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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 Samuel
• 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

Virtuosity: Custom IC Design Flow/Methodology – Circuit Layout

Read this blog for an overview to the Circuit Layout design stage in Custom IC Design…

• 6 min read
Virtuoso Schematic Editor , Virtuoso Space-based Router , Virtuoso Placer , Layout Suite , Layout , ICADVM20.1 , Custom IC Design , Virtuoso Layout Suite EXL , Virtuoso Layout Suite , IC6.1.8 , Virtuoso Layout Suite XL

Breakfast Bytes

Photonics Keynote: Transitioning from Electrical to Optical I/O

At last year's Photonics Summit, actually held earlier this year due to technical…

• 5 min read
Intel , Photonics Summit , silicon photonics , photonics

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Spectre Tech Tips: Spectre Strobe機能の使用

Spectre®回路シミュレータをご利用のお客様で、SpectreのStrobe機能で対応可能な用途にmaxstep機能を使用しているケースが時々見受けられます…

• 1 min read
Fast Fourier Transform , ADE Explorer , strobe , Spectre Circuit Simulator , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso IC6.1.8 , japanese blog , ADE Assembler

Academic Network

Organic Printed Electronics PDK Education Kit Available Now

The Virtuoso Education Kit has just been released and now there is already a new…

• 3 min read
Cadence Academic Networ , Education Kits , Virtuoso , Organic Printed Electronics

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Lunch & Learn and Women in Engineering at the ASME Turbo Expo 2022

Cadence is looking forward to meeting with you at the 'Lunch and Learn' and 'Women…

• 2 min read
CFD , Lunch and Learn , turbomachinery , ASME Turbo Expo , Pointwise , Turbo Thursday , Cadence Fidelity , women in engineering , engineering , simulation software , NUMECA , Women in CFD

Breakfast Bytes

Arm SystemReady Compliance Using Emulation

Yesterday in my post Cadence and Arm I wrote about how Cadence has worked with Arm…

• 3 min read
AVIP , Perspec , systemready , Palladium , Emulation , ARM

System, PCB, & Package Design 

ASCENT: Training Insights: Get Rid of Design Errors in Allegro System Capture

With thousands of components connected across a multi-layered board, anticipating…

• 5 min read
System Capture , 17.4 , Design Rule Checker , 17.4-2019 , Training Insights , Allegro System Capture , ASCENT , Schematic

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Meets Maxwell: Improving Manufacturability and Yield

This blog is to announce the official release of the Fillet capability. The Fillet…

• 2 min read
fillet , metal density , Virtuoso Meets Maxwell , Virtuoso RF Solution , T connections , Improving Manufacturability and Yield , Virtuoso RF , tapered traces

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence and Arm

I've been working with Arm for longer than Cadence has. In fact, I was working with…

• 6 min read
vlsi technology , cerebrus , Innovus , ARM

Computational Fluid Dynamics

Less than a Minute to Water-tight Geometry Using Fidelity CFD AutoSeal

Cadence Fidelity CFD offers AutoSeal technology, a geometry clean-up tool for faster…

• 3 min read
CFD , AutoSeal , geometry cleanup , Pointwise , CAD preparation , Fidelity CFD , engineering , simulation software , NUMECA , preprocessing

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Frequency Matters Podcast: System Analysis Solutions

By Sherry Hess Recently I posted a blog on LinkedIn called "High Tech Everything…

• less than a min read

Breakfast Bytes

The 2022 Kaufman Dinner

On May 12th, it was the Kaufman Award Ceremony and Banquet at which Cadence's CEO…

• 5 min read
kaufman dinner , Kaufman Award , Anirudh Devgan , kaufman award 2021

Breakfast Bytes

Sunday Brunch Video for 15th May 2022

https://youtu.be/F-dN8wy-iNc Made at Steve Brown's "moving to San Diego party" …

• less than a min read
sunday brunch

Academic Network

Searching on Cadence Support Is Now Even Easier!

The Cadence Learning and Support Portal is useful to academia in many ways: Online…

• 1 min read
Cadence Academic Network , Cadence Online Support , online training , university program

Breakfast Bytes

New Book: Hyperscale Computing Trends 2022

Cadence has a new book out. Written by Frank Schirrmeister and myself, it is called…

• 3 min read
hyperscaler , Schirrmeister , McLellan , book

Verification

Demystifying CXL.cache

If you have worked with Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) in the past…

• 3 min read
CXL , Functional Verification , pcie 5 , VIP , PCIExpress , coherency , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

IC Packagers: Three Reasons for Allegro Package Designer Plus Users to Move to OrCAD…

The HotFix 028 of our 17.4-2019 release was rolled out at the end of March and is…

• 1 min read
IC Packaging , APD , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Packagers , Allegro Package Designer , 17.4-2019 , 17.4 QIR4

Breakfast Bytes

What Is High-NA EUV?

I'm sure you know that the lowest levels of ICs fabricated at the most advanced nodes…

• 5 min read
asml , imec , SPIE , high-na euv , EUV

Computational Fluid Dynamics

CadenceLIVE Silicon Valley 2022 - CFD Track: Seven Reasons to Attend

On June 8th and 9th, it is CadenceLIVE Americas. It is planned to be in-person at…

• 3 min read
Computational Fluid Dynamics , fluid dynamics , CFD events , CFD Applications , simulation software
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