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CadenceLIVE India 2025 Recap – Where Inspiration Meets Innovation

On August 13, 2025, CadenceLIVE India 2025 set the stage for a remarkable convergence…

Reela
• 2 min read
featured , cadence , AI-Driven Design , cadencelive , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR1 production release is now available for download.

Virtuoso Release Team
• 1 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Blog Announcement

Corporate News

MSU Leveraging Intel 16 and the Cadence Tool Flow for Academic Chip Tapeout

Morgan State University (MSU) recently received an Apple Innovation Grant, designed…

Corporate
• 4 min read
news story , featured , Cadence Academic Network

Digital Design

Himax Accelerates Chip Design with Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer

Himax Technologies Inc ., a leading supplier and fabless manufacturer of display…

Vinod Khera
• 2 min read
featured , Cadence Cerebrus Intelligent Chip Explorer , Digital Implementation , AI/ML
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Digital Design

Programmatically Troubleshooting Timing Violations With "report_timing -collection…

Has something like the following ever happened to you? You've placed and optimized…

• 4 min read
Static timing analysis , CTE-TCL , Digital Implementation , scripting , tcl

Digital Design

How to Create a Repeating Power Switch Pattern with addPowerSwitch

I mentioned in my last post that I'd been having lots of fun with power switches…

• 2 min read
Low Power , Digital Implementation , addpowerswitch

Verification

Tech Tip - Double Wall Clock Performance with One Easy Step

[Please welcome guest blogger Silas McDermott, an Application Engineer in our Field…

• 2 min read
Specman , e , Aspect Oriented Programming , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES , AOP

Verification

Scalable OVM Register and Memory Package

Drawing on nearly a decade of experience, Cadence has just posted the first release…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , OVM , vr_ad , Register Package , e , eRM

Verification

Of EDA Vendors and Conferences

There's an interesting thread on Cool Verification ( http://www.coolverification…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Brad Griffin Speaks at DesignCon - Give Him a Listen!!

If you were not lucky enough to be atDesignCon this week, and many of us were not…

• less than a min read
PDN , cadence , Digital SiP design , Advanced Node , IC Packaging & SiP design , SerDes , IC design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design , design chain

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About ASA Differential Pair Swapping? - The Secret's in the SPB16.2 Release

And the new features list just keeps going on and on - it's terrific! In the SPB16…

• 1 min read
SPB 16.2 , ASA , PCB design , differential Pair Swapping , Allegro

Verification

Exploring the Virtual Platform Part 3

Welcome to part 3 of the "Exploring the Virtual Platform" series. For readers just…

• 4 min read

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Advanced Parallel Simulation Leveraging Parallelization Technology.

There is an interesting interview with Nebabie Kebebew, Sr. Product Marketing Manager…

• less than a min read
mixed-signal simulators , Chip-level simulation , MMSIM , Block-level simulation , Virtuoso , AMS simulation , Circuit Design , Simulators , Custom IC Design , custom design technology

Verification

Report From DesignCon 2009

This week the " DesignCon " show is in town (<= 10 minutes from the Cadence campus…

• 2 min read
DesignCon , Functional Verification

Verification

Good Article Alert: End "EDA Bashing"

Allow me to direct your attention to a most welcome article in EDA DesignLine written…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , edadesignonline , EDA

SoC and IP

Web Survey: LP DDR and DDR3 DRAMs

LP DRAMs and PC DDR3 DRAMs: Vendors’ Portfolios Fill out Slowly (LP) and Rapidly…

• 3 min read

Verification

Incisive Software Extensions (ISX) vs Co-Verification Link (CVL)

Team Specman has been doing a great job supplying nifty tech tips and other useful…

• 3 min read
CVL , Co-verification link , System Design and Verification , Specmen , Incisive Software Extensions , ISX

Verification

Linking C and e: The Co-Verification Link

[Join Team Specman in welcoming guest blogger Jason Andrews. Jason is a recognized…

• 3 min read
Specman , HW/SW , C , e , ISX , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , Jason Andrews , IES

Verification

"...Yes, Virginia there is a Specman"

I usually try to visit many of our customers in Europe (and other parts of the world…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , IntelliGen , Specman , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , e , coverage driven verification (CDV) , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , AOP

Verification

Interview With Cadence Verification IP Architect Levent Caglar

Even in these challenging economic times, interest in Verification IP ("VIP") has…

• less than a min read
verification strategy , Functional Verification , VIP , Levent Caglar

RF Engineering

SpectreRF Turbo: Parasitic Reduction

I wanted to share some experiences I had with SpectreRF-Turbo and Parasitic reduction…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso Spectre , Spectre RF , Parasitic Reduction , RF Block Simulation , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator GXL , Virtuoso Spectre Simulator XL , RF design , harmonic balance , Turbo

Digital Design

Demo and Interview: The Encounter Foundation Flow

One of the new features I mentioned in my previous entry on 3 Reasons You'll Want…

• 5 min read
Flows , 8.1 , Encounter Digital Implementation

Digital Design

A dbGet Code Example

I've been having a lot of fun with power switch cells lately. That's a whole other…

• 3 min read
database access , SoC-Encounter , dbGet , dbSet , Digital Implementation
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