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The Three Phases of AI Adoption

Artificial intelligence is often discussed as if the industry is moving through a…

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• 6 min read
featured , infrastructure ai , agentic ai , physical ai , sciences ai

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Finding What Truly Moves You: Honoring Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

"Finding what truly moves you is happiness. Success is measured in the lasting impact…

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• 2 min read
featured , EDA , Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli , UC Berkeley

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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…

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

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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…

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• 8 min read
featured , physical ai , HGR , AI , Honda
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the new FPGA System Planner? - Ask Hemant Shah!

Our product marketing manager for Allegro PCB products, Hemant Shah introduced the…

• 2 min read
FPGA System Planner , FSP , PCB design , FPGA

Verification

OVM Metric Driven Verification With an FPGA-based Design

During the last 2 years I have enjoyed the opportunity to work with the Incisive…

• 2 min read
System Design and Verification , OVM , Incisive , System simulation and analysis , ISX , Hardware/software co-verification , FPGA

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Managing Your Real Estate - Part 2

I keep my toothpaste in my bathroom. I keep the paprika in the kitchen. I keep the…

• 2 min read
IC 6.1 , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Verification

The DWARF Debugging File Format

The Chronicles of Narnia has always been one my favorite series of books. Today,…

• 7 min read
System Design and Verification , DWARF , ARM , ELF , debugging

Verification

Enabling OVM Transaction Debug in SimVision Without Code Changes

Are you tired of putting print statements in your code to do debug? Do you work…

• 5 min read
SystemVerilog , debug , Functional Verification , simvision , OVM SV , OVM 2.0 , IES , IES-XL

Verification

Team genIES Bloggers Create Simulation Magic

Simulation is a huge topic. Performance, debug, mixed-signal, low-power, assertions…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , Incisive , OV , IES , IES-XL

Verification

Tips on Using “vhdlsync” With e+Mixed HDL Simulation

[ Team Specman welcomes Principal Support Application Engineer Avi Farjoun to share…

• 3 min read
AF , Specman , Functional Verification , tech tips , Incisive , e , Verilog , multi-language , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , VHDL , IES , IES-XL

Verification

Thoughts on the DVClub Talk: "Is it Time to Declare Verification War?"

As noted in a prior post , I had the pleasure of attending a DVClub talk given by…

• 2 min read
verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , DVClub , MDV

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Managing Your Real Estate - Part 1

Yeah, right...in this economy, don't talk to me about real estate. But I'm not talking…

• 3 min read
real estate , Virtuoso , assistants , Custom IC Design

Verification

Heads-up: Mixed Signal Verification Webinar (June 10)

For those Specmaniacs using the REAL number data type & ports capabilities in Specman…

• 1 min read
AMS , Specman , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Incisive , e , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , verification , IES-XL

RF Engineering

Join us at the Cadence booth at the International Microwave Symposium

If you listened to Tom's advice on this blog two months ago and registered for the…

• 1 min read
RFIC , Spectre RF , Virtuoso , RF design , International Microwave Symposium

Verification

New IntelliGen Statistics Collection Utilility

As noted in white papers , prior posts , and the Specman documentation, since IntelliGen…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , Incisive , e , team specman , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , IES-XL

Verification

Synthesis Really DOES Need to Change

A great article appeared in Chip Design a few weeks ago written by Tets Maniwa, …

• 2 min read
System Design and Verification , rtl compiler , C-to-Silicon Compiler

Analog/Custom Design

Things You Didn't Know About Virtuoso: Editing Properties

When I was growing up, my mother would usually bake a ham for Christmas dinner. She…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Digital Design

MarCom 2009 - New, Exciting, Educational

As a Marketing Communications professional, I am always looking for creative ways…

• 2 min read
EDI , EDI system , encounter digital implementation system , Digital Implementation

SoC and IP

The Great Escape, Part II: How These Companies Exited the DRAM Business

Case Histories of Significant DRAM Market Withdrawals : This article continues…

• 18 min read

Verification

Inside Cadence: "Stars & Strikes" charity event

Allow me to make a brief digression from EDA technology blogging to give you all…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , charity benefit , Stars and Strikes festival

Verification

Where's the Bridge to Cross the Great Divide?

At this year's Embedded System Conference in San Jose there was a panel with the…

• 8 min read
windows , dwarfdump , VMware , Embedded Systems Conference 2009 , ISX , Hardware/software co-verification , linux

Verification

New "E" text editor and e templates

Imagine Team Specman's surprise when we came across this article on Slashdot about…

• 1 min read
IEEE 1647 , eclipse , Specman , Functional Verification , e , AMIQ , verification , IES-XL
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