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Cadence Giving Foundation Leads a Day of Collective Community Impact

On June 25, the Cadence Giving Foundation brought together an extraordinary coalition…

Corporate
• 2 min read
Cadence Giving Foundation , featured , san jose , Collective Impact Day , City Year Bay Area

Corporate News

The Three Phases of AI Adoption

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

Corporate
• 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…

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

Corporate News

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
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Cadence at MWC: Does This Headset Make Me Look Silly?

Cadence has attended MWC ever since it acquired Tensilica, and they attended for…

• 4 min read

Digital Design

Have DRC Tools Run Out of Steam? – Part 1

In the EDA history of design rule check (DRC), there have been two distinct eras…

• 3 min read
Physical verification , DRC , design rule check

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ESD Alliance Panel on Energy Policy for the IoT Era

BREAKING NEWS: I just received an email that the panel I wrote about here has been…

• 4 min read
california energy commission , energy policy , ESDA , IoT , Internet of Things , san jose city hall , cec , esd alliance

Verification

Static Members in e

How do you define elegant or clean code? Usually, you know it when you see it; defining…

• 9 min read
Specman , Incisive , e language , static , xcelium , verification

Breakfast Bytes

Reliability in Monterey: a Preview of IRPS

The major conference on semiconductor reliability is the International Reliability…

• 4 min read
international reliability and physics symposium , Intel , IBM , Monterey , irps , NASA , reliability

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GF Silicon Photonics: Fiber Attach Is the Secret Sauce

A lot of constraints in datacenters are fixed even though others are increasing.…

• 5 min read
fiber attach , linley group , linley cloud hardware conference , silicon photonics , GlobalFoundries

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Noise Simulation in Spectre RF Using Improved Pnoise/Hbnoise…

Did you check out the new Pnoise and Hbnoise Choosing Analyses forms in the MMSIM…

• 4 min read
Spectre RF , noise simulation , Virtuoso , Virtuoso Video Diary

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MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 2

This is the second of a two part post about the future of mobile, long-term dreams…

• 9 min read
softbank , veon , at&t , gsma , Mobile World Congress , ARM

SoC and IP

Memory Trends for Automotive Markets

Remember automobiles from a few years ago? They were pretty simple machines with…

• 4 min read
Design IP , IP , Memory , LPDDR4 , LPDDR , DIP , memory IP , Design IP and Verification IP , memories

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Eliminate the Memory Bottleneck with Universal Flash Sto…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Ofir Michaeli discusses Universal Flash…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , UFS

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What's For Breakfast? Video Preview March 13th to 17th 2017

https://youtu.be/ZhpHKzcdVK8 Coming from San Jose City Hall Monday: ESD…

• less than a min read
energy policy , linley group , IoT , DRC , Mobile World Congress , TSMC , linley cloud hardware conference , TSMC Technology Symposium , MWC , Internet of Things , design rule checking , optical networking , esd alliance , networking

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MWC: The Future of Mobile: Part 1

There were two sessions that MWC calls "keynotes", but are actually groups of several…

• 8 min read
softbank , veon , at&t , gsma , Mobile World Congress , ARM

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MWC: Everything is Mobile Now

Every year, Mobile World Congress (MWC) takes place in Barcelona, Spain. Historically…

• 10 min read
Mobile World Congress , un sdg , sustainable development goals , nokia , MWC , netflix , mobile , mdg , strive masiyawa , millennium development goals , africa

Verification

Specman in Xcelium

Just recently Cadence announced the new superb simulator, Xcelium . Just as Specman…

• 5 min read
IEEE 1647 , funtional verification , Specman , Functional Verification , e , e language , Funcional Verification , specman elite , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , verification , IES-XL

Verification

Portable Stimulus Shines at DVCon

For me, this week was almost entirely consumed with the Design and Verification Conference…

• 4 min read
uvm , prototyping , pswg , Acceleration , Functional Verification , Perspec , System Design and Verification , Palladium , SoC , Emulation , Simulation acceleration , DVcon , Accellera , metric-driven verification , Hardware/software co-verification , portable stimulus , simulation , verification

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Intel's Investor Conference: Now Leading with Datacenter

Intel had its investor day recently. I'm not going to talk about Intel as an investment…

• 7 min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why is Power Integrity Hot (or is it Cool)?

When designing next-generation products, the common theme is "faster, smaller, cheaper…

• 2 min read
Power Integrity , electrical-thermal co-simulation , Sigrity , thermal

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Do You Know What Stingray Is?

If you are my age and grew up in Britain, then Stingray was one of the fore-runners…

• 4 min read
imsi catcher , law enforcement , mobile , stingray

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Litho Physical Analyzer PLUS

Next week it is the SPIE Advanced Lithography Conference (and DVCon, and MWC in Barcelona…

• 3 min read
asml , imec , Virtuoso , Innovus , LPA , lpa plus
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