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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:Expression Builder - Now Plots ALL!

The Expression Builder has simplified writing complex expressions and has the ability…

• 2 min read
ADE Explorer , ADE , Expression Builder , Virtuoso , ViVA , Virtuosity , ADE Assembler

Breakfast Bytes

Running a Salesforce

I decided to run some posts on different areas of companies, and what I have found…

• 10 min read
sales , salesforce , business development , sales management

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Designing Data Bus with DDR5 Technology Today? Yes, It Is Possible!

Many system designers have been working with DDR4 RAM components in the past couple…

• 4 min read
ddr5 , AMI , Memory interface , IBIS , IBIS-AMI , DDR , Sigrity

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Improve High-Speed Serial Link Design with IBIS-AMI Backchannel Simulation

As signal integrity engineers, we know adaptive equalization is used in today’s multi…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , Backchannel Simulation , IBIS-AMI , SerDes , Sigrity , SystemSI

Verification

Cadence Collaborates with Test & Verification Solutions on Portable Stimulus

The Cadence® Connections® Verification Program brings together a worldwide network…

• 2 min read
CDNLive , Test , DVcon , pss , verification

System, PCB, & Package Design 

Dude, Where Are Your Files?

Let me tell you a funny story. We’ve been working with an outside research agency…

• 2 min read
Engineering Data Management , data management , Work in Process Data , Work in Progress Data , ECAD data , EDM , PCB design

Breakfast Bytes

Why You Shouldn't Trust Ken Thompson

I wrote yesterday about the two exploits, Spectre and Meltdown . I think that the…

• 7 min read
security , unix , thompson

The India Circuit

A Hackathon to Remember

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog about face recognition . Coincidentally, face recognition…

• 2 min read
Vishwakarma Institute of Technology , VLSI & Embedded Systems Design Conference , Tensilica , Tensilica Xtensa

Breakfast Bytes

Spectre and Meltdown: An Update

I wrote an extra Breakfast Bytes post a couple of weeks ago about Spectre and Meltdown…

• 10 min read
security , Intel , meltdown , AMD , x86 , Spectre , ARM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - Verification Challenges for SoCs Integrating PCI Express…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesdays video, Nick Heaton, Distinguished Engineer,…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , SoC , PCI Express , verification

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity and Virtuoso Video Diary: Onwards and Upwards

Looking back at 2017, I note with satisfaction that it was a phenomenal year of blogging…

• 3 min read
Cadence blogs , custom/analog , Virtuoso , RF design , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , Custom IC Design , Custom IC

Breakfast Bytes

IEDM Short Course: After 5nm

The Sunday of IEDM is always two full-day short courses. One is on the future of…

• 7 min read
feol , 5nm , beol , IEDM , DTCO

Verification

This Was 2017, Looking Forward 2018

With 2017 just out of the door, this is a good time to stop for a few minutes, look…

• less than a min read
Specman , Functional Verification

Breakfast Bytes

Mobile World Congress in One Keynote

It was CES last week. Generally, this is not an event about mobile, mainly because…

• 8 min read
5G , baidu , CES2018 , Verizon , Qualcomm , mobile

Breakfast Bytes

CES Keynotes: Cars, Flying Cars, Dancers, Music, Lights...and Sustainability

As I said yesterday , it was the Consumer Electronics Show this week. I attended…

• 10 min read
quantum computing , Automotive , Intel , CES , Ford

Verification

CRAFTing Your Aero/Defense UVM Testbench the Easy Way

So you want to build an automated testbench for your aero/defense project, eh? Luckily…

• 2 min read
Functional Verification , VWB , online tool , automated testbench , craft

Breakfast Bytes

CES Review: Rain...and Some Consumer Electronics

I have been at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) all week. For 116 days through…

• 7 min read
Automotive , Consumer Electronics , CES , CES2018 , virtual reality , augmented reality

System, PCB, & Package Design 

SI Methodology for Multi-Gigabit Serial Link Interfaces (5 of 8)

Efficient Interconnect Extraction Once physical layout is complete, (or at least…

• 3 min read
Serial link analysis , SI , Multi-Gigabit , Interconnect Extraction , IBIS-AMI , Signal Integrity , SerDes , Sigrity

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 15th to 19th 2018

https://youtu.be/MPkAPCQyFvY Coming from Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas…

• less than a min read
5G , meltdown , ken thompson , JUG , CES2018 , Spectre , 5nm , what's for breakfast? , JasperGold
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