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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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System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About The SPB16.2 Release? WOW - Download It now!

The SPB16.2 release is now available (actually, it was available on 10/31/08 from…

• 2 min read
SPB 16.2 , PCB design , Allegro

Verification

Portable Design Names Cadence Incisive Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis its September…

In his article in Portable Design, John Donovan wrote: Palladium Dynamic Power Analysis…

• less than a min read
Portable Design , System Design and Verification , Palladium

Verification

Welcome Sharath Siddappa From Rambus, You Are The 5000th OVM World Registrant!

Welcome Sharath Siddappa, the 5000th OVM World registrant! In only 10 months, the…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , eRM , OVMWorld

Verification

OVM - The "O" Means Opportunity

A few months back I blogged that OVM was " Open for Business ". A nice play on words…

• 1 min read
Simantis , eclipse , KPIT , Functional Verification , IBM , Cadence VIP portfolio , OVM , Doulos

Verification

Report From the Advanced Verification Techtorial in San Jose Tuesday 10/28

I'm excited to report that Tuesday's techtorial, covering a range of topics underneath…

• 1 min read
Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Verification

The Power of Cadence System Power Flow vs. Viewing from the Top

I feel that I must respond to the following blog published by Frank Schirrmeister…

• 6 min read
Incyte Chip , System Design and Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator , Palladium , power engineer , C-to-Silicon , Power Analysis , Frank Schirrmeister

Verification

ESC Boston: Day 2

This morning before heading to ESC it dawned on me that the park across the street…

• 4 min read
System Design and Verification , ESC , ISX , Coverage Driven Verification

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: ViVA-XL - Fast Waveform Viewing

It’s happened to each of us at some point in time. Your long simulation is finally…

• less than a min read
ViVa-XL , MMSIM , Simulators , Custom IC Design , Fast Waveform Viewing

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Directive Locking?

Do you wish you could lock specific aspects of a DEHDL design content? Do you need…

• 5 min read
CPM Directive Control , DEHDL , Directive Lockhing , PCB design , SPB16.01

Verification

Virtualization Taxonomy

I arrived safe and sound at the Embedded Systems Conference in Boston today. It's…

• 2 min read
VM ware , virtualization , taxonomy , real-time systems , Embedded Systems Conference , System Design and Verification , ESC

Verification

OVM Momentum and Interoperability

The question of how to integrate legacy VMM VIP into OVM verification environments…

• 1 min read
OVM Professionals Network , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , VIP , Verification IP modeling

Verification

Verification Techtorial in San Jose next Tuesday 10/28

Apologies for the shameless promotion, but I can't resist touting an event I'm producing…

• less than a min read
Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , OVM , techtorial

Verification

Formal Moment Of Zen

Most of my experience in functional verification prior to my dabbling in FPV was…

• 3 min read
OVL , FPV , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , SCV , SVA , FIFO , PSL , Simulation acceleration , SystemC

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Need some stability in your Package Power?

It is not too late to sign up for the Package Power Integrity webinar that will be…

• less than a min read
PDN , IC Packaging & SiP design , SPB16.2 , SSN

Verification

Is Host-Code Execution History?

Before getting into the details of today's topic I'm happy to report a brand new…

• 5 min read
Cisco , System Design and Verification , MIPS , Palladium , Sun , Verilog , OVP , ARM , Virtutech , QEMU

Digital Design

Getting Started with dbGet

If you've been checking out the other blogs here in the Digital Implementation community…

• 2 min read
database access , SoC-Encounter , dbGet , dbSet

Verification

Top 5 Stumbling Blocks In FPV Adoption

My first post served as a context for this blog. It also telegraphed my intention…

• 5 min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , Testbench simulation , Coverage-Driven Verification

Verification

More on today's Verification IP portfolio expansion news

Today's announcement on our expanding Verification IP (VIP) portfolio inspired me…

• less than a min read
Functional Verification , Verification IP modeling , multi-language

Digital Design

An Interview with Global Timing Debug Architect Thad McCracken

So who is Thad McCracken and why should you be interesting in reading this blog entry…

• 8 min read
SoC-Encounter , Ostrich , Global Timing Debug
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