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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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Analog/Custom Design

What's New With Virtuoso?

If you were wondering what's new with Virtuoso you may want to check out the latest…

• less than a min read
MMSIM , Floorplanning , Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , Virtuoso , RF design , Custom IC Design

Verification

Metric Driven System Level Verification

I have the great honor of introducing a wonderful paper on system level verification…

• 1 min read
System Design and Verification , ARC International , ISX

Verification

VMM Users -- Welcome to the OVM!

VMM users -- welcome to the OVM! We've been talking together about the benefits…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , OVM , VIP , e , eRM , OVMWorld

Digital Design

3 Reasons Why You Will Want to Download Encounter 8.1

Today is a big day in Digital Implementation land here at Cadence. Looking around…

• less than a min read
Flows , SoC-Encounter 8.1 , Low-Power , Digital Implementation , Floorplanning and Prototyping

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About the SPB16.2 Cross Referencer? Active Links in the Schematic!

That's right - an often requested feature from several customers has now been implemented…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design

Digital Design

Innovate Your Way Out of Recession With the New Encounter!

It's official! The U.S. economy has been in a recession for the past year. …

• 2 min read
Static timing analysis , Early Rail Analysis , SoC-Encounter , Digital Implementation forums , First Encounter , SoC-Encounter 8.1 , Signoff Analysis , STA , encounter , Cadence Encounter Power System , Digital Implementation , CeltIC NDC , Global Timing Debug , Encounter Timing System , SSTA , Floorplanning and Prototyping , "SoC-Encounter"

Verification

News From the IP '08 Conference

My colleagues on the Verification IP team have been honored to present at the annual…

• 3 min read
HW/SW , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , VIP , Coverage-Driven Verification , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Verification IP modeling , ISX

Digital Design

Demo: Using the Pin Editor in SoC-Encounter

SoC-Encounter has automatic partition pin assignment capabilites. The tool also…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , partitioning , hierarchical design , Digital Implementation , Pin Editor

Verification

Follow-up on Posedge Software Interview

Just a quick follow-up to my previous interview with Henry Von Bank of Posedge Software…

• less than a min read
posedge , System Design and Verification , ISX

Verification

e Running Inside VCS Anniversary Updates?

It's been a year since I heard the first solid report about Synopsys supporting…

• less than a min read
IEEE 1647 , Specman , Testbench simulation , e , multi-language , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IES

Digital Design

Tapeout!

With an early December tapeout looming, I've found myself too busy to write a post…

• 3 min read
ECO , LEC , DRC , LVS , Digital Implementation , Power Analysis , tapeout

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Advanced Plating Bar Checks - Check out the SPB16.2 Release and…

New functionality has been added to the SPB16.2 Allegro Advanced Package Designer…

• 7 min read
SPB 16.2 , BGA , advanced package designer , advanced plating bar check , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Virtualization and Verification With Posedge Software

Posedge Software is a Cadence Verification Alliance Member with skills in two of…

• 5 min read
posedge , open virtual platforms , System Design and Verification , OVP , QEMU

Verification

Thoughts on AMS Verification Inspired by the DV Club Lunch

Last week I had the pleasure of attending a DV Club lunch presentation from Dr.…

• 2 min read
AMS , verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About HDI Via Structures - Check out the SPB16.2 Release and See!

New functionality has been added to the SPB16.2 Allegro PCB Editor suite of tools…

• 12 min read
SPB 16.2 , LMB , via , PCB design , microvia

Digital Design

Coming This Friday November 14th: SoC-Encounter Office Hours

I've really been enjoying the discussions in our Digital Implementation Forums…

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

Digital Design

How to Change a Net Name

This is a question that comes up once every few months or so: "How do I change the…

• less than a min read
Digital Implementation

Digital Design

Demo: Partitioning a Design in SoC-Encounter

One of the longest standing capabilities in SoC-Encounter is its ability to partition…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , partitioning , hierarchical design , screencast , Digital Implementation

Verification

Heads-up: Formal + Productivity Flow Technical Webinar Coming Up On Nov 12th

Heads-up: there is a free technical webinar next Wednesday 11/12 that goes deeper…

• 2 min read
FPV , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , coverage driven verification (CDV)
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