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Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR4 Now Available

Virtuoso Studio IC25.1 ISR4 production release is now available for download.

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• 5 min read
IC25.1 , featured , Cadence blogs , Virtuoso Studio , IC Release Announcement blog

Corporate News

The New Engineering Stack at NVIDIA GTC 2026

Together, accelerated computing and agentic AI are redefining both the engine and…

Corporate
• 4 min read
featured , GTC , NVIDIA , data center , digital twin

Cadence Japan

日本ケイデンス、「働きがいのある会社」 ベスト１００に5年連続で選出

日本ケイデンス・デザイン・システムズ社（横浜市港北区新横浜）は、Great Place To Work® Institute Japan（以下、GPTW Japan…

Cadence Japan
• less than a min read
news story , Culture , featured , japanese blog

Cadence Japan

プネー拠点設立20周年を迎えるケイデンス、長期的な研究開発へのコミットメントを強化

ケイデンスのプネー拠点は設立20周年。DSP IPやAIアクセラレータなど最先端の半導体IPを開発し、インドの人材育成・半導体戦略を推進。

Cadence Japan
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news story , featured , Cadence Culture , japanese blog
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System, PCB, & Package Design 

CDNLive! - 10 Gbit package design paper available to conference attendees

For those of you that attended CDNLive! but may have missed the presentation on multi…

• less than a min read
PDN , CDNLive , 3D-IC , TSV , Allegro 16.2 , SPB , SPB16.2 , SerDes , SI analysis and modeling

Verification

Report from last week's "ClubT" events; preview of next week

As promised, here are some photos last week events, with embedded color commentary…

• 1 min read
SystemVerilog , HW/SW , 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 , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions) , multi-language , coverage driven verification (CDV) , ISX , eRM , System Verification , OVM 2.0 , IES

Digital Design

Interview: CDNLive! People’s Choice Winner Jason Gentry

At the recently completed CDN Live! Silicon Valley 2008 user conference, I had a…

• less than a min read
dbGet , robust data access , CDNLive! , "SoC-Encounter"

Analog/Custom Design

Custom IC design and design environments

Design environments have come quite a long way from the time I began my engineering…

• 1 min read
Virtuoso IC 6.1.3 , RF design , Custom IC Design , custom design technology

Verification

Users Take Over at CDNLive! 2008

This year I did not attend CDNLive! in San Jose. I wasn't presenting anything and…

• 2 min read
HW/SW , CDNLive San Jose 2008 , Functional Verification' signal integrity , ISX (Incisive Software Extensions)

Analog/Custom Design

Thanks Mr. Colton: Imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery

Recognize the name Charles Caleb Colton? No? He was a British writer who in 1820…

• 1 min read
Custom IC Design

Verification

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…

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SoC-Encounter , iPhone Cisco VPN Client , Mocha VNC Lite , iPhone
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