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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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The cell world

Earlier this Summer, I was lucky enough to attend the CDNLive show in Japan. One…

• 5 min read
IBM , Playstation , Toshiba , cell processor , Sony

System, PCB, & Package Design 

TSV, mainstream or niche?

I'm sure many of you will have read the article in Advanced Packaging click_here…

• 1 min read
Analog and RF SiP design , Digital SiP design , 3D-IC , IDMs , TSV , IC Packaging & SiP design , IC Package Physical layout and co-design

Analog/Custom Design

Latest Virtuoso news from CDNLive!

Hey Folks, thanks to all of you who participated in CDNLive SV. There was a lot of…

• 1 min read
CDNLive , Freescale , Virtuoso , Custom IC Design

Verification

In the EU next week for "ClubT" verification events

I'll be in the EU next week supporting "ClubT" events focused on advanced verification…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , verification strategy , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , Verification IP modeling , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: A brief Re-cap

Wow - what a great time I had attending this year's CDNLive! 2008 event in San Jose…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

Analog/Custom Design

Video Demo: Spectre Turbo - Fasten your Seatbelts!!

Although Spectre Turbo was released back in April, I hadn't found time to fully tinker…

• 1 min read

Verification

Embedded Software Bugging and Debugging

In one of my previous posts I introduced an interesting book titled Dreaming in Code…

• 4 min read
bugging and debugging' , System Design and Verification , embedded software

Verification

Getting more value from the OVM using Metric-Driven Verification

With all of the momentum around the OVM these days there has been a lot of good discussion…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , coverage driven verification (CDV) , eRM

Verification

Verification community comes together to talk tech

I just finished the week at Cadence's CDNLive User Group in San Jose. Over the past…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Formal Analysis , Open Verification Methodology , Testbench simulation , OVM , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Simulation acceleration , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification

Verification

A few thoughts on CDNLive! and OVM 2.0

My colleague Joe Hupcey has been keeping you informed and entertained with information…

• 1 min read
CDNLive San Jose 2008 , OVM 2.0

Verification

OVM 2.0 -- Short Technical Review

By now you may have seen the official announcement of the OVM 2.0 release . So what…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Verification methodology , OVM , CDV , System Verification , OVM 2.0

Verification

Day 3 of CDNLive San Jose

Highlights of Day 3: papers all morning, lunch, then closing remarks. Comments on…

• less than a min read
verification strategy , Verification methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , Enterprise Manager , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , Plan and metrics management , Verification IP modeling , ISX

Digital Design

Running SoC-Encounter...from an iPhone

Hello from CDNLive Silicon Valley 2008! I've had a great few days out here interacting…

• less than a min read
SoC-Encounter , iPhone Cisco VPN Client , Mocha VNC Lite , iPhone

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! Track 8 - The Place to Be!

Lively presentation on IBIS-AMI modeling, multi-gigabit package design, 3D field…

• less than a min read
CDNLive , cadence , SPB , SPB16.2 , wirebond profile library , Kulicke & Soffa

Verification

Day 2 of CDNLive San Jose 2008

Highlights of Day 2: more great papers (with enough customer papers on OVM fill almost…

• less than a min read

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 3 ... Product Roadmaps, More Presentations, and Poker…

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Each day continues to show the value that…

• 2 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design

Verification

Day 1 of CDNLive San Jose 2008

Suffice to say, Day 1 was quite a full day, with the highlight for me being some…

• less than a min read
AMS , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Multi-domain verification: HW/SW co-verification , multi-language

System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose: Day 2 ... Welcome, Keynote Speakers, Presentations

From the floor of CDNLive! 2008 - San Jose Wow! What an exciting, power packed, and…

• 1 min read
CDNLive! 2008 , PCB design , Michael Catrambone

Verification

Enterprise Verification gets a boost (a big one!)

Today we announced important new metric-driven verification capabilities in our enterprise…

• less than a min read
Verification methodology , CDNLive , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Enterprise Manager , Plan and metrics management , coverage driven verification (CDV) , IES
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