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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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Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Driving Along a Longer Route May Take You Home Sooner!

On my way back home every day, I need to make a decision — should I drive less, or…

• 4 min read
library manager , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , physConfig , CPH , copy library , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

Automotive IP Family for TSMC 16FFC

At the semiconductor level, automotive poses huge challenges due to an experience…

• 3 min read
OIP , tsmc 9000A , TSMC , renasas , Ethernet , PCIe , semiconductor IP , DDR , Breakfast Bytes

Digital Design

Why Pegasus Is the Biggest Breakthrough in SoC Physical Verification in 20 Years…

These days, DRC rule deck availability for the market tools is not a major issue…

• 3 min read
Physical verification , massively scalable , pegasus , DRC , Cloud ready

Breakfast Bytes

Xilinx/Arm/Cadence/TSMC Announce World's First 7nm CCIX Silicon Demonstrator; and…

"It takes a village to raise a child," as the African proverb says. It seems to take…

• 3 min read
ARM Techcon , cadence , ccix , TSMC , accelerator , xilinx , 7nm , Breakfast Bytes , FPGA

Breakfast Bytes

CDNLive Boston Keynotes

There were three keynotes to kick off CDNLive Boston. Tom Beckley gave the Cadence…

• 8 min read
Automotive , Tom Beckley , Protium , Palladium , silicon photonics , ADAS , Medtronic , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Neural Engineering System Design

At HOTCHIPS 2017, we had a special break so we could watch the eclipse. Of course…

• 4 min read
brain encoding , neuron , hotchips , Breakfast Bytes , cortical modem

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Saving, Loading and Sharing ADE Annotation Settings

The whole ADE annotation flow was overhauled way back in IC6.1.6 but at that time…

• 4 min read
ADE Explorer , Annotation Settings , ADE Annotations , ADE , Analog Design Environment , Schematic Editor , Virtuosity , Schematic , ADE Assembler , annotation setup

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview September 11th to 15th 2017

https://youtu.be/ljGLKZ0gz8c Coming from Singapore Botanic Garden (camera Page…

• less than a min read
OIP , ccix , TSMC

Breakfast Bytes

Quantus FS Field Solver for the FinFET Era

For any parasitic extraction tool, there is always a tradeoff between performance…

• 4 min read
Extraction , netlist , field solver , quantus fs , Breakfast Bytes , foundry

Verification

How To Create L3 Cache Command Overflow Stress Test in Less Than 2 Days

One category of difficult SoC tests to create are stress tests, to validate the limits…

• 4 min read
SoC verification , perspec system verifier , Accellera , pss , portable stimulus

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Benchmarking Deep Learning Platforms

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays episode, Mengjun Leng investigates different…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , deep learning

Breakfast Bytes

Naveed Sherwani Takes the Reins at SiFive

A couple of weeks ago, I talked to Naveed Sherwani, the new CEO of SiFive. For more…

• 5 min read
ASIC , risc-v , naveed sherwani , Breakfast Bytes , sifive

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: What Are Parametric Sets?

Over the past few IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.3 ISR releases, a lot of new and useful features…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Explorer , analog , ADE , Mixed-Signal , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso Video Diary , Circuit Design , mixed signal , Custom IC Design , Assembler , custom design technology , ADE Assembler , Cusstom IC Design

Breakfast Bytes

Four Early Computers, 3 and 4

This is a continuation of Four Early Computers: 1 and 2 . The story opens as our…

• 7 min read
ibm 1130 , ibm 370 , computer history museum , icl , ibm 360 , vax 11/780 , Breakfast Bytes , data general nova

Breakfast Bytes

Meeker on Internet Trends in India

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed…

• 5 min read
digital india , aadhaar , Mobile World Congress , mary meeker , ekyc , Breakfast Bytes , India

Breakfast Bytes

Meeker on Internet Trends in China

Every year, at the start of summer, Mary Meeker of Kleiner Perkins produces a detailed…

• 4 min read
China , uber , baidu , alibaba , whatsapp , on-demand transportation , wechat , taobao , mobile payment , tencent , ecommerce , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - ASR and the Breakthrough in the Deployment of Mass Market…

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Samer Hijazi, Senior Design Architect…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , deep learning , Automatic Speech Recognition , ASR

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Back in the Black with a Team-Based AC/DC Power Integrity Design and Analysis Me…

We hear from a lot of customers. Whether it’s asking for help using our IR drop analysis…

• 2 min read
PDN , Power Integrity , PowerTree , Sigrity , Power Deliver Network , Allegro

The India Circuit

CDNLive India 2017 Is Around the Corner!

It’s almost time for CDNLive India! For those of you who don’t know, CDNLive is Cadence…

• 2 min read
CDNLive India , CDNLive , cadence , Cadence India , user conference
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