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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

The Role of Coverage in Formal Verification, Part 2

As noted in the prior installment of this series, there are three main questions…

• 4 min read
ABV , methodology , verification strategy , coverage , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , Model-checking , formal , Coverage-Driven Verification , Incisive , SVA , PSL , assertions , IEV , IFV , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI Model Library Management? Look to SPB16.3 and See!

The SPB16.3 release of Design Entry HDL (DEHDL) provides an easier method for setting…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB , SCM , SI , SPB16.3 , Allegro Design Entry , diff pairs , Signal Intregrity , DEHDL , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , property , Library flow , SPB , PCB Editor , Constraint Manager , ASA , Allegro System Architect (ASA) , Front-end PCB design , design , PCB Signal integrity , PCB design , Design Entry , differential pairs , SI analysis and modeling , File Directives , Differential Pair Support , ConceptHDL , dml , model editor , Schematic

Verification

Specman/e Users Voice Their Opinions on Benefits of e over SystemVerilog

A recent customer blog interview with Geoffrey Faurie from ST Microelectronics and…

• 3 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , OVM ML , Testbench simulation , OVM e , EDA , e , e language , team specman , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , simulation , AOP , Functional Verificatioa , IES-XL

Verification

Achieve the Next Level of Verification Productivity with Specman Advanced Option

Advanced verification customers are seeing their verification environments getting…

• 3 min read
Specman , Object Oriented Programming , debug , Functional Verification , Testbench simulation , e , e language , team specman , Aspect Oriented Programming , eRM , testbench , IES , AOP , verification , IES-XL , Trailblazer

Verification

In Verification, Failing to Plan = Planning to Fail

So I know you tell your kids this, you tell your spouse this, you heard it from…

• 2 min read
uvm , Verification methodology , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , vPlan , MDV techtorial , verification planning , Incisive , Enterprise Manager , Enterprise Planner , FPGA , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About APD Wire Bonding? SPB16.3 has MANY New Enhancements!

As with every new release, a primary focus for the Allegro Package Designer (APD…

• 14 min read
IC Packaging and SiP Design , SPB16.3 , IC Packaging , global route , Routing , Allegro 16.3 , layer stacks , SPB 16.3 , APD , SPB , PCB Editor , High-Density Interconnect , BGA , Layout , design , "PCB design" , PCB design

Verification

There's Another Simulation Failure! New SimVision Features Can Help

Simulation failures are seen quite often in design verification. Fortunately, with…

• 4 min read
uvm , debug , Functional Verification , simvision , Incisive , Silicon Realization

Verification

Applying Digital-Centric Verification Methodologies to Analog

A majority (if not all) SoCs today are mixed signal. Increasingly, the analog and…

• 4 min read
AMS , Low Power , Real Value Modeling , Functional Verification , Mixed Signal Verification , Mixed-Signal , metric-driven verification , SoC Connectivity , System Verification , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , IP modeling , RVM

Verification

My Reason For Choosing e – a Much More Advanced Verification Language. What’s Your…

I'd like to share with you a story from many, many, many moons ago when I first evaluated…

• 7 min read
SystemVerilog , Specman , debug , Functional Verification , e , e language , Aspect Oriented Programming , AOP

Verification

More on the Benefits of Metric-Driven Formal Analysis and Verification (MDV + ABV…

We interrupt R&D's Vinaya Singh's excellent series on "The Role of Coverage in Formal…

• 2 min read
Alok Jain , ABV , metric driven verification (MDV) , Functional Verification , Formal Analysis , vPlan , corner cases , formal , EDA360 , verification planning , Coverage-Driven Verification , Enterprise Manager , intent , Enterprise Planner , Silicon Realization , coverage driven verification (CDV) , MDV , IEV , IFV , Coverage Driven Verification , verification

Verification

What Does Silicon Realization Mean for Verification Engineers?

Last May , I posed a question about what EDA360 means for verification engineers…

• 2 min read
performance , uvm , Functional Verification , vPlan , formal , OVM , VIP , EDA360 , Multi-Core , Incisive , Silicon Realization , metric-driven verification , multicore , IEV , simulation , IES , IFV

Verification

How Elastic is Your Business?

Facing a verification overrun, you poached resources, clocked overtime, and kept…

• 3 min read
Functional Verification , verification planning , profitability , business , elastic , metric-driven verification , MDV

Verification

Infinite Playbook for the Verification Superbowl

Its 4th and long, you're down by six, the clock is running out, and you are wary…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , uvm , debug , Functional Verification , OVM , EDA360 , Multi-Core , Incisive , Silicon Realization , Incisive Enterprise Simulator (IES) , Accellera VIP TSC , simulation , IES

Digital Design

Advanced Maneuvers in Feedthrough Insertion: Maximizing Routability while Minimizing…

Previously I wrote about the basics of feedthrough insertion in Encounter . Today…

• 2 min read
EDI system , hierarchical design , feedthrough insertion , encounter , Digital Implementation

Verification

System Realization Webinars in 2010 -- A Summary

Last year was unprecedented for Cadence. We came up with the EDA360 vision , reorganized…

• 5 min read
High-Level Synthesis , TLM , Fast Models , IP-XACT , Models , system realization , TLM 2.0 , Calypto , TSMC , Magillem , virual platform , virtual protoype , virtual prototype , Jeda , Imperas , Virtual Platforms , CircuitSutra , TLM 2.0-driven design , XtremeEDA , SystemC TLM2 , ESL , CoFluent , System Design and Verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What's Good About PCB SI Metal Surface Roughness? SPB16.3 Has Some New Enhancements

Happy New Year! Electromagnetic Solution 2D (EMS2D) is designed for accurate transmission…

• 2 min read
PCB SI , PCB , EMS2D , SI , RF , SPB16.3 , SiP , Signal Intregrity , Digital SiP design , SigXP UI , Allegro 16.3 , SPB 16.3 , electromagnetic , field solver , PCB design , EM , SI analysis and modeling , Allegro

Analog/Custom Design

SKILL for the Skilled: What is SKILL++?

The way SKILL++ deals with functions is a bit different than the way traditional…

• 5 min read
Team SKILL , hierarchy , Virtuoso , Lisp , Custom IC Design , SKILL++ , SKILL , Allegro

Verification

How I Nearly Had My Own “Subtract Bug” in a CPU Design

In a recent blog post , I talked about learning a public lesson on the importance…

• 3 min read
divide , subtract bug , debug , Functional Verification , bugs , corner cases , Cydrome , subtract , add , verification

Verification

More on the SystemC ARM Linux Boot Loader

My last post described a Linux Loader for ARM Virtual Platforms . Taking a closer…

• 3 min read
virtual platforms , android , boot loader , SystemC , ARM , debugging , linux , kernel
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