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Accelerating System Design with Real-Time Simulation, Powered by AI Physics

Rising demand for AI infrastructure is driving faster innovation and smarter use…

Corporate
• 4 min read
CFD , featured , NVIDIA , accelerated compute , millennium

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR2 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR2 production release is now available for download.

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

Data Center

Innovation in Data Center Design and Operations: Highlights from Thésée Event

The Thésée event brought together key partners like France Télévisions, Thésée, Cadence…

Veena Parthan
• 5 min read
featured , Thésée Event , data center , Cadence Reality Digital Twin Platform

Corporate News

Don’t Miss the 2025 North America Open Meeting!

Join Visionaries, Discover Breakthrough Tech, and Power Your Next Big Idea Are you…

Corporate
• 1 min read
featured , innovation , Beta CAE , event , AI
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Digital Design

How To Use I/O Rows - It's a Snap!

Have you ever tried manually moving IO cells in your design and thought: "This would…

• 1 min read
encounter 8.1 , Floorplanning , Digital Implementation , i/o rows

Verification

SystemC Save and Restore Part 2 - Advanced Usage

In my last post I discussed how to use save / restore in the Cadence Incisive Simulator…

• 3 min read
System Design and Verification , embedded software , Incisive , virual platform , virtual prototype , George Frazier , SystemC , Hardware/software co-verification , ESL

Digital Design

Talk "Low Power" With The Experts

I am very excited about an event that Cadence low-power R&D and technical experts…

• less than a min read
Low Power , Digital Implementation forums , Low-Power , Power-Efficient Design , encounter , Logic Design , 8.1 , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1 , verification

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso MMSIM, Bringing Accuracy and Performance to a Neighborhood Near You

In order to bring our technology and developers closer to you the MMSIM team is…

• less than a min read
MMSIM , workshop , seminar , Custom IC Design

Digital Design

Constraint Construction: What's Its Function? Part 3 of 4

Part 3. EXCEPTION PATHS: For Every Rule, There Is An Exception More often than not…

• 2 min read
Constraint Design , STA , Encounter Digital Implementation , Encounter Timing System

Verification

OVM-e Sequence API Brings Increased Flexibility

Specman 8.2s2 adds new Application Programming Interface (API) methods to sequence…

• 6 min read
Specman , Functional Verification , API , OVM , e , eRM

Verification

Quick Tip: Searching for Special Characters in Cadence Help

[Team Specman welcomes back the Technical Publications Team to guest blog] A logical…

• less than a min read
Tech Pubs , Functional Verification , Cadence Help

Analog/Custom Design

The Value of Virtuoso as an Ecosystem

An ecosystem as defined by Webster's is a "system formed by the interaction of a…

• 3 min read
Virtuoso , Custom IC Design , C++ , SKILL

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Coplanar Waveguide Support in PCB SI? It's now in SPB16.2!

Coplaner waveguides (CPW) are widely used in packaging, high speed designs and on…

• 5 min read
SPB 16.2 , CPW Extraction , PCB design , coplanar

Verification

Exploring the Virtual Platform Part 5

Welcome to part 5 of the Exploring the Virtual Platform series. This is probably…

• 5 min read
busy box , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , linux

Verification

Five Common Pitfalls For Conference Panels

Panels are some of the most popular sessions at many technical conferences. Getting…

• 2 min read

Verification

Experiment With Cadence's MIPI VIP Live in The Xuropa Online Lab

At risk of being lost in all the excitement of DVCon 2009 last week , my colleagues…

• 1 min read
funtional verification , Functional Verification , Cadence VIP portfolio , VIP , MIPI , Xuropa

Verification

Summary of a Really Busy DVCon Week

Joe Hupcey has done his usual fine job of documenting DVCon ( day 1 , day 2 , day…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , OVM , DVcon , SystemC

Verification

OVM Multi-language Libraries – A Closer Look

Originally architected for multiple languages, the OVM is now available for all…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , OVM , VIP , OVM e , OVM SV , e , multi-language , SystemC , OVM SC , AOP

Verification

DVCon 2009 - Day 3

Today I was able to cover a paper on "OVM-based Methodology for Low Power Designs…

• less than a min read
funtional verification , verification strategy , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Testbench simulation , DVcon

Verification

ESL Design - SystemC TLM2 IP Authoring: A Practical Experiment

Introduction ESL Virtual Platforms (systems or sub-systems) require heterogeneous…

• 8 min read
IP-XACT , System Design and Verification , Incisive , virtual prototype , Spirit , SystemC , osci registers , systemrdl

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Checkpoint Restart For Digital and Mixed Circuits? It's In SPB16

Checkpoint Restart for Digital and Mixed Circuits will allow PSpice users to set…

• 2 min read
Checkpoint , SPB 16.2 , PCB design , AMS simulation

Verification

DVCon 2009 - Day 2

Here are some pictures from DVCon 2009 Day 2, focusing on the OVM Case Studies lunch…

• less than a min read
SaaS , Verification methodology , OVM , OVM-e , DVcon

Digital Design

Demo: Automatic Floorplan Synthesis in Encounter

As an Applications Engineer, the first demonstrations you deliver of a new technology…

• 1 min read
MasterPlan , Floorplanning , Digital Implementation , Encounter Digital Implementation System 8.1
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