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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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Verification

Why the Demand for Acceleration and Emulation is Growing

The dream of any marketer is a growing demand for its product line. Let me start…

• 3 min read
emulator , ASIC , Acceleration , virtual platform , System Design and Verification , OVM , Palladium , Low power verification and analysis , Emulation , virtual prototype , System Design & Verification , Hardware/software co-verification , simulation , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Shorter, Predictable Design Cycles (SPDC) – Ensuring Critical Signals Have a Return…

This is third in the series of blog posts about making your design cycles predictable…

• 2 min read
PCB , DDR2 , High Speed , webinar , PCB design , return path , PCI Express , SATA , Standards based Interfaces , DDR3 , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Assertion Based Verification Methodology – Reality or a Dream? (Part 2)

The design and verification methodology for analog circuits has not changed much…

• 3 min read
ABV , assertion-based , Analog Simulation , analog , SoC , Mixed-Signal , SVA , PSL , AMS simulation , assertions , mixed signal , wreal , Custom IC Design , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Allegro Measure, Grids and Formulas? See For Yourself in SPB16

This week, I’m tossing together a mix of a few new SPB16.3 Allegro PCB Editor features…

• 2 min read
grids , PCB , PCB Layout and routing , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , SPB , formulas , PCB Editor , High-Density Interconnect , Layout , via , design , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Cline change , HDI , microvia , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

Advanced Mixed-Signal Designs Demand a Unified Methodology

Mobile, automotive, consumer and medical applications require the productive realization…

• 4 min read
conformal , RF , mixed-signal seminars , Low Power , CPF , abstraction , analog , ECOs , Mixed-Signal , Convergence , intent , Silicon Realization , mixed signal , signoff , SoCs

Verification

De-Mystifying SystemC: What is TLM?

In my last post I briefly mentioned that when designing hardware with SystemC, you…

• 2 min read
High-Level Synthesis , Registers , TLM , Models , C to Silicon , transaction level modeling , SystemC , Modeling , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro Continues Demonstration of New PDN Analysis Technology at DesignCon…

Today at DesignCon, drop by the Cadence booth to see TeamAllegro continue the demonstration…

• 1 min read
PCB SI , PCB , PCB PI , PDN , Power Delivery Network , PCB Signal integrity , IR drop , power , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About Capture Locking Objects? The Secret's in the SPB16.3 Release!

The Allegro Design Entry CIS (Capture - Allegro flow) now includes an object locking…

• 1 min read
SPB16.3 , Design Entry CIS , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Capture CIS , Capture-CIS , SPB , design , OrCAD , Design Entry , Schematic , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Cisco and Cadence Present Co-design Paper at DesignCon

Today at DesignCon, be sure to drop by Room 203 at 11:05 and see Cisco and Cadence…

• 1 min read
SiP , DesignCon , IC Package , Digital SiP design , Cisco , IC Packaging & SiP design , Physical layout and co-design

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro Showing New PCB PDN Analysis Technology at DesignCon 2011

Today at DesignCon, drop by the Cadence booth to see TeamAllegro demonstrate the…

• 1 min read
PCB , PCB PI , PDN , PCB Signal and power integrity , Power Delivery Network , full wave , IR drop , power , Allegro

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Team Allegro to Boost Power of PCB PDN Solution – Sneak Peek at DesignCon 2011

The Cadence booth at DesignCon 2011 will provide visitors with a demonstration of…

• 1 min read
PCB , DesignCon , PCB PI , PDN , PCB Signal and power integrity , TeamAllegro , Power Delivery Network , full wave , IR drop , power , Allegro

Verification

What Could Be Simpler than a Request-Acknowledge Handshake?

My last few blog posts have included three corner-case conditions that led to bugs…

• 3 min read
Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , formal , intent , assertions , simulation

Digital Design

Tackling your Greatest Chip Design Challenges with the Cadence Digital End-to-End…

It hasn't been that long, but do you recall your new year's resolution? Eat healthier…

• 6 min read
ECO , conformal , Low Power , Encounter Test , gigahertz , giga-gate , 3D-IC , 3DIC , encounter digital implementation system , Mixed-Signal , encounter , rtl compiler , Silicon Realization , Digital Implementation , 3D , mixed signal , Digital end-to-end flow

Verification

The Role of Coverage in Formal Verification, Part 2 Continued…

Recall that three main questions need to be answered to attain coverage in formal…

• 3 min read
ABV , methodology , verification strategy , coverage , debug , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , formal , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , Incisive , SVA , PSL , metric-driven verification , assertions , IEV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IFV

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About ADW’s Library Revision Manager and Browser? Check out the ADW16…

Here are just some of the new capabilities available in the ADW16.3 Allegro Design…

• less than a min read
PCB , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , DEHDL , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , Allegro Design Workbench , Library flow , LRM , Design Entry HDL , component browser , design , Library Revision Manager , PCB design , Design Entry , ADW 16.3 , Librarians , ConceptHDL , library , Schematic , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: Continued Introduction to SKILL++

In my previous posting , which provided an introduction to SKILL++, I showed a simple…

• 6 min read
Team SKILL , hierarchy , walkCvHier , IC 6.1.5 , Virtuoso , flet , Lisp , Custom IC Design , SKILL++ , SKILL

Analog/Custom Design

Analog Assertion Based Verification Methodology – Reality or a Dream? (Part 1)

There is no doubt in my mind that assertions will play a significant role in analog…

• 4 min read
SystemVerilog , AMS , ABV , assertion-based , coverage , analog , Constraint-driven , Mixed-Signal , SVA , Verilog , assertion , ADE-GXL , PSL , assertions , random , MDV , Custom IC Design

Verification

SystemC: It's Neither Complicated Nor Belligerent!

I was recently talking to a customer who was looking to move up in abstraction from…

• 2 min read
High-Level Synthesis , TLM , C to Silicon , system , SystemC , C++ , ESL , System Design and Verification

Verification

Video: Distinguished Engineer Alok Jain on Formal and Assertion-Based Verification…

Kicking off 2011, my colleague Alok Jain -- a Distinguished Engineer at Cadence who…

• less than a min read
Alok Jain , IP , ABV , verification strategy , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , ABVIP , formal , EDA360 , Coverage-Driven Verification , CDV , assertions , MDV , IEV , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IFV , verification
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