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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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Frankenstein

"Hail to thee, blithe spirit! Bird thou never wert"...and Frankenstein. What do these…

• 3 min read

Breakfast Bytes

What's For Breakfast? Video Preview January 1st to 5th 2018

https://youtu.be/Xja6H1meqac Coming from Yosemite National Park (camera Carey…

• less than a min read
Intel , ces 2017 , Consumer Electronics Show , CES , GlobalFoundries , 7nm , 10nm

Breakfast Bytes

Why Don't Planes Obey Moore's Law?

In my post about Silexica ( Silexica: Mastering Multicore ) I said that I like to…

• 9 min read
great flight diagram , aeronautics , tennekes , flight , simple science of flight

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: From Hatchlings to Fledglings to a Flock of Birds Blogging Together

“The reason birds can fly and we can't is simply because they have perfect faith…

• 2 min read
Cadence blogs , Virtuoso , RF design , Virtuosity , Virtuoso Video Diary , CPG Technical Communications Engineering

Breakfast Bytes

Blue LEDs, Nobel Prizes, and IEDM Keynote

At IEDM last week, for the first time, there was a second plenary session (awards…

• 6 min read
gallium nitride , nobel prize , Wally Rhines , LED , blue led , gan , IEDM

Breakfast Bytes

Ploughing 1 TB of RAM with Twenty x86 Oxen and 10,000 RISC-V Chickens

OK, that wins the prize for best title of a presentation in the recent RISC-V workshop…

• 11 min read
risc-v , celerity , boom , picochip , risc-v foundation , esperanto , sifive

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - What to expect from TLM 2.0 Models for Memory Subsystems…

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Vivek Nandakumar explains the behavioral differences…

• less than a min read
Whiteboard Wednesdays , Memory , TLM 2.0

Breakfast Bytes

RISC-V Workshop, Milpitas

The latest semi-annual RISC-V workshop took place the week after Thanksgiving. The…

• 8 min read
Western Digital , risc-v , celerity , boom , picochip , risc-v foundation , esperanto , 16nm , 7nm

Learning and Support

What's New in Cadence Help 3.0?

I am sure you would agree when I say that a help tool is the one utility without…

• 3 min read
Self-Help , Cadence Help , Help resource , Cadence support

Breakfast Bytes

COTS? Commercial Products in US Government Electronics

COTS is government jargon for Commercial Off-The-Shelf. This means the government…

• 8 min read
us government , minsec , department of defense

The India Circuit

Four Exciting Examples of Modern AI from NVIDIA

A few months ago, we had the honor of having Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director of…

• 4 min read
artificial intelligence , deep learning , NVIDIA , machine learning , AI

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: SKILLful Virtuoso Visualization and Analysis

If you’re a SKILL enthusiast, you’ll be happy to know that the latest IC6.1.7 ISR…

• 4 min read
Analog Design Environment , ViVa-XL , custom/analog , Analog Simulation , SKILL for the Skilled , ADE , Virtuoso , ViVA , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design , SKILL , Cusstom IC Design

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IEDM 2017

The start of December means it is the International Electron Devices Meeting in San…

• 6 min read
Intel , copper beol , 3D IC , AMD , georgia tech , Samsung , TSMC , fanout wafer packaging , GlobalFoundries

Analog/Custom Design

Virtuosity: Can I Graphically Edit Width Spacing Patterns?

We have enhanced the editing modes available for WSPs. In addition to the text-based…

• 1 min read
Routing , Advanced Node , width spacing patterns , Layout , Virtuoso , Virtuosity , Custom IC Design

Academic Network

2017 Workshop on Electronic Design Automation in Tainan Taiwan

It was the third continuous year that Cadence Academic Network supported the Workshop…

• 1 min read
Taiwan , Cadence Academic Network , EDA

Breakfast Bytes

Greg Yeric and Rob Aitken Dive into the Details

The last day of TechCon had two keynotes rich in deeper technical content, from Greg…

• 6 min read
security , greg yeric , graphen , IoT , trillion devices , Rob Aitken , more than Moore , moore's law , power

Breakfast Bytes

Advanced Packaging Delivers More Than Moore

Moore's Law is running out of steam. Depending on your point of view, it is dead…

• 8 min read
FOWLP , advanced packaging , 3DIC , Virtuoso , OrbitIO , Innovus , 2.5D , Allegro

Digital Design

Get Early Silicon Learning to Accelerate Yield Ramp-up

How important is it for your advanced node products to get early silicon learning…

• 2 min read
DNA , pattern analysis , machine learning , silicon learning , yield , test chip , design for manufacturing , DFM

Whiteboard Wednesdays

Whiteboard Wednesdays - The Simplest Neural Network Explanation Ever - Part 2

In this week's Whiteboard Wednesday, Tom Hackett continues his explanation of neural…

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Whiteboard Wednesdays , neural networks
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