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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

Corporate News

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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Verification

Welcome to the "Exploring the Virtual Platform" Series

Today I'm starting a series of articles related to what is commonly called the Virtual…

• 5 min read
virtual platform , System Design and Verification , virtual protoype

Verification

Aart DeGeus' Surprise Comment at Last Night's EDAC CEO Forum

Last night the Electronic Design Automation Consortium ("EDAC", the trade group for…

• 2 min read
IEEE 1647 , events , Functional Verification , e , EDAC

Verification

Generation Debugging With "IntelliGen" (With Video)

You might have seen the Generation Debugger of Specman's new Generation Engine IntelliGen…

• 3 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , e , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

RF Engineering

MMSIM 7.1 Enhancements Benefit RF Designers!

The 7.1 release of MMSIM is scheduled for mid-January. There are many exciting RF…

• 2 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in Allegro PCB Editor? More Features…

Some very helpful new features for Differential Pair support are available in in…

• 3 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , Differential Pair Support , Allegro

Digital Design

Cool Way to Add Vias!

I knew this functionality existed, but I hadn't really put it to use until yesterday…

• 1 min read
SoC-Encounter , via , Digital Implementation , Add Via

Verification

Predictions for 2009

Having summarized the main verification technology-specific observations that the…

• 3 min read
Specman , HW/SW , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , OSCI , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , SystemC , ISX , System Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Verification

Functional Coverage for Embedded Software

Hardware verification has evolved into keeping track of a pile of different types…

• 3 min read
FoCus , IBM , System Design and Verification , Specmen , DV club

RF Engineering

Tip of the Week: Guidelines for getting accurate HB QPSS/QPNoise results

Two of the most important parameters for accuracy are: (1) maxharms (2) oversample…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design

Verification

The New Generation Testcase Utility

Specman's new Generation Engine, "IntelliGen", adopts an entirely new generation…

• 4 min read
IntelliGen , Specman , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

RF Engineering

How to Simulate a Subcircuit (Netlist) With Spectre in ADE

Many users ask, "How do I instantiate a netlist into my schematic and simulate with…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , Circuit Design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The SPB16.2 PCB SI Release? Full Wave Field Solver!

The SPB16.2 PCB SI release now contains the Electromagnetic Solution 2D Full Wave…

• 6 min read
PCB Layout and routing , SPB 16.2 , field solver , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Verification

A Look Back On 2008 (Before Hazarding Predictions for 2009)

Before I dare take a stab at adding to the many predictions already made for 2009…

• 4 min read
HW/SW , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , e , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , coverage driven verification (CDV)

Verification

The Eternal Debate: "Like" vs. "When" Inheritance

First: Happy New Year, Specmaniacs! Much like the rivarly between the New York Yankees…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , verification strategy , Functional Verification , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

Digital Design

Coming This Friday January 9th: Encounter Digital Implementation Office Hours

Happy New Year everyone! I hope you all had a restful, enjoyable and healthy holiday…

• 1 min read
Digital Implementation forums , chat , Encounter Digital Implementation

Verification

Power tool: The Reflection API

One endless source of neat little tricks is the Reflection API built into Specman…

• 1 min read

Verification

Metric-Driven Verification in a Box...

In my last few posts, I was explaining our focus here in Cadence Verification on…

• 1 min read
metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , e , Verification IP modeling , eRM

Verification

Make Your Command Line Life Easier With "specman -e"

Hi All, It always amazes me to see just how many Specman users make use of the interactive…

• 1 min read
Specman , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Verification

Who said Cadence Can't Invent New Technology Anymore?

I and the rest of the Cadence C-to-Silicon Compiler (CtoS) team were thrilled yesterday…

• 1 min read
deepchip , System Design and Verification , C-to-Silicon
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