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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR3 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR3 production release is now available for download.

KomalJohar
• 4 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog

Corporate News

Cadence Tapes Out UCIe IP Solution at 64G Speeds on TSMC N3P Technology

Delivering the next wave of chiplet innovation, Cadence has successfully taped out…

Corporate
• 2 min read
news story , ucie , featured , chiplets , TSMC N3P

Cadence Japan

業界初、エッジAI・AI搭載PC向けeUSB2V2エンドツーエンドデモをCESで公開

CES 2026で業界初のeUSB2V2エンドツーエンドデモを公開。AI PCやエッジAI向けの省電力・高速伝送を実現する最新USB技術の詳細をご紹介します。

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured

Corporate News

Industry’s First End-to-End eUSB2V2 Demo for Edge AI and AI PCs at CES

Since their debut in 2023, AI PCs have taken the market by storm. Gartner projects…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , eUSB2v2 , Edge AI , Design IP , featured
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Verification

Transaction-Based Acceleration - Second generation

Transaction-Based Acceleration is becoming more and more important as an extension…

• less than a min read
System Design and Verification

RF Engineering

Tip of the Week: Please explain in more practical (less theoretical) terms the concept…

Question: From spectre -h pnoise. I find the definition for oscillator linewidth…

• 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 CheckSysConf? Plenty!

While I suspect that many of our customers have used or heard about the CheckSysConf…

• 3 min read
CheckSysConf , PCB design

Digital Design

Who Designed the iPhone?

When people ask you what you do for a living, is your response as clumsy as mine…

• 1 min read
Digital Implementation , iPhone

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Second Generation PCI Express spreading roots

According to Jag Bolaria of the Linley Group, the 5 Gbps version of PCI Express…

• less than a min read
PCB Signal and power integrity , SPB , SerDes , PCB design

Digital Design

Statistical Timing Analysis - Has its time arrived?

At 45nm chip designs, manufacturing and process control becomes increasingly difficult…

• 2 min read
Static timing analysis , STA , Digital Implementation , SSTA , corner analysis

Verification

Trip to SoCal "techtorials" on CDV

Just finished packing for a quick trip to Southern California to help kickoff a round…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV

Verification

Is anybody out there a Software Verification Engineer?

In my 2004 book, Co-Verification of Hardware and Software for ARM SoC Design , I…

• 3 min read
co-verification engineer , System Design and Verification , EDA

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Did you know? Enriched schematic content available in PDF files from DEHDL (ConceptHDL…

For years, Concept-SCALD, and ConceptHDL (DEHDL) customers have been using various…

• 1 min read

RF Engineering

Measuring Transistor ft

So let’s consider a practical example of creating test benches and performing measurements…

• 5 min read
Measuring Transistor ft , RF design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Shocking Technologies Becomes a Cadence Connections Member

In an announcement concurrent with Semicon West 2008, Shocking Technologies has …

• less than a min read
PCB Layout and routing , electrostatic discharge (ESD) dangers , Shocking Technologies , SPB , PCB design

Verification

C-to-Silicon Compiler Launch

On July 14th, Cadence introduced C-to-Silicon Compiler, a next-generation high-level…

• 1 min read
high-level synthesis adoption , C-to-Silicon Compiler

RF Engineering

Inductors On Demand, at least one RF design task can be really automated!

Inductors, transformers and transmission lines are critical components in any high…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Virtuoso PCD , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , Spectre , RF design , Circuit Design , Virtuoso Passive Component Designer , wireless integrated circuit verification

Digital Design

Customer Experiences With Low-Power Design

Hello and welcome to the new Cadence community site, and my first blog post. You…

• 4 min read
Low-Power , Logic Design , Digital Implementation , The Power Forward Initiative

Verification

Emulation Drivers - A growing set of selection criteria

Some say that the growth of the emulation market in last few years was driven by…

• 2 min read
Acceleration , System Design and Verification , Emulation , Hardware/software co-verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA?

What's Good About Differential Pair Support in ASA? Quite a bit actually! In…

• 1 min read
ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , PCB design , Differential Pair Support

Verification

The barriers to efficient System Level Design and Verification

The EDA industry been doing system level design and verification for years; we just…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification

Verification

Verification Hierarchy of Needs

Verification consultant Brian Bailey recently started blogging for Chip Design Magazine…

• 2 min read
Verification planning and management , System Design and Verification , Run and Debug

Analog/Custom Design

Hello from the custom design corner of Cadence

Greetings! My name is Steve Lewis and I'm a product marketing director working in…

• less than a min read
Custom IC Design
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