗

本文要点 降低 CPU 或 GPU 功耗的技术有许多，这些技术聚焦软件/固件层面、系统层面和晶体管架构层面 其中两种降低功耗的技术为：动态电压和频率调节，即调整电源电平…

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PI , Chinese blog , 电源完整性 , 仿真分析 , GPU , 功耗 , Sigrity X , 中文 , 系统分析 , Sigrity , CPU

System, PCB, & Package Design 

BoardSurfers: Training Insights: A Comprehensive Solution for Setting Up PCB Design…

PCB design complexities increase with the increase in the number of parts and layers…

• 3 min read
17.4 , BoardSurfers , PCB Editor , 17.4-2019 , PCB design , Training Insights , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

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New Banknote with Alan Turing: "This Is a Foretaste of What Is to Come, and the Shadow…

Today is Alan Turing's birthday. More to the point, today the first £50 banknotes…

• 5 min read
bank of england , bletchley park , computer science , turing

Digital Design

Pegasus: Get your Wings: Pegasus Run Controls

Have you ever been in a situation where the run has started and you realize that…

• 4 min read
Pegasus Verification System , Run Control Commands , pegasus , Pegasus Run Control , signoff
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