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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

Report From the 17th MTV Workshop in Austin

Austin is always a nice place to visit, and last week I spent a few days there to…

• 3 min read
security , Perspec , Safety , formal , workshop , SoC , Test , ISO 26262 , MTV , power , microprocessor , portable stimulus , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

OnDemand links to our Allegro PCB & PSpice 2016 Webinars and looking to 2017...

As we wrap up 2016, I wanted to share the quick access links to all of our OnDemand…

• 2 min read

Breakfast Bytes

Silicon Photonics

You probably already know that much of the traffic inside the data center, and indeed…

• 9 min read
mach zehnder interferometer , waveguide , fiber optic , ring coupler , light , silicon photonics , mode , Breakfast Bytes

System, PCB, & Package Design 

What’s Good About Allegro PCB Editor New Concurrent Team Design? New Capabilities…

The 17.2 Allegro PCB Editor has new concurrent team design capabilities. For details…

• 3 min read
PCB , Cadence Design Systems , Allegro 17.2 , Allegro GUI , PCB Editor , Layout , PCB design , Grzenia , Allegro PCB Editor , Allegro

Breakfast Bytes

Branko's Elephant Chart

There are several areas where semiconductor technology and society come together…

• 5 min read
branko's elephant chart , world bank , global income distribution , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Automotive Functional Safety and the ISO 26262 Standard

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the second in a three-part series, Charles…

• less than a min read
Automotive , Whiteboard Wednesdays , functional safety , automotive electronics , Charles Qi , ISO 26262

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Why Move Up to Allegro 17.2-2016? New Design Level Checks! (Reason 9 of 10)

The Allegro PCB 17.2-2016 release is loaded with enhancements related to the DRILL…

• 2 min read
Allegro 17.2 , PCB design , Allegro PCB Editor , Why Move Up to 17.2

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Introducing the New Search Functionality in Hierarchy Edit…

Are you still crawling through the set of tabs, panes, or tables in the Hierarchy…

• 2 min read
Search , HED , Virtuoso Video Diary , hierarchy editor

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V: Codasip, BaySand, and More

Recently the RISC-V Fifth Workshop took place at Google in Mountain View. As always…

• 3 min read
UltraSoC , risc-v , codasip , BaySand , Codeplay , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

Lip-Bu Tan Receives the Exemplary Leadership Award from GSA

Last week, Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO of Cadence, received the Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary…

• 5 min read
gas , cadence , fsa , fabless , TSMC , Lip-Bu Tan , morris change exemplary leadership award , Morris Chang , Breakfast Bytes

Academic Network

Meet the BarCamp Concept!

BarCamp was inspired by an invitation-only participant-driven conference, named Foo…

• 2 min read
virtual platforms , Cadence Academic Network , BarCamp , Formal AMS Verification , System-level Sensitivity Analysis , edaBarCamp , Highly distributed embedded platforms

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: 7nm from TSMC and IBM/GLOBALFOUNDRIES/Samsung

At IEDM last week, there were papers in eight parallel tracks for three days. At…

• 3 min read
IBM , Samsung , TSMC , 193i , FinFET , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , EUV , Breakfast Bytes

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuoso Video Diary: Using the New IE-Card Based Setup in ADE Explorer

Interface Element (IE) Setup can be one of the most challenging parts in AMS Designer…

• 5 min read
Analog Design Environment , ADE Explorer , AMS in ADE , AMS Designer , IE Card Setup , ADE , Virtuoso Video Diary

Breakfast Bytes

Tensilica at CES: Hololens Will Be There, Will You?

It's a new year soon. And that means New Year Resolutions. I will go to the gym.…

• 3 min read
hololens , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , vision processing , ADAS , autonomous vehicles , Breakfast Bytes , HiFi Audio

System, PCB, & Package Design 

How to Tailor Your PCB and IC Package Modeling With "Cut and Stitch" to Generate…

As an experienced SI expert, you likely apply multiple solvers and simulators to…

• 3 min read
3D full wave extraction , cut and stitch , Signal Integrity , serial link compliance , SerDes , Sigrity , PowerSI

Breakfast Bytes

Can Computers Think? Or Understand Chinese?

I have been working with computers for a long time. I first learned to program in…

• 5 min read
searle , artificial intelligence , Chinese room , Turing test , neural nets , Breakfast Bytes

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview December 12th to 16th

https://youtu.be/wtOOIg32ma8 Monday: Lip-Bu Tan is honored by GSA with the Maurice…

• less than a min read
risc-v , codasip , IBM , branko's elephant chart , Samsung , TSMC , gf , Lip-Bu Tan , silicon photonics , photonics , gsa , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , IEDM , maurice chang

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM: The Big Decisions for 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM there were two all-day short courses . The one I attended was…

• 6 min read
SADP , gas , contact liner , horizontal nanowire , lelele , lex , 193i lithography , cobalt , copper , contact , LELE , FinFET , 5nm , le2 , nanowire , vertical nanowire , le3 , EUV , IEDM , gate all around , Breakfast Bytes

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays—What's New with PCI Express Gen4

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, the last of a 3-part series, Lana Chan…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , PCIe Gen4 , PCIe
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