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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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Battery Derangement Syndrome

I have written a fair bit recently about electric cars and electric trucks. Note…

• 9 min read
forbes , lithium battery , battery , lithium , silicon , Breakfast Bytes , mark mills

The India Circuit

Beyond Robots and Jetpacks at the Society of Women Engineers Conference in Pune

This event happened a while ago, but I thought it was still topical enough to blog…

• 2 min read
pune , bengaluru , we local , society of women engineers , grace hopper conference , bangalore , India

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Loading Complete 'Routing Recipes' with a Single Click

Have you checked out the new VSR Preset feature and the related forms in the IC6…

• 6 min read
automatic routing , resetting preset options , Virtuoso Space-based Router , preset file , vsrSavePreset , running SKILL in a VSR preset , VSR Delete Preset , loading a preset file , vsrLoadPreset , VSR Preset , Virtuosity , deleting a preset file , VSR Save Preset , vsrDeletePreset , saving a preset file , preset options , VSR Load Preset , VSR preset SKILL , Reset VSR Options

Breakfast Bytes

Discovery of the Electron

Today is the 120th anniversary of the discovery of the electron by J.J. Thomson in…

• 6 min read
nobel prize , electron , Einstein , j.j. thomson , thomson , Breakfast Bytes

Verification

How to Model State Machines in the Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard for Low Power…

The Accellera Portable Stimulus Standard (PSS) is experiencing growing customer interest…

• less than a min read
Low Power , SoC verification , perspec system verifier , Accellera , pss , portable stimulus

Breakfast Bytes

Computer History Museum History

The Computer History Museum (CHM) is on Shoreline Boulevard in Mountain View in one…

• 5 min read
computer history museum , chm , gwen bell , Breakfast Bytes , Gordon Bell

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: The New Virtuoso ADE Product Suite - Knowledge Resource Kit

Cadence introduced its new set of Virtuoso® ADE products, which includes Virtuoso…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Explorer , Rapid Adoption Kit , Analog Simulation , ADE , Mixed-Signal , welcome kit , knowledge resource kit , Virtuoso Analog Design Environment , Virtuoso , Spectre , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , mixed signal , Custom IC Design , Schematic , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

O Lord, Won't You Buy Me a Mercedes Benz...Truck

You hear a lot of talk about autonomous cars, but I've also heard many times that…

• 5 min read
autonomous trucks , mercedes-benz , convoying , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

An Academic View on How Tesla Will Not Win

Professor Markus Lienkamp, of Technische Universität München (roughly the MIT of…

• 8 min read
Automotive , German OEMs , Markus Lienkamp , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Introduction to Cadence USB Type-C VIP

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Asila Nahas describes the USB Type-C…

• less than a min read
Verification IP , Whiteboard Wednesdays , USB Type-C , VIP , USB , Type-C

Breakfast Bytes

BROADPWN: Attacking Smartphones through the Wi-Fi Chip

Do you have an iPhone? Did it suddenly update IoS at the end of last week? That's…

• 7 min read
aslr , dep , virus , android , Mobile World Congress , iOS , worm , broadpwn , malware

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview August 7th to 11th 2017

https://youtu.be/uIodpPVnsXM Coming from Cadence cafeteria patio (camera Sean…

• less than a min read
Automotive , 3d logic , electron , london science museum , bletchley park , Samsung , transistor , lithium ion , 3d nand flash , samsung sdi , battery

SoC and IP

Happy Birthday Tensilica

Yes, it’s Tensilica’s birthday! Twenty years ago today, on July 31, 1997, Tensilica…

• 2 min read
DSP , Chris Rowen , HiFi , Tensilica , vision

Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica Has the Same Birthday as Harry Potter

You probably know that Harry Potter's birthday is July 31st. As it happens, that…

• 5 min read

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Handy UI Enhancements in ADE Assembler & ADE Explorer

We have been busy working on several small UI enhancements for Assembler & Explorer…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , Explorer , ADE , Virtuoso , Analog Design Environment , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , ADE Assembler

Verification

X-Propagation: Xcelium Simulator’s X-prop Technology Ensures Deterministic Reset

All chips need to cold reset on every power-up. Warm resets, however, are a bit more…

• 2 min read
SystemVerilog , Functional Verification , xcelium , Reset , simulation

Breakfast Bytes

The Intel Museum

During the summer, while the living is easy and the fish are jumping, each Friday…

• 3 min read
Intel , business plan , microprocessor , Breakfast Bytes , intel museum

Verification

Moving to Xcelium Simulation? I’m Glad You Asked

Ready to take the next step in simulation technology with a true third-generation…

• 2 min read
performance , Self-Help , uvm , simvision , RAK , Multi-Core , Appnote , troubleshooting , simulation , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Secret Key Generation with Physically Unclonable Functions

Yesterday, I wrote about automotive security from a big-picture level. Today let…

• 4 min read
trng , physically unclonable function , puf , aes , prng.trivium , rijndael , Breakfast Bytes
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