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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 Samuel
• 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

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

Verification

ROHM CO., Ltd Adopts Our Functional Safety Verification Solution

On July 17, 2017, Cadence announced that the Cadence® Functional Safety Verification…

• less than a min read
functional safety , Functional Verification , ROHM Co. , press release , ISO 26262

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Empowering Learning: New Learning – Cadence Allegro and OrCAD Release17.2-2016

Interested in an easy-to-use, collaborative, and robust design-environment that reduces…

• 1 min read
Allegro Design Entry , Allegro 17.2 , AMS simulator , OrCAD Capture , Capture CIS , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2 , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

One Thing Could Shut Down this Party—Automotive Cybersecurity

Ofer Ben Noon, CEO and co-founder of Argus Cybersecurity, had the job of raining…

• 4 min read
security , Automotive , Wannacry , Automotiv Elektronik Kongress , Argus Cybersecurity , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - What is Post-Package Repair for LPDDR4 Memories?

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg describes the post-package…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , DDR4 , LPDDR4

Learning and Support

What to Expect from Each Collateral on Cadence Support Portal and How to Access …

Undoubtedly, the most important component of any online portal is CONTENT and its…

• 3 min read
Self-Help , videos , RAK , Application Notes , troubleshooting , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

Meet the Newest Member of the Tensilica Family, the HiFi 3z DSP

As NVIDIA's Jensen Huang pointed out a few weeks ago, and I covered in my blog post…

• 4 min read
linley group , HiFi , hifi 3z , Tensilica , Breakfast Bytes , linley iot conference

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 31st to August 4th 2017

https://youtu.be/9bkl9KLReDI Coming from hyperspace (camera Sean, editing me…

• less than a min read
autonomous trucks , 3D transistors , Samsung , mercedes-benz , imec , batteries , tesla , samsung sdi , computer history museum , itf

Verification

Xperiences with Xcelium: Hewett-Packard Enterprise Makes the Switch

At Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE), the team working to create IP for “The Machine…

• 1 min read
Functional Verification , xcelium , hp enterprise

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Are You Maximizing Your Product Design? See How a Custom ASIC Can Help

When you push more of your board into high-performance design fabric like an SoC…

• 1 min read
ASIC , cadence hosted design solutions , designstart , ARM

Breakfast Bytes

NVIDIA's Jensen Huang on Accelerating the Race to Autonomous Cars

Jensen (Jen-Hsun) Huang is CEO of NVIDIA. If you know anything about NVIDIA, it is…

• 5 min read
Automotive , NVIDIA , nvidia drive , ADAS , jensen huang , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Short Papers

Yesterday my post was Cadence Academic Network Asia and it was just what it says…

• 4 min read
zero word paper , shortest thesis , david rector , john conway , dennis upper , kurt gödel , john nash , shortest paper , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Cadence Academic Network Asia

I sat down with Tracy Zhu to find out about the academic network in Asia Pacific…

• 4 min read
China , Taiwan , Cadence Academic Network , Breakfast Bytes , university program

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview July 24th to 28th 2017

https://youtu.be/Dgy8LrCe13s Coming from the Intel Museum (camera Sean) …

• less than a min read
Automotive , NVIDIA , nvidia drive , IoT , puf , secret key generation , cybersecurity , jensen huang , intel museum

Breakfast Bytes

Bosch: Future of Connected Mobility

At the conference in Ludwigsburg that I attended, Volkmar Denner, head of management…

• 5 min read
5G , Automotive , Bosch , ludwigsburg , ADAS , automobil elektronik kongress , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Understanding the In-line ECC Architecture Required by LPDDR4…

In this week’s Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Marc Greenberg explains the difference…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , LPDDR4

Verification

Enum compatibility error in Specman

One of my favorite quotes about SW programming is the following by Edsger Dijkstra…

• 4 min read
enumerator , Specman , Incisive , e language , xcelium , verification

Breakfast Bytes

The Four Ts: Trade, Tax, Talent and Technology Funding

If you work in the semiconductor industry, and you probably do if you are reading…

• 6 min read
semicon , semi , technology funding , trade , talent , Breakfast Bytes , tax
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